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The economic lives of smallholder farmers

An analysis based on household data from nine countries

Reports & Research
March, 2015
Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Albania
Land & Food Security
sustainable development
land-use planning
rural areas
land use
smallholders
rural population
About two-thirds of the developing world’s 3 billion rural people live in about 475 million small farm households, working on land plots smaller than 2 hectares. 1 Many are poor and food insecure and have limited access to markets and services. Their choices are constrained, but they farm their land and produce food for a substantial proportion of the world’s population. Besides farming they have multiple economic activities, often in the informal economy, to contribute towards their small incomes.
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Abandoned agrarian reform : valleys and high plains

Reports & Research
December, 2003
Bolivia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land reform
land tenure
land use
rural areas
Library has Spanish version: Bolivia : la reforma agraria abandonada; valles y altiplano
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Land grab in Brazil caused by lack of land governance

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2015
South America, Brazil
Land & Corruption
land governance
corruption
development
rural development
environment
rural areas
agriculture
land economics
land grabbing
land rights
private ownership
public ownership
tenure security
government
Brazil has the fifth-largest national land area in the world and this land resource represents a critical asset for the country’s urban, agricultural, and economic development, also providing essential environmental services. Nevertheless, it has a historical lack of governance over its lands, failing to provide secure land rights and to control the extensive frauds resulting in public and private land grabs. The objective of this study is to depict evidence of these land grabs and propose a typology for analyzing them.
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A proposition to solve the land cadaster system in Brazil: the role of CNIR and a new institutionalization

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2016
Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Brazil
cadastres
geographical information systems
cadastral register
cadastral administration
agricultural and rural legislation
rural planning
rural areas
private ownership
public ownership
property
private property
property rights
Brazil has, on the one hand, strong institutions in various areas, improved social situation and, on the other, the rural land situation is still very precarious, with basic unresolved questions, such as for example, knowledge of what is public and private land, due to the absence of cadaster. The legislation moved forward in an attempt to link the cadasters of INCRA, the Internal Revenue Service, with information from the Registry of Real Estate with the enactment of Law No. 10,267 / 2001, creating the National Register of Rural Properties – CNIR.
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The Brazilian agrarian issue requires solution in the XXI century

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2011
South America, Brazil
Land & Corruption
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Urban Tenure
corruption
agrarian structure
agrarian reform
deforestation
rural areas
urban land
conflicts
foreign investment
landlessness
land conflicts
land dispute
rural population
In this beginning of century, Brazil has, on one hand, a high economic growth, strong institutions in various areas and improvement of social situation, but, on the other hand, the rural and urban land situation is still very precarious, with elementary issues that are not resolved and that most developed countries solved them still in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Mutual Effects of Land Distribution and Economic Development: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America

Volume 8 Issue 6

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2019
Africa, Central America, Asia, South America
development
land distribution
poverty
rural areas
Land plays an important role in the economies of developing countries, and many theories connecting land inequality with different dimensions of economic development already exist. Even though efficacious land distribution allows societies to transition from poverty to a human capital-based developed economy, ongoing issues related to property rights, inequality, and the political economy of land distribution are unavoidable. The general objective of this paper is to explore the nexus between land distribution and economic development.
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Environmental reserve quotas in Brazil's new forest legislation: An ex ante appraisal

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Brazil, South America
Forest Tenure
rural areas
private ownership
landowners
land ownership
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Bushmeat in the tri-frontier region of Brazil, Peru and Colombia: Demise or persistence?

Reports & Research
December, 2014
Peru, Colombia, Brazil, South America
Urban Tenure
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
land management
rural areas
forest land
food security
urban areas
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How to promote adaptation to climate change on water management in rural areas?

January, 2009
Ecuador, Latin America and the Caribbean
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land use
research
water management
rural areas
ASOCAM conducted the XII ASOCAM Latin American Seminar 2009 in the district of Yucay in Cusco, Peru on ‘How to promote adaptation to climate change on water management in rural areas?’ The seminar brought together 40 participants from 8 countries submitted their institutional experiences generated so far in development projects and initiatives related to the use and management of water in the rural Andes in Ecuador, Peru and Colombia.
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Regional developments [In 2014-2015 Global food policy report]

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Southern Africa, Central Asia, South America, Africa, Asia, Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, Southern Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, South America, Africa, Asia
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land Conflicts
agricultural and rural legislation
food security
land policies
women
agriculture
research
rural areas
poverty
climate change
environment
fisheries
rural development
youth
water management
land conflicts
farmers
land use
land rights
land tenure
land tenure systems
capacity development
In addition to global developments and food policy changes, 2014 also saw important developments with potentially wide repercussions in individual countries and regions. This chapter offers perspectives on major food policy developments in various regions including Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.