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Liberia : Gender-Aware Programs and Women's Roles in Agricultural Value Chains

June, 2014
Liberia
agriculture
capacity development
farmers
fisheries
land ownership
natural resources management
rural development
transaction costs
urban areas
This Policy Memorandum provides policy
advice to the government of Liberia (GOL) in an effort to
mainstream gender issues in policies, programs, and projects
supporting agricultural production and value-chain
development. It is organized as follows. Section I reviews
women's roles in Liberian agriculture and agricultural
value chains, drawing on a variety of data sources,
including the 2007 Core Welfare Indicator Questionnaire
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The Nexus between Gender, Collective Action for Public Goods, and Agriculture : Evidence from Malawi

March, 2014
Malawi
agriculture
community forestry
decentralization
informal settlements
land ownership
land tenure
natural resources management
rural areas
rural development
transaction costs
youth
Across the developing world, public
goods exert significant impacts on the local rural economy
in general and agricultural productivity and welfare
outcomes in particular. Economic and social-cultural
heterogeneity have, however, long been documented as
detrimental to collective capacity to provide public goods.
In particular, women are often under-represented in local
leadership and decision-making processes, as are young
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Is There a Farm-Size Productivity Relationship in African Agriculture? Evidence from Rwanda

March, 2014
Rwanda
agriculture
climate change
farmers
land reform
land use
property rights
rural development
transaction costs
Whether the negative relationship
between farm size and productivity that is confirmed in a
large global literature holds in Africa is of considerable
policy relevance. This paper revisits this issue and
examines potential causes of the inverse productivity
relationship in Rwanda, where policy makers consider land
fragmentation and small farm sizes to be key bottlenecks for
the growth of the agricultural sector. Nationwide plot-level
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Uganda Sustainable Land Management : Public Expenditure Review

February, 2014
Uganda
agricultural land management
agriculture
climate change
decentralization
deforestation
farmers
farmland
fisheries
forest land
forestry
land administration
land degradation
land management
land registration
land tenure
land tenure systems
land use
land valuation
landowners
natural resources management
rural development
sustainable development
sustainable land management
This report summarizes the findings of
the Uganda Sustainable Land Management Public Expenditure
Review (SLM PER). The SLM PER was undertaken to achieve six
main objectives: (i) establish a robust data base on
SLM-related public expenditure that can support credible
empirical analysis; (ii) develop a sound methodology for
conducting SLM PERs, which could guide similar work in the
future; (iii) analyze the level and composition of SLM
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Land Governance in South Sudan : Policies for Peace and Development

December, 2014
South Sudan, Sudan
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
agriculture
capacity development
common property
compensation
fisheries
land administration
land grabbing
land management
land ownership
land rights
land speculation
land tenure
land use
land-use planning
pastoralists
property rights
rural areas
rural development
rural population
urban areas
urban planning
urban population
urbanization
waste (abuse)
zoning
South Sudan is a new country of 10.5
million people that has just emerged from conflict and still
facing challenges with recovery and development. Although
economic disparities, political exclusion and deprivation in
the distribution of political and economic power between the
northern and southern parts of then united Sudan were often
tendered as the proximal causes of the conflict, at the
center of the prolonged civil war was the struggle for
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Land productivity for staple food crops

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2014
Eastern Africa, Western Africa, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa
Land & Food Security
geographical information systems
land administration
agriculture
rural development
research
land investments
farmland
agricultural and rural legislation
land management
food security
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Production d’agrocarburants et accaparements de terres en Guinée : conséquences de la politique énergétique de l’UE - [étude]

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Guinea
Land & Investments
agriculture
food security
Indigenous Peoples
land grabbing
land policies
land rights
landlessness
natural resources management
property law
rural development
En 2009, l’UE s’est fixé comme objectif de porter à 10 % la part des énergies renouvelables dans sa consommation énergétique d’ici 2020. Dans le secteur des transports, cela s’est traduit par une législation qui promeut l’utilisation des carburants d’origine végétale : les agrocarburants.
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Agricultural change, land, and violence in Darfur

We No Longer Share the Land - Oxfam Briefing Paper

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2014
Central African Republic
Land & Investments
Indigenous Peoples
farmers
local communities
women
pastoralists
landlessness
agrarian reform
land rights
agriculture
land grabbing
property law
extractive industries
forestry
common property
fisheries
rural development
land governance
land policies
land area
land markets
food security
climate change
legal empowerment
land conflicts
advocacy
capacity development
cadastres
natural resources management
gender equity in access to land
environment
research
desertification
Most analyses of violence in Darfur ignore the local dimension of the crisis, focusing instead on the region’s economic and political marginalization and climatic variability. However, agricultural change and other changes relating to the land-rights and land-use systems have led to competition and exclusion, and have played a major role in the collective violence that has raged throughout the region. Understanding these questions is essential for the successful resolution of political and policy debates in Darfur.

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Illegal Logging in the Democratic Republic of Congo - Energy, Environment and Resources documents

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Land & Investments
Indigenous Peoples
land rights
agriculture
land grabbing
property law
forestry
common property
rural development
land governance
land area
extractive industries
land markets
desertification

This paper is part of a broader Chatham House study which assesses illegal logging and the associated trade. The study, which began in 2006, measures the nature and extent of the problem, and the effectiveness of the response by both the government and the private sector in a number of producer, processing and consumer countries.