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    Land Reform in the shadow of the State: the implementation of new land laws in sub-Saharan Africa

    Land Rights in Africa, Oxfam, 2000
    Focuses on the problems of implementing new land laws in Africa, with particular emphasis on those in Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa. Includes background, the policy environment, implementors, accommodative non-state land reform, and radical non-state land reform
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    Land tenure reform and the balance of power in eastern and southern Africa

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000
    This paper examines the current wave of land tenure reform in eastern and southern Africa. It discusses how far tenure reform reflects a shift in powers over property from centre to periphery.
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    Redistributive land reform in Southern Africa

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2001
    Redistributive land reform in southern Africa is reviewed against the background of the recent land crisis in the region. The dilemmas created for governments and donors are described, as are attempts to grapple with them. Answers are sought to four questions: What has been the experience with land redistribution in the region over the last decade or so?
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    Herders and common property in evolution: an example from central Italy

    Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2001
    This article discusses the transhumant pastoralists of the Abruzzo highlands of central Italy. The article indicates that this system of production depended, and still depends, on the availability of communal grazing areas where access is open to all local residents and management is joint.
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    Displaced communities and the reconstruction of livelihoods in Eritrea

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
    Paper focuses on the resettlement of people displaced by Eritrea's 30 year liberation war. However, Eritrea's 1998-2000 war with Ethiopia poses new reconstruction problems which are only now emerging.
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    Limiting livestock pressure on public rangeland in Niger

    Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1986
    The present paper is based on a participatory survey carried out in order to establish baseline information on a little known livestock production system and its role in local ecology and economy.The study is based on research in El Kala National Park (North East Algeria).This paper draws attention to some of the problems that arise in understanding the cost and benefit flows in pastoralist system
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    Enclosure if the East African rangelands: recent trends and their impact

    Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1988
    This article discusses the enclosure of rangelands and registration of exclusive rights to grazing by individuals or groups of pastoralists. This trend has been increasing greatly over the last twenty years. This occurs because:it is encouraged by governments, planners and multi-lateral donor agencies in an attempt to 'rationalise'the use of rangelands.
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    Land reform: new seeds on old ground?

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999
    Following initial enthusiasm in the post-war period, land reform fell out of favour with donors from the early 1970s. Nonetheless, sporadic efforts to redistribute land continued: Ethiopia in 1975, Zimbabwe in 1980 and a renewed commitment to land reform in the Philippines in 1988.
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    Private and communal land tenure in Morocco's western High Atlas mountains: complements, not ideological opposites

    Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1989
    In Morocco's Western High Atlas Mountains, Berber agropastoralists are oblivious to the ideological debate over land tenure occurring in the rangeland development community. Berber producers of sheep and goats use a continuum of tenure institutions, from private ownership, to communal control, to uncontrolled, open range.
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    Aspects of resource conflict in semi-arid Africa

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999
    The present century has seen a significant real increase in resource conflict in semi-arid Africa. The most important causes of this are human population increase and the globalisation of the economy. Such conflicts reflect both point resources (mines, farms, reserves) and ecozonal conflicts (water, grazing and hunting rights).

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