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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Land tenure, Communal land

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  From liability to asset: Wildlife in the Omay Communal Land of Zimbabwe. [Campfire Programme]

  Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources, 1999

  [This document is hosted by Resource Africa]
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  Land degradation, stocking rates and conservation policies in the communal rangelands of Botswana and Zimbabwe

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1990

  This article suggests that communual rangeland management policies in Botswana and Zimbabwe are based on incorrect technical assumptions about the stability of semiarid rangelands, the nature of rangeland degradation, and the benefits of destocking.
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  The economic role of cattle in communal farming systems in Zimbabwe

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1992

  This paper is concerned with understanding cattle production in Zimbabwe's Communal Lands, in so-called communal farming systems. Although commercial offtake from Zimbabwe's communal cattle herd is low, communal farmers are productive and rational in their cattle herd management.
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  Environmental Problems in Southeast Asia: Property Regimes as Cause and Solution

  IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 1997

  Brief paper on the role of property rights in the economic analysis of environmental problems in Southeast Asia. First talks about the causal role of property rights in the existence of environmental problems, then how property rights must be incorporated into the economic analyses of these problems.
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  Liberal Contracts, Relational Contracts and Common Property: Africa and the United States

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998

  The core thesis is that Western neoclassical economics and law (particularly Anglo-American) have a peculiar cultural history that biases Western-trained economists and lawyers against common property systems like those found among Africans and American Indians.
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  Ownership and control in Chinese rangeland management since Mao: The case of free riding in Ningxia

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1996

  With the introduction of rural reforms in the early 1980s, China broke with its collectivist past and began the arduous transition from a centrally planned to a free market economy.
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  Comments on PDN papers 29a (Abel and Blaikie 1990) and 28b (Scoones 1989)

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1990

  This document contains a collection of critical comments by experts working in the field of pastoralism with regard to several PDN papers.
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  Social Exclusion and Land Administration in Orissa, India

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Examines—from the perspective of transaction costs—factors that constrain access to land for the rural poor and other socially excluded groups in India. They find that: Land reform has reduced large landholdings since the 1950s. Medium-size farms have gained most. Formidable obstacles still prevent the poor from gaining access to land.
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  Recent Developments in Land Tenure Law in Eritrea, Horn of Africa

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000

  Describes 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).
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  Notions of rights over land and the history of Mongolian pastoralism

  Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 2000

  This 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.

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