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  Grappling with land reform in pastoral Namibia

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1992

  This article discusses the history of land reform in Namibia. The article indicates that at the time of writing (September 1991), it is still too early to comment on the implementation of land reform in Namibia, as it has not yet begun in earnest.
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  The controversy surrounding eucalypts in social forestry programs of Asia

  National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1997

  Social forestry emerged amidst important changes in thinking about the role of forestry in rural development and a growing need for fuelwood. In an attempt to alleviate the fuelwood crisis, the World Bank encouraged the planting of Eucalyptus species in its social forestry programs in the 1980s.
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  Poverty and Environment: Turning the Poor into Agents of Environmental Regeneration

  Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998

  The poor adapt and learn to live with poverty in a variety of ways. They also try to cope with shocks from events such as droughts, floods and loss of employment. Environmental resources play a vital role in their survival strategies. As the poor depend on environmental resources, one can expect them to have a stake in their preservation. Much of the damage done to natural resources is by others.
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  Multiple Uses of Common Pool Resources in Semi-Arid West Africa: A Survey of Existing Practices and Options for Sustainable Resource Management

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Common pool resources such as rangeland, forests, fallow fields and ponds provide an array of social and economic benefits for a wide variety of users in semi-arid west Africa. However, poor definition and enforcement of the institutional arrangements governing the use of these resources sometimes lead to social conflicts and resource degradation.
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  Self-Governance and Forest Resources

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1999

  Outline of theory on community-based institutions and IFPRI’s ongoing efforts to test empirically the theory’s relevance for forest management.Destruction or degradation of forest resources is most likely to occur in open-access forests where those involved, or external authorities, have not established effective governance.
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  Who's managing the commons: inclusive mangement for a sustainable future

  Drylands Programme, IIED, 2000

  This article discusses what is the best means of managing the commons. The article stresses that these are critical questions in the current wave of decentralisation and tenure reform taking place in many Sahelian states.
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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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  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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  Sustaining livelihoods on Mongolia's pastoral commons

  International Association for the Study of Common Property, 2000

  Under the socialist regime that prevailed until the start of the 1990s, Mongolia made great progress in improving human development indicators, and poverty was virtually unknown.

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