The paper focuses on the need to rethink conventional wisdom on land tenure approaches and asks how we can best respond to the land tenure problems. It provides a comparative overview of land tenure systems in the drylands, identifies challenges and trends in land tenure reform projects, and offers ideas for decision-makers
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003Global
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003Ethiopia
Being one of the oldest civilisations in the world, Ethiopia has an agricultural tradition that is over 2,500 years old. However the land has brought into cultivation at different times in history. Generally the Northern part of the country has experienced intensive agriculture for a long time, whereas the southwestern highlands, which show relatively less soil degradation were brought into agriculture in the last couple of centuries.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003Global
The papers contained in this issue have been selected from those presented at a series of workshops, held in 2002 in Hungary, Uganda, Mexico and Cambodia, that were organized by the World Bank jointly with the Department for International Development (DFID), the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and with FAO, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the African development Bank (AfDB), the European Union (EU), the International Land Coalition, Oxfam, and other bilateral an
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003Global
This bulletin is issued by FAO as a medium for the dissemination of information and views on land reform and related subjects to the United Nations, FAO Member Governments and national and international experts and institutions. Articles are published in the original language (English, French or Spanish).
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003Global
The aim of this study is to analyse modes of access to land and agreements regulating the exchange of plots between families and between villages. It is based on a quantitative survey of 95 smallholders and over 300 plots (49 of which are cultivated by women), as well as qualitative analysis using transcriptions of interviews with groups of dignitaries, men and women. The main means of access to land identified are via inheritance and gifts, which together accounted for access to 80% to 90% of the plots surveyed.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003Indonesia
This book deals with the socio-legal aspects of the use and management of land and water
resources in (former) Luwu District (Kabupaten Luwu) in the Province of South Sulawesi (Propinsi -
Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2004Peru
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2003Bolivia
Library has Spanish version: Bolivia : la reforma agraria abandonada; valles y altiplano
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2003Bangladesh
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2003Sudan
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