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  Land theme paper (sustainable livelihoods)

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000

  This paper examines the challenges of institutional, organisational and policy reform around land in Southern Africa. It analyses the land situation in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and identifies key issues for further research in each of these countries. Findings include:
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  The politics of water: a Southern African example

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This report examines the political contradictions embedded in water reform processes across different levels in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique. It argues that implementing ideas on water reform often borrowed from extremely different contexts is not an automatic and unproblematic process, but involves complex local political negotiation.
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  Caught in the act: new stakeholders, decentralisation and water management processes in Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This study focuses on the experience of water resource governance in one main river basin in Zimbabwe, the Save.
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  Public participation in national biotechnology policy and biosafety regulation

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper explores the challenges entailed in applying the principles and methods of public participation to national and international policy processes.
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  Water points and water policies: decentralisation and community management in Sangwe communal area, Zimbabwe

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper examines the institutions governing access to borehole water in two wards in Sangwe communal area in Chiredzi District, Zimbabwe. The study examines the contrasting institutional dynamics that have evolved, particularly around borehole committees, as a result of the community-based approach to water management promoted in recent years.
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  Rights and risk: challenging biotechnology policy in Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper looks at how a rights based approach can be applied to biotechnology policy. Drawing on the experience of Zimbabwe and other countries in southern Africa, this paper argues that a risk based approach to biotechnology regulation creates an artificial divide between civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights.
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  From Jambanja to planning: the reassertion of technocracy in land reform in southeastern Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper examines the land occupations and fast track resettlement process in Chiredzi District in Zimbabwe’s southeast lowveld.The main findings include:rather than constituting a descent into anarchy, the state bureaucracy has been able to enact a rapid return to ‘technocratic type’, if this ever went awayeven during the most violent and chaotic farm invasions during the ‘time o
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  Seeds in a globalised world: agricultural biotechnology in Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper looks at what biotechnology might mean for agricultural and food production systems in Zimbabwe and looks at some of the strategic questions that lie behind decisions to go the GM route in agriculture.Several factors are identified and discussed including:technology choiceissues of technology access and ownershipthe role of new farmers emerging as a result of land ref
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  New politics, new livelihoods: changes in the Zimbabwean lowveld since the farm occupations of 2000

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper focuses on the political dynamics and livelihood implications of farm occupations and 'fast-track' land reform in Chiredzi district, southeast Zimbabwe.
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  The crisis of land distribution in Southern Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Those who led southern African states to independence promised to redress the inequalities of settler colonialism by returning the land to the people. A generation later the rural poor are still waiting. Many lack access and full rights to agricultural land and, as developments in Zimbabwe and South Africa show, they are getting angry. Where did post-independence land reform policy go wrong?

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