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Community Organizations Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
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Links between tenure security and food security in poor agrarian economies: causal linkages and policy implications

Décembre, 2015
Algérie
Éthiopie

Population growth leads to growing land scarcity and landlessness in poor agrarian economies. Many of these also face severe climate risks that may increase in the future. Tenure security is important for food security in such countries and at the same time threatened by social instability that further accelerate rural-urban and international migration. Provision of secure property rights with low-cost methods that create investment incentives can lead to land use intensification and improved food security.

How pro-poor are land rental markets in Ethiopia?

Décembre, 2015
Éthiopie

Land rental markets can potentially improve the access to land for land-poor households that possess complementary resources that can enable them to utilize land efficiently. Land rental markets can also enable landowners who are poor in non-land resources to rent out their land such that their land is utilized more efficiently and they themselves can get a better income and improved welfare from their land resource. This report assesses the land rental market that is dominated by a reverse tenancy system with relatively poorer landlords and less poor tenants.

Street based self-employment : a poverty trap or a stepping stone for migrant youth in Africa?

Reports & Research
Décembre, 2015
Africa

A significant percentage of youth in urban Africa is employed in the informal sector. The
informal sector is more accessible than the formal sector for people with low human and
financial capital, such as youth migrants from rural areas. But the sector is also generally