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  Economic Valuation Of Communal Rangelands In Botswana: A Case Study

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 1998

  Aims to estimate the annual direct use value of an average hectare of the communal rangeland in Botswana, based on an anlalysis of secondary data. Exercise incorporates the three major direft uses, both marketed and non-marketed, of rangelands: livestock, wildlife and gathering
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  Recent FAO experiences in land reform and land tenure

  Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, 1997

  Brief summary of FAO’s experience in agrarian reform and the most relevant activities of the current programme related to this field. It argues that the type of agrarian reform that considers the redistribution of land from the rich to the poor either through confiscation or through pre-emptive buyouts belongs to the past.
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  A critical analysis of the causes of world food insecurity

  Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, 1997

  Although world food and agricultural production, based on current trends, should be sufficient to meet demand in the decades ahead, the world still faces a serious food crisis that is as dangerous and life-threatening for millions of poor people today as in the past.
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  Private and communal property rights in rangeland and forests in Uganda

  Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, 1998

  The present land tenure situation in Uganda is essentially the result of four factors: customary tenure practices, the mailo tenure system introduced under the British colonial administration, the Land Reform Decree passed by Idi Amin’s government in 1975, and the disrupting social order under the Amin regime and during the period following its downfall.
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  Private and communal property ownership regimes in Tanzania

  Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, 1998

  Tanzania’s well-known village establishment programme, which is called Ujamaa , allowed for the sedentarization of almost all rural residents in some 8 000 villages in the 1970s.
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  After land reform, the market?

  Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, 1998

  The ultimately disappointing results of past redistributive reforms caused contemporary policy-makers in Latin America to search for alternatives. In recent years, the issue of transforming tenure structure through the market mechanism has moved into the spotlight. This paper argues that it is extremely helpful to approach the topic from an institutional perspective.
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  Land access, off - farm income and capital access in relation to the reduction of rural poverty

  Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, 1998

  The current framework of economic growth and development includes a general trend towards the privatization of land rights and a collapse of collective structures in agriculture as well as a move towards reliance on land markets as the means of peasant access to participation in the development process.
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  Poverty alleviation : the role of rural institutions and participation

  Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, 1997

  Most approaches to poverty alleviation focus on income and subsidy measures; however, there is a growing realization that these measures alone are not sufficient. The growing amount of literature on the important role that “social capital” and institutions play in the development process indicates that there is a social-institutional dimension as well.
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  Rising Wealth Inequality and Changing Social Structure in Rural China, 1988-95

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 1999

  Finds that a new system of social stratification is emerging in rural China as a result of economic reforms, that is far less equal than what preceeded it. As part of this trend, wealth inequality has increased, markedly in a short period of time.
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  Access to land and land policy reforms

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001

  The objective of the research that this policy brief reports on is to analyse different mechanisms of access to land for the rural poor in an era when redistribution through expropriative land reform is largely inconsistent with the forces of political economy.

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