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    Agriculture and deforestation in tropical Asia: an analytical framework

    Mekonginfo, 2001
    Utilises a number of situations observed in tropical Asia to motivate a simple trade-theoretical analysis of the implications of technological progress in agriculture.
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    A survey of indigenous land tenure: a report for the Land Tenure Service of the FAO

    Forest Peoples Programme, 2001
    This study provides a concise overview of the information available on the land rights of indigenous peoples, with a focus on those in developing countries and countries with economies in transition. Successive chapters summarise the rights of indigenous peoples in international law and then examine how these rights are being recognised, or not, in Latin America, Africa and the Asia-Pacific.
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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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    Land rights under pressure: access to resources in southern Benin

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001
    Analyses the range of institutional arrangements being used for gaining access to land and natural resources in two regions of southern Benin.
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    Land management in Ghana: building on tradition and modernity

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001
    An overlap in the regulation of access to land and resources between customary and state management systems is causing problems of contradiction and conflict. This report analyses the pros and cons of both systems and makes a series of recommendations.State administration of land is found to have worked against poorer elements in Ghana.
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    Negotiating rights: access to land in the cotton zone, Burkina Faso

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001
    The paper examines how derived rights have evolved through settlement, loan, rental or purchase contracts and how these arrangements have developed as a result of national policy and socio-economic history. It goes on to examine how the unique circumstances of "established" and "pioneer" farming areas show differing patterns of change in arrangements over time.
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    Making property in the Taos valleys

    Polson Institute for Global Development at Cornell University, 2001
    This article emphasises that society makes property and that when one society is displaced by another it often is the case that existing property arrangements are recast to favor the newcomers and disadvantage the former inhabitants.
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    Land, people and forests in Eastern and Southern Africa: a study of the impact of land relations upon community involvement in forest future

    Land Rights in Africa, Oxfam, 2000
    Examines the relationship of people’s rights in land to the manner in which they may be involved in the management of forests in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Lesotho and to a lesser degree Botswana and Swaziland.Includes examination of property relations, state power, land reform, recognition of customary rights, the changing nature o
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    Securing customary land tenure in Africa: alternative approaches to the local recording and registration of land rights: report of workshop held at IIED

    Land Rights in Africa, Oxfam, 2000
    Series of papers on land tenure issues including: Piloting local administration of records in Ekuthuleni, KwaZulu-Natal, by Donna Hornby (AFRA, South Africa)Ivory Coast’s Plan Foncier Rural: lessons from a pilot project to register customary rights, by Camilla Toulmin (IIED) Customary land identification and recording in Mozambique, by Chris Tanner Supporting local rights:
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    Report of a donor consultative meeting on land policy issues

    Land Rights in Africa, Oxfam, 2001
    Report on a donor consultative meeting at the World Bank on land policy lessons learned and new challenges for the World Bank’s development agenda. Contains background, areas of donor agreement, outstanding issues and outcomes. The greatest controversy continued to centre around market assisted land reform.

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