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  Food crisis and the global land grab

  This website contains news and commentary about the global rush to buy up or lease farmlands abroad as a strategy to secure basic food supplies or simply for profit.
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  Impacts of land certification on tenure security, investment, and land market participation: evidence from Ethiopia

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009

  While early attempts at land titling in Africa were unsuccessful, factors such as new legislation, low-cost methods, and increasing demand for land have generated renewed interest. This paper aims to assess the impacts of land registration in Ethiopia.
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  Caste and land productivity in rural Nepal

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009

  This paper looks for the possible explanations for the land productivity differential between high caste and low caste farm households in Nepal. The paper indicates that caste position still plays a vital role in rural areas of Nepal.
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  Land grab or development opportunity? Agricultural investment and international land deals in Africa

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009

  Over 2008 large-scale acquisitions of farmland in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia and Southeast Asia have increased. This report discusses key trends and drivers in land acquisitions, the contractual arrangements underpinning them and the way these are negotiated. It also analyses the early impacts on land access for rural people in recipient countries with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Land tenure and land management in the districts around Mount Elgon: an assessment presented to Mount Elgon Regional Ecosystem Conservation Programme (MERECP)

  World Agroforestry Centre, 2007

  This working paper reviews historical and current factors and patterns affecting land use, land tenure, resource access, human settlement, and conflicts over resource access and tenure in the districts around Mt. Elgon in Kenya and Uganda.
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  Why is land productivity lower on land rented out by female landlords?: theory, and evidence from Ethiopia

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2008

  There is a common view and belief that women are the ones that do the farming in Africa while the men do not work much. This paper seeks to find explanations to why land productivity is lower on land rented out by female landlord households than on land rented out by male landlord households in the Ethiopian highlands.
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  The economics and politics of land reforms in Malawi: a case study of the Community Based Rural Land Development Programme

  IPPG Programme, 2008

  It is estimated that up to 84% of Malawians earn their livelihoods directly from agriculture - it contributes over 90% to export earnings, 40% to GDP and accounts for 85% of total employment.
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  The status of rural poverty in the Near East and North Africa

  International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2007

  Poverty in the Near East and North Africa region (NENA) is mainly a rural phenomenon. Almost half (48%) the area’s population lives in rural areas. This report focuses on key rural poverty issues in 13 diverse countries in the region, without attempting to propose policy or programme actions at national or local levels.
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  Al Hima: a way of life

  International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2007

  The Hima is a traditional system of resource tenure that has been practiced for more than 1400 years in the Arabian Peninsular. With the numerous deteriorations that came and halted advancement in the Arab world, and at times for different reasons, the Hima also declined.
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  Farmers' voices: practical perspectives on land reform and agricultural development

  Centre for Development and Enterprise, South Africa, 2008

  This report details the findings of a round table discussion on land reform and agricultural development in South Africa convened by The Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) in October 2007.

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