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

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  Land rights in crisis: restoring tenure security in Afghanistan

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2003

  This paper summarises the findings of a short exercise to identify land issues in present-day Afghanistan.
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  Tenure security and land-related investment: evidence from Ethiopia

  World Bank Publications, 2003

  Report finds that land rights in Ethiopia are highly insecure, and higher tenure security and transferability could enhance investment and agricultural productivity.
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  Tides shift on agrarian reform: new movements show the way

  Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2001

  This paper first introduces the concept of land redistribution of land through agrarian reform, that would allow for a more inclusive model of development. The author then demonstrates how land concentration leads to displacement (migration) of rural populations, and as a consequence increased pressure in urban centres.
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  Forest certification: enhancing social forestry developments?

  Mekonginfo, 2001

  The author begins by providing a brief overview of the concept and reasoning behind certification of forest products. She states that, at the outset, one of the aims of certification was to provide market access and other benefits for small-scale, low-impact, community run ‘eco-timber’ projects.
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  Civil society and governance case study of land distribution programme to Kol tribals in Chitrakot district Uttar Pradesh

  Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000

  The Kol tribals of Chitrakoot district live a life of abject poverty, exploitation and almost complete subjugation to the feudal landowners, locally known as Dadus. A local civil society organisation, the Akhil Bhartiya Samaj Sewa Sansthan (ABSSS) has adopted a multi-pronged approach to simultaneously address three sets of issues which it felt were crucial for improving the lot of the Kols.
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  Civil society and the struggle for land rights for marginalised groups: the contribution of the Uganda Land Alliance to the Land Act 1998

  Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000

  The 1998 Land Act represents one of the most important pieces of legislation in Uganda, which is predominantly an agricultural country. The role of a consortium of NGOs, The Uganda Land Alliance (ULA), is analysed in this paper, with regard to the enactment of the Act.
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  National forest programme: forestland tenure systems in Tanzania

  Tanzania Online, 2001

  This paper begins by exploring the history of tenure in Tanzania's forests. It states that, while the government has retained ownership of forests centrally; locally, people have used forest resources without restriction.
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  Rural land management in Zambia: the need for institutional and land tenure reforms

  Land Rights in Africa, Oxfam, 2002

  This study contends that Zambia cannot develop if it neglects policy for the efficient utilization of its natural resources.
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  Agriculture and deforestation in tropical Asia: an analytical framework

  Mekonginfo, 2001

  Utilises a number of situations observed in tropical Asia to motivate a simple trade-theoretical analysis of the implications of technological progress in agriculture.
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  Land management in Ghana: building on tradition and modernity

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001

  An overlap in the regulation of access to land and resources between customary and state management systems is causing problems of contradiction and conflict. This report analyses the pros and cons of both systems and makes a series of recommendations.State administration of land is found to have worked against poorer elements in Ghana.

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