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  Rehabilitation of degraded lands in Sub-Saharan Africa: lessons learned from selected case studies

  European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2004

  This synthesis document brings together the findings of African forest scientists operating under the umbrella of the Forestry Research Network of Sub-Saharan Africa who compiled case studies of land rehabilitation from all major ecological regions in Western- Eastern and Southern Africa.
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  State courts and the regulation of land disputes in Ghana: the litigants’ perspective

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper argues that Ghanaian litigants in land disputes favour authoritative state legal-institutions over out-of-court settlements.
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  Bringing equality home: promoting and protecting the inheritance rights of women

  Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, 2004

  In this report, the COHRE Women and Housing Rights Programme (WHRP) documents the fact that under both statutory and customary law, the overwhelming majority of women in sub-Saharan Africa (regardless of their marital status) cannot own or inherit land, housing and other property in their own right.
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  Women: still the key to food and nutrition security

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  This brief discusses its research findings emphasising that empowering women is the key to ensuring food and nutrition security in the developing world.
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  Pesticide use in Africa: doing more harm than good?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Pesticide use in Africa has increased dramatically in recent years, despite the escalating costs and the fact that they are becoming less effective. This is creating a dependency on pesticides amongst farmers, threatening food safety, causing health risks, deepening the inequality between rich and poor farmers and creating environmental problems.
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  Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: Gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This study attempts to analyse changing patterns of land transfers and schooling investments by gender over three generations in customary land areas of Ghana's Western Region.The authors find: that although traditional matrilineal inheritance rules deny landownership rights to women, women have increasingly acquired land through gifts and other means, thereby reducing the gender gap in
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  Girl child labour in agriculture, domestic work and sexual exploitation: rapid assessments on the cases of the Philippines, Ghana and Ecuador (vol. 1)

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  This study analyses the situation of girl child labour in three areas: agriculture, domestic work and sexual exploitation.
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  Girl child labour in agriculture, domestic work and sexual exploitation: a comparative analysis, cases of Ghana, Ecuador, Philippines (vol. 2)

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  This study is a comparative analysis of gender sensitive assessments undertaken in the Ghana, Ecuador and the Philippines focusing on agriculture, domestic labour and prostitution. It analyses underlying factors of gender disparities in child labour and the consequences of those differences.
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  Availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture

  RUAF Urban Agriculture Magazine, 2003

  The report by the Urban Agriculture Magazine draws on numerous case studies from around the world in discussing issues of availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture.Rapid urbanisation has lead to an increasing demand for urban agricultural land.
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  Livelihoods approaches to information and communication in support of rural poverty elimination and food security

  Research and Policy in Development, ODI, 2003

  This report looks at the of information in livelihoods, and makes recommendations on how agencies can capitalise on and integrate the best elements of traditional communication methods and the ICT revolution technologies within the livelihoods approach. Seven key recommendations were identified :

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