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   Land reform and poverty alleviation in Mozambique

   Conference Papers & Reports

   January, 2002

   Sub-Saharan Africa, Mozambique

   poverty

   land reform

   land

   land tenure

   Brief overview of the policy background to the land reform process in Mozambique, and a very generalised assessment of the extent to which this reform is improving the livelihoods of Mozambican rural people.The paper focuses on the experiences of the land component of Zambézia Agricultural Development Project (ZADP) . It looks at the extent to which the objective of the new land tenure policy in alleviating poverty has been realised and have concentrated on the contextual, practical and conceptual challenges that have faced a provincial programme of land tenure reform.

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   From plot to watershed management: Experience in farmer participatory Vertisol technology generation and adoption in highland Ethiopia

   Conference Papers & Reports

   December, 2001

   Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa

   land use

   farmers

   This chapter summarises the experience of a research project for developing and disseminating technologies for better management of Vertisols for improving productivity.

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   IMPACTS OF LAND RESDISTRIBUTION ON LAND MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY IN THE ETHIOPIAN HIGHLANDS

   Conference Papers & Reports

   December, 2001

   Ethiopia

   The increasing problem of landlessness in Ethiopia has put pressure on regional governments to redistribute land. In 1997 and 1998, a major land redistribution was undertaken in the Amhara region, reducing landlessness where implemented. While the impacts of such redistributions have been hotly debated, little empirical evidence exists concerning the actual impacts of this redistribution.

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   Papers of FAO/SARPN Workshop on HIV/AIDS and Land, Pretoria

   Conference Papers & Reports

   January, 2002

   Kenya, Malawi, Lesotho, South Africa

   land policies

   Series of country papers on HIV/AIDS and land in Lesotho, Kenya, South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, with concluding paper on methodological and conceptual issues. The key questions addressed include: The impact on and changes in land tenure systems (including patterns of ownership, access, and rights) as a consequence of HIV/AIDS with a focus on vulnerable groups. The ways that HIV/AIDS affected households are coping in terms of land use, management and access, e.g. abandoning land due to fear of losing land, renting out due to inability to utilise land, distress sale of land, etc.