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How land reform can contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction: empirical evidence from international and Zimbabwean experience
Land Rights in Africa, Oxfam, 2000Examines international evidence on the relationship between asset ownership and growth and the impact of redistributive land reform, plus evidence of the impact of land reform in Zimbabwe.Asks why it appears that resettled farmers are among the poorest in the population.DocumentLand policy: its importance and emerging lessons from Southern Africa
Land Rights in Africa, Oxfam, 2000With examples from throughout Southern Africa, this paper examines the objectives, impetus, importance, principles and important elements of a land policythe policy development process and policy implementationthe relevance of a national land policy for Uganda and emerging lessons [author]Paper presented at the Uganda Land Alliance Workshop on Land Tenure and Land Use PDocumentRecent Developments in Land Tenure Law in Eritrea, Horn of Africa
Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000Describes the main features of the new Eritrean land law and its operative assumption that the legislation is meant to extend state control over land.The legal devices employed by the law are widely used in sub-Saharan Africa (and were largely inspired by colonial policies).DocumentAssessing the relationship between property rights and technology adoption in smallholder agriculture: a review of issues & empirical methods
CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2000This paper identifies key issues and develops guidelines for conducting research on the relationships between property rights and technology adoption in smallholder agriculture.The topics addressed in the paper are: definition of scope and termskey issues pertaining to the relationships between technology adoption and property rights variables data collection and measurement issDocumentIs there scope for growth with equity?: the case of land reform in South Africa
School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2000Development economists have long aimed to identify programs and policies that can, by simultaneously improving equity and efficiency, foster sustainable growth. Land reform provides a classical example for such a programme.DocumentAn international guide to organizations generating information on conflicts over natural resources
Society for International Development, 2001Guide finding information on the web about conflicts over natural resources and related matters. More than 90 organizations have being identified and classified according to main sectors of activities, (land, forests, water, fisheries) and geographical scope, etc.DocumentNotions of rights over land and the history of Mongolian pastoralism
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 2000This article explores the history of notions of land ownership among Mongolian pastoralists in a historical context.In the 1990s the Mongolian state implemented a series of reforms designed to create a competitive market economy based on private property. These included the wholesale privatisation of the pastoral economy and the dissolution of the collective and state farms.DocumentReforming land and real estate markets
Global Solidarity, 2001This article discusses the World Bank's efforts to reform land and real estate markets. It argues that World Bank supported efforts at land and real estate reform have had too narrow a technical focus, at the expense of institutional reform.DocumentWomen's land and property rights in situations of conflict and reconstruction
United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2001Despite advances in the international rights regime, persistent discrimination evident in the customary laws which regulate women's status in most traditional societies was a constant factor across cultural, social and political divides.