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    Rural Livelihoods in Three Mountainous Regions of Tajikistan

    Journal Articles & Books
    September, 2007
    Tajikistan
    Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
    poverty
    land reform
    agrarian reform
    livestock
    agriculture
    migration

    This article uses data from household income surveys to look at income structures amongst households in three mountainous regions of Tajikistan: Gorno-Badakhshan, the Rasht Valley and Eastern Khatlon. The structure of incomes demonstrates the dominant role of subsistence agriculture in all three regions although commercial agriculture is important amongst better-off households in Rasht. Relationships between poverty and household characteristics including access to capital, demographic variables and income-generating activities were examined.

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    Land Reform in Tajikistan: Consequences for Tenure Security, Agricultural Productivity and Land Management Practices

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2008
    Tajikistan
    Land Degradation & Tenure
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    poverty
    land law
    land reform
    land management
    land degradation
    agriculture
    landlessness
    land tenure
    collective ownership
    private ownership
    tenure security

    This paper examines the impact of land reform on agricultural productivity in Tajikistan. Recent legislation allows farmers to obtain access to heritable land shares for private use, but reform has been geographically uneven. The break-up of state farms has occurred in some areas where agriculture has little to offer but, where high value crops are grown, land reform has hardly begun. In cases where collectivized farming persists and land has not been distributed, productivity remains low and individual households benefit little from farming.

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    Land Reform in Tajikistan

    Land Reform in Tajikistan

    Consequences for Tenure Security, Agricultural Productivity and Land Management Practices

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2008
    Tajikistan
    Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
    poverty
    land distribution
    land management
    pastoral lands
    agricultural land management
    agriculture
    land productivity
    landlessness
    land tenure
    collective ownership
    communal ownership
    tenure security
    state property

    This paper examines the impact of land reform on agricultural productivity in Tajikistan. Recent legislation allows farmers to obtain access to heritable land shares for private use, but reform has been geographically uneven. The break-up of state farms has occurred in some areas where agriculture has little to offer but, where high value crops are grown, land reform has hardly begun. In cases where collectivized farming persists and land has not been distributed, productivity remains low and individual households benefit little from farming.

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    Recycled fable or immutable truth? Reflections on the 1973 land tenure reform project in Lesotho and lessons for the future

    Journal Articles & Books
    October, 2007
    Lesotho
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    land administration
    customary land rights
    land tenure systems
    customary tenure
    informal tenure regimes

    State efforts to reform the customary land tenure system of Lesotho have failed to produce intended outcomes. An explanation given for this failure is customary chiefs' opposition to state-sponsored reforms, as these were purportedly meant to curtail their power over land. This explanation initially appeared in 1974 connection with the Administration of Lands Act of 1973, and has since been handed down through generations of academics and policy analysts in Lesotho and outside and uncritically accepted as immutable truth.

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    Women’s access to and control over land in the current land administration system in two rural kebeles in Ada’a Woreda of Oromia Region

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2007
    Ethiopia, Eastern Africa
    land use
    land ownership

    The study is designed to explore the status of rural women in access to and control over land in the current land administration system in two rural Kebeles in East Shewa Zone Ada’a Woreda of Oromia region on smallholder farmers’ landholding registration. The Ormia National Regional State Rural Land Administration and Use Proclamation and its implementation procedure are examined from a gender perspective in terms of ensuring rural women’s land holding rights and control they have over land.

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    Working with communities and building local institutions for sustainable land management in the Ethiopian highlands

    Journal Articles & Books
    February, 2007
    Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
    land management

    Land management is a multi-dimensional and multi-institutional engagement that demands collective analysis, design, and implementation of innovations. Its importance for Ethiopia cannot be overemphasized, as land degradation threatens food security and environmental sustainability.

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