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1. Library Resource

   

   Land Rights Monitors and the Struggle for Land Rights in Agricultural Investment Areas

   Experience from Tanzania

   Conference Papers & Reports

   March, 2014

   Tanzania

   Land & Food Security

   Land & Gender

   Land & Investments

   Land Conflicts

   advocacy

   agrarian reform

   capacity development

   communal ownership

   community land rights

   compulsory acquisitions

   gender equity in access to land

   land

   land access

   land investments

   To ensure that there is sustainability at the community level in its land rights and governance training programme, Land Rights Research and Resources Institute (HAKIARDHI), a Tanzanian national level organization that spearheads land rights of small-scale producers, uses land rights monitors (LRMs) in its program areas. In each of the selected villages of the program districts, two LRMs (a man and a woman) who have received land rights training from HAKIARDHI are democratically elected by villagers.

2. Library Resource

   

   The Neoliberal Agricultural Modernization Model: A Fundamental Cause for Large-Scale Land Acquisition and Counter Land Reform Policies in the Mekong Region

   Conference Papers & Reports

   May, 2015

   Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam

   Land & Investments

   agrarian reform

   agricultural land management

   farmers

   farming systems

   land investments

   land reform

   rural development

   This conference paper examines how the ideology and programmatic set of policies coined in the term ‘neoliberal modernization’ applies to agriculture and practices in the Mekong region.