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Participatory democracy by default: land reform, social movements and the state in Brazil

January, 2010
Brazil
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
land reform
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Changing agrarian relations after redistributive land reform in Zimbabwe

January, 2011
Zimbabwe
Land & Investments
Land & Food Security
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
land reform
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New angles on the impact of land redistribution

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2010
South Africa
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
land reform
poverty
This article explores the impacts of the now discontinued Land Reform for Agricultural Development Programme on household consumption but argues that more work needs to be done to fully understand the connection between asset treansfer programmes and a reduction in persistent poverty
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Evaluating the Impacts of Expanded Trade and Investment in Mining on Forests

Customary Rights and Societal Stakes in the Copperbelt of Zambia

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Zambia
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
agrarian reform
agricultural and rural legislation
forest conservation
This paper analyzes the implications of copper mining in Zambia on customary rights to land and forests, and the societal stakes associated with foreign investment in the mining industry. Copper mining affects forests, and in turn the people with customary rights to those forests, in a number of direct and indirect ways, from deforestation during green site development and selective harvesting of timber to the significant but indirect pressures over forests through infrastructure development and the population pull effect of mining towns.
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Customary land reform to facilitate private investment in Zambia: achievements, potentials and limitations

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agrarian reform
agricultural and rural legislation
community land rights
customary tenure
In the name of development, governments in southern Africa are reformulating land policies to facilitate privatisation of customary land rights. It is argued that this can stimulate land markets, (foreign) private investment, access to formal credit, and enhance security of tenure (by way of holding title), thereby leading to economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania

Investment Blueprint (High Resolution)

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Tanzania
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
agrarian reform
agrarian structure
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
agriculture
Building on Tanzania’s Kilimo Kwanza (‘Agriculture First’ strategy), the SAGCOT Investment Blueprint describes how $2.1 billion of private investment will be catalysed over a twenty year period, alongside public sector grants and loans of $1.3 billion. The result will be a tripling of the area’s agricultural output. Approximately 350,000 hectares will be brought into profitable production, much of it farmed by smallholder farmers, and with a significant area under irrigation.
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Accumulation by Land Dispossession and Labour Devaluation in Tanzania

The Case of Biofuel and Forestry Investments in Kilwa and Kilolo

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Tanzania
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
advocacy
agrarian reform
agricultural and rural legislation
collective ownership
land acquisitions
land governance
land grabbing
land investments
land rights
New commercial pressures on land and its impact on small producers is one of the major issues being discussed in both national and international arenas. As foreign states and corporate entities continue to exert pressures on African countries to acquire land for various investment purposes, Tanzania is not exempted. The country is stereotypically perceived as having large underutilized, or rather unexploited, fertile land – the so-called ‗virgin land‘.
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Survey Report on Information Disclosure of Land Management Regulations

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Vietnam
Land & Food Security
food security
land distribution
land reform
land policies
land law
Land, and its proper management, is a central issue in developing countries. Efficient use and management of land are key contributors to maximizing the potential benefits of sustainable socioeconomic development. Accurate and accessible land information is a necessary requirement for sustainable rural and urban development, which will contribute to the elimination of poverty. A well-functioning land market is crucial for achieving these goals and a prerequisite for a land market to function properly includes easy, rapid and cost-effective access to land information.