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  Law, property rights, and social exclusion: a capabilities and entitlements approach to legal pluralism

  Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2002

  What are the effects of trends away from legal pluralism towards more uniform approaches to the law? This paper analyses the effects of legal changes in property rights for people's welfare and development in India.
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  Better livelihoods for poor people: the role of land policy

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This DFID consultation paper examines the importance of land, land rights and land reform in developing countries, and considers how land policies can contribute to poverty reduction and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
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  The case of Kok Hin Khao land rights conflicts in Nam Phong district of Khon Kaen - Thailand

  Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000

  This paper is a report on anthropological fieldwork on the civil society movements in northeastern Thailand.
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  Protest against the acquisition of common grazing land in Kadadara Panchayat, Gujarat

  Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000

  Local governance has become increasingly significant as devolution from central and provincial levels is being attempted in India as a result of the enactment of the 73rd and 74th Amendment of the Constitution in 1993.
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  Rural land management in Zambia: the need for institutional and land tenure reforms

  Land Rights in Africa, Oxfam, 2002

  This study contends that Zambia cannot develop if it neglects policy for the efficient utilization of its natural resources.
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  Getting the lion's share from tourism: private sector-community partnerships in Namibia.

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001

  In a number of developing countries, partnerships between the private sector and local communities are becoming more and more common, especially as communities are increasingly gaining rights to wildlife and other valuable tourism assets on their land through national policy changes on land tenure.
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  From relief to recovery: rebuilding Afghanistan

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This issue focuses on the economic, social and instiutional restructuring required in Afghanistan to achieve food security and justice.The major areas of action required include:the revival of Afghan agricultureaffirmative actions to restore Afghan women’s rightseducation to develop human capital The articles included are:From relief to recovery: rebuilding Afgha
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  The privatization process of rangeland and its impacts on pastoral dynamics in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya: the case of Western Sichuan, China

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 1999

  This article disucsses the effects of the last four decades of change in China in relation to traditional Tibetan pastoral production systems.
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  Kazakh nomads, rangeland policy, and the environment in Altay: insights from new range ecology

  Department of Applied and International Economics, Massey University, 2001

  This paper considers the degree of environmental variability in an extensive pastoral area of Altay, northern Xinjiang (China); assesses the extent to which institutional arrangements are able to accommodate environmental variability, and discusses the implications of this for rangeland policy.The article finds that:there is some inter-temporal variation in rangeland productivity (in pa
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  The potential for rangeland development in Yak rearing areas of the Tibetan Plateau

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2000

  This paper initially highlights the general characteristics of rangelands and pastoral production systems of the Tibetan Plateau.The article finds that:given the realities of life in a heterogeneous and marginal environment, the issue of secure resource tenure, both customary and legal, is fundamental for effective rangeland managementa simple shift in tenure from the communal (trad

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