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  Country Profiles of Land Tenure: Africa, 1996

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998

  These Country Profiles represent a new edition of a continent-wide set of profiles prepared and published by the Land Tenure Center in 1986. This new volume reflects a decade of intensive work on the continent by LTC and a very considerable deepening of knowledge and understanding of land tenure issues in Africa.
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  Peasant Cotton Cultivation and Marketing Behaviour in Tanzania since Liberalisation

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Discusses the debate around structural adjustment and African agriculture, the history of the Tanzanian cotton sector and farming systems in the main cotton growing area of the country before reporting the results of a small survey of cultivators carried out at the end of the 1997/8 seed cotton marketing season.
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  Social and economic incentives for smallholder tree growing: A Case Study from Murang'a District, Kenya

  Forests, Trees and People Programme and Network, FAO - SLU, 1995

  Seeks to provide a better understanding of the economic framework of smallholder agriculture in Kenya, particularly in relation to tree growing management and practices.
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  Impact of Access to Credit on the Poor: Research Design and Baseline Survey for a Longitudinal Study

  Banking with the Poor Network, 1998

  Presents the baseline survey for a study of the impact of microfinance services offered by Alalay sa Kaunlaran sa Gitnang Luzon, Inc (ASKI). ASKI is a microfinance institution based in Cabanatuan City in the Philippines, and is a member of the BWTP Network.The baseline survey is the first step in a longitudinal process.
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  What's Special About Wildlife Management In Forests?: Concepts And Models Of Rights-Based Management, With Recent Evidence From West-Central Africa

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  Wildlife consumption is an integral part of the livelihood and trade patterns of many peoples in the developing world, and highly valued by them. Yet to date the dominant models of wildlife management in areas of high – and allegedly unsustainable – consumptive use have favoured the exclusion of the users from the resource and the denial of its local values.
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  Self-Governance and Forest Resources

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1999

  Outline of theory on community-based institutions and IFPRI’s ongoing efforts to test empirically the theory’s relevance for forest management.Destruction or degradation of forest resources is most likely to occur in open-access forests where those involved, or external authorities, have not established effective governance.
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  Entering the 21st Century: World Development Report 1999/2000

  World Development Report, World Bank, 1999

  Localization—the growing economic and political power of cities, provinces, and other sub-national entities—will be one of the most important new trends in the 21st century.
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  Property rights, collective action and technologies for natural resource management: a conceptual framework

  CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 1998

  Explores how the institutions of property rights and collective action play a particularly important role in the application of technologies for agricultural and natural resource management.Technologies with long time frames tend to require tenure security to provide sufficient incentives for adoption, while those that operate on a large spatial scale will require collective action to coordinat
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  Forest cleansing: racial oppression in scientific nature conservation

  The Corner House, UK, 1999

  Article looks at a specific case of racial oppression manifesting itself within development programs. At a more general level, the article looks at how ecological project can become politicised.An example of this is South-East Asia, where valley-based states have regularly attempted to sedentarize or repress hill-dwelling ethnic minorities.
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  Who's managing the commons: inclusive mangement for a sustainable future

  Drylands Programme, IIED, 2000

  This article discusses what is the best means of managing the commons. The article stresses that these are critical questions in the current wave of decentralisation and tenure reform taking place in many Sahelian states.

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