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Library ResourceJanuary, 2003
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJune, 2003Armenia, Azerbaijan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Asia, Central Asia, Western Asia
The year 2002 marked ICARDA's 25th anniversary, and coincided with several honors and awards for the center's excellence in research. Research on developing high-yielding kabuli chickpea varieties that thrive in cool, wet winter conditions earned the 2002 King Baudouin Award of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), jointly with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), which focuses on desi chickpea.
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A case study of the land rent section of the Department of Lands, Ministry of Lands and Settlement, Nairobi Kenya
Reports & ResearchOctober, 2003KenyaThis project thesis presents a conceptual framework for a land information system that
would result in increased revenue collection from the land rent section of the Department
of Lands, Ministry of Lands and Settlement. It point out the need for a comprehensive
database containing both physical and socio-economic data supported by powerful
analytical capabilities as the basis for effective decision making on land rent for tax
revenue collection.
The Government has admittedly a lot of untapped revenue in the form of unrevised land -
Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003Kenya
Land-cover change in the rangelands can be manifested in different ways, including bush
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003Kenya
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003Kenya
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003Kenya
Land-use history, not readily available
for most places, remains the weakest link in nearly all
studies of historic vegetation change, in Africa as well
as other places in the world. Notwithstanding,
communities hold a great wealth of knowledge on the
processes and events influencing change on the land
they occupy. The Lambwe Valley, southwestern Kenya,
has a multi-ethnic population of settlers from the early
1950s. These people have seen the transformation of
an initially forested area with diverse challenges to -
Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2003
De workshop 'Toekomstverkenningen landbouwverkenningen in het Maashorstgebied' maakt onderdeel uit van het project 'Toekomstverkenningen van de landbouw in 2030' van Praktijkonderzoek Plant en Omgeving (PPO) en Praktijkonderzoek Veehouderij (PV). Met het project 'Toekomstverkenningen van de landbouw in 2030', geeft het Praktijkonderzoek concrete invulling aan het thema 'systeeminnovaties'. Het project wordt uitgevoerd op twee niveaus: landelijk en regionaal.
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Library ResourceDecember, 2003Namibia
In the light of the global discussion on
reducing public and private expenditure on
cadastral processes and services, this
article reviews the transaction costs of
land registration, based on data gathered in
Namibia. The data show a large
differentiation in the types of costs
incurred in the process, as well as various
levels of cost recovery. In addition, the
degree to which delays in the operational
registration processes influence the total
cost to land developers and landowners is
reviewed.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2004South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
This proceedings issue from a mini conference held in November 2004 presents six papers summarising attempts to establish best practice equity-share schemes on two commercial farms in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The main object of this participatory research was to test and refine land reform policy influencing the role of equity-share schemes as instruments of land and agrarian reform in South Africa.The papers presented were as follows:Land redistribution in Kwazulu-Natal: an analysis of Farmland transactions from 1997 until 2002 by Stuart Ferrer and Allan Semalulu.
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