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  1. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    March, 2006
    Kenya

    The Role Of Wetlands In Poverty Reduction- Extreme poverty among rural poor people living around wetlands remains a daily reality for more than 56% of Kenya’s population, who subsist on less than one dollar a day. Seventy percent of extremely poor households, a majority of who live in rural areas where hunger and poverty prevails, are now being caught up in a new web of lack of access to wetlands as safety-net during hard times due to appropriation of wetlands by private developers.

  2. Library Resource

    Living on the Margins of Life; The Plight of the Batwa Communities of South Western Uganda

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    April, 2006
    Uganda

    The meaning and scope of the concept of Community-Based Property Rights (CBPR) has become a dominant feature of conservation and development policy discourse over the last decade. The debate has largely been shaped by the growing trends where governments have continued to appropriate traditional lands for conservation and development activities that have resulted into large scale dislocation and widespread disenfranchisement of sections of our society.

  3. Library Resource
    Demystifying customary tenure
    Conference Papers & Reports
    March, 2006
    Zambia

    Customary tenure has been associated with absence of individual ownership, inadequate security of tenure, weak institutions, causing environmental degradation, and discriminating against women. These perceptions are re-looked at in the light of personal experience and observations, and literature review in the context of Zambia.

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    Environmental and Social Management Framework

    National Policies
    March, 2006
    Tanzania

    In August 2001, The Government of Tanzania (GoT) approved the Agricultural Sector Development Strategy (ASDS) which envisages an agricultural sector that, by 2025, is modernized, commercial, highly productive and profitable, and utilizes natural resources in a sustainable manner. The ASDS has identified five strategic issues:

    • Strengthening the institutional framework.

    • Creating a favorable environment for commercial activities.

    • Clarifying public and private sector roles in improving support services.

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    Resettlement Policy Framework

    National Policies
    March, 2006
    Tanzania

    A policy to guide resettlement in agricultural projects under ASDP

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