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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    June, 2019
    Tanzania

    The growing number of farmer-herder resource conflicts in Tanzania is often presented in official narratives as a product of climate change resulting from increased environmental pressures. Nonetheless, based on a qualitative research, this paper asserts that farmer- herder conflicts in Rufiji and Kisarawe districts should be understood in terms of the marginalization of pastoral community interests over access to land. This has created what Hall, Hirsch and Li [2013. Power of Exclusions: Lland Dilemmas in Southeast Asia.

  2. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    October, 2021
    Kazakhstan

    Livestock mobility was an essential characteristic of Kazakh livestock production systems, allowing animals to take advantage of spatial and temporal variability in climate and vegetation, optimising forage intake over the year. These systems broke down following the end of the Soviet Union. In this paper we examine the extent and determinants of the recovery of mobile livestock husbandry in south-eastern Kazakhstan, using surveys and semi-structured interviews with livestock farmers and rural households (holding livestock but not registered as farms).

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    Ethiopia, Tanzania, Ghana, Africa

    In this paper, we will explore the ways in which sustainable intensification interventions

    often overlook fundamental social dynamics in rural landscapes. We provide evidence of

    the underlying social, political and environmental contexts that affect farmers’ land-use

    decisions. While there are numerous initiatives to promote a Green Revolution for Africa,

    many tend to be dominated by technical fixes that fail to understand rural farmers’ condi

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    tions or aspirations and focus narrowly on increasing productivity. These technical solu

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  4. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa

    This Proclamation aims at improving management and utilization of land and land resources for agricultural purposes in the Southern Nations, Nationalities And Peoples' Regional State. It applies to all land that lies outside of municipal borders. The Proclamation defines the right to acquire, free of charge, rural land by peasants, pastoralists and semi-pastoralists engaged in agriculture and the equal rights of women with respect to land and provides for the protection of such rights.

  5. Library Resource
    Regulations
    Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa

    This Regulation implements provisions of the Proclamation of The Southern Nations, Nationalities And Peoples Regional State on rural land rights and use. It applies to all types of rural land and lands used for agricultural purposes in urban territory.

  6. Library Resource
    Regulations
    China, Eastern Asia, Asia

    The Purpose of these Regulations is to protect, construct and utilize grasslands rationally and promote the sustainable development of grassland ecosystem. The Regulations are divided into 6 Chapters: General Provisions (I); Planning and Construction (II); Contractual Management (III); Protection and Utilization (IV); Legal Liabilities (V); Supplementary Provisions (VI).

  7. Library Resource
    Regulations
    China, Eastern Asia, Asia

    These Measures have been formulated in accordance with the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Contracting of Rural Land.

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