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  Pastoral land tenure and agricultural expansion: Sudan and the Horn of Africa

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 1999

  Examines the particular case of Sudan, but suggests the discussion is relevant to the countries of the African Horn in general and Southern Ethiopia in particular.
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  Land ownership and foreigners: a comparative analysis of regulatory approaches to the acquisition and use of land by foreigners

  Legal Office, FAO, 1999

  Foreign ownership of land has historically been a sensitive political issue,and measures to regulate or restrict the practice in one form or another have figured prominently in national land laws. The study by Hodgson, Cullinan and Campbell provides an overview of the various regulatory approaches that have been devised to deal with this issue.
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  The political economy of land acquisition and redistribution in Zimbabwe, 1990-1999

  Southern African Regional Institute for Policy Studies, Zimbabwe, 2000

  Paper systematically evaluates the political economy of Zimbabwe's emerging land policy in the 1990s in the context of other land reform programmes in Southern Africa. Looks at: the background to the land reform process in the 1990s the government's consistency in addressing the land question through an empirical evaluation of the outcome of its efforts to identify land to be acquir
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  The land question and land reform in Southern Africa

  Southern African Regional Institute for Policy Studies, Zimbabwe, 2000

  This paper discusses the nature of the land problem in the region and tries to situate the general land reform process in Zimbabwe within a regional context.It examines the four key land problems facing the region the discriminatory and insecure forms of land tenure that are found among variouslandownership regimes the increasingly imbalanced landownership structures and factors un
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  Reassessing Kenya's land reform

  Institute of Economic Affairs, Kenya, 2000

  This article discusses issues surrounding land reform in Kenya. As the nature of land reforms is as yet undecided, disparate suggestions and proposals are being considered. These include:Land Ownership Ceilings. There are vast inequalities in land ownership.
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  Land reform bulletin [2000-2002]

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2001

  Articles in this edition develop several areas and introduce specific experiences relating to land reform. The main thread running through the articles is that of change; how we can help to understand what change means and how it can be managed.
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  Rural women’s access to land in Latin America

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999

  Paper addresses the following concerns:rural women have limited access to and control of landmost agrarian reforms and legislation that directly or indirectly regulate access to land discriminate against womenthe establishment of legal frameworks with a gender perspective and the elimination of cultural and institutional factors that prevent the recognition of women as producers ar
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  Enhancing rural Livelihoods through Participatory Watershed Development in India

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  India is remarkable not only in the scale of its wastelands, and in the volume of government funds committed to reversing degradation, but especially in the attempt to link environmental improvement and poverty reduction.
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  Rural livelihood diversity in developing countries: evidence and policy implications

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  Examines livelihood diversification as a survival strategy of rural households in developing countries. Although still of central importance, farming on its own is increasingly unable to provide a sufficient means of survival in rural areas.
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  Key sheets for sustainable livelihoods

  Department for International Development, UK, 1998

  Aim of this series to provide a reference point for DFID decision-making about various aspects of service delivery and resource management. The series will also analyse different aspects of the policy process and options for donor intervention. Issues covered are:

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