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Peru Law on the Education of Rural Girls and Teens

January, 2001
Peru
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
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A survey of indigenous land tenure: a report for the Land Tenure Service of the FAO

January, 2001
Latin America and the Caribbean
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land
land tenure
This study provides a concise overview of the information available on the land rights of indigenous peoples, with a focus on those in developing countries and countries with economies in transition. Successive chapters summarise the rights of indigenous peoples in international law and then examine how these rights are being recognised, or not, in Latin America, Africa and the Asia-Pacific.
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What drives tropical deforestation?: a meta-analysis of proximate and underlying causes of deforestation based on subnational case study evidence

January, 2001
Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
environment
deforestation
land tenure
Using the framework of the Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC) Science/Research Plan this study takes 152 studies of deforestation in different regions of varying size from around the tropics and analyses them to assess how important different causes of deforestation really are.
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Making property in the Taos valleys

January, 2001
Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean
property
land tenure
This article emphasises that society makes property and that when one society is displaced by another it often is the case that existing property arrangements are recast to favor the newcomers and disadvantage the former inhabitants. With this in mind, the paper explores the displacement process by examining the case of Hispanos in northern New Mexico and their displacement with the takeover of the U.S. government beginning in 1846.The paper finds that:a major disruption in the political economy of northern New Mexico occurred under U.S. governance.
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Responding to climate change: on the ground in Honduras

January, 2001
Honduras, Latin America and the Caribbean
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
climate change
land use
Report on project in Honduras aimed at assessing the potential for carbon sequestration through both establishing new plantations and conservation of existing forests.
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Climate change in Latin America: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

January, 2001
Latin America and the Caribbean
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land use
agriculture
This paper discusses the possible implications of climate change in Latin America.
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The IMF funding deforestation: how International Monetary Fund loans and policies are responsible for global forest loss

January, 2001
Honduras, Chile, Ukraine, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Ghana, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Guyana, Belarus, Central African Republic, Nicaragua, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Madagascar, Uzbekistan, Cameroon, Tanzania, Ecuador, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Armenia, Brazil, Oceania, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Asia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
environment
deforestation
Report which alleges that International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans and policies have caused extensive deforestation in each of the 15 countries of Africa, Latin America, and Asia studied.This forest loss, the author claims, has occurred both directly and indirectly through:the IMF's promotion of foreign investment in natural resource sectorsausterity measures that cut spending on environmental programsprograms that have unwittingly worsened the conditions of povertythe IMF.s insistence upon export-oriented economic growth.The report finds that:IMF induced cuts have impeded:Promotion of resp
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Los indígenas y la tierra en una región dedicada a la agricultura comercial en México : Apuntes sobre el caso de Córdoba, Veracruz (entre el siglo XVII y fines del siglo XIX)

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2001
Mexico, Argentina
expropriation
El estudio de la propiedad y la tenencia de la tierra en México, es uno de los temas que mayor interés ha despertado entre los historiadores de distintas generaciones. La desigualdad en el acceso a la tierra y el despojo del que fueron víctimas los más débiles, ha sido punto de partida de varios trabajos fundacionales en la historiografía mexicana. Un tema íntimamente relacionado con los problemas agrarios y la propiedad es la desamortización. Esta es considerada como uno de los detonantes principales de los conflictos del campo porfiriano que desembocaron en la revolución de 1910.
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Derechos de propiedad, herencia de las esposas e igualdad de género: aspectos comparativos entre Brasil e Hispanoamérica

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2001
Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean
property rights
En América Latina durante el curso del siglo XX se lograron considerables avances para fortalecer los derechos de propiedad de la mujer casada. Sin embargo, se ha prestado atención limitada a los derechos de herencia de las esposas. La revisión de las normas legales en doce países permite argumentar que las viudas están a menudo en una posición de desventaja en comparación con las hijas/os de la pareja. Las normas sobre herencia no fueron diseñadas para dar a las viudas la posibilidad de autonomía económica, por medio del control de la finca familiar o los negocios.
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PROGRESA and its impacts on the human capital and welfare of households in rural Mexico

January, 2001
Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean
property
In early 1998, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was asked to assist the PROGRESA administration to “determine if PROGRESA is functioning in practice as it is intended to by design.” PROGRESA is one of the major programs of the Mexican government aimed at developing the human capital of poor households. Targeting its benefits directly to the population in extreme poverty in rural areas, it aims to alleviate current poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health and nutrition.