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  1. Library Resource

    A Critical Review

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2012
    South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa

    This paper provides an overview of land reform in South Africa from 1994 to 2011, with the focus on the land redistribution. The government policies and associated implementation since 1994 have not generated expected social and economic results for a number of reasons. Even where land has been transferred, it appears to have had minimal impact on the livelihoods of beneficiaries, largely because of inappropriate project design, a lack of necessary support services and shortages of working capital, leading to widespread underutilization of land.

  2. Library Resource

    What, Where, and How

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    November, 2011

    Reforestation measures for degraded lands, strategies for the sustainable management of forest resources, and agroforestry practices that incorporate trees into farming systems are increasingly demonstrating their promise for producing commercialized tree products. Although the level of investment so far has remained modest, the challenge is to find ways to scale up promising investments in a way that will have a clear impact at the landscape level.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2009
    Vietnam

    Đổi Mới, the name given to the economic reforms initiated in 1986 in Vietnam, has renewed the party-state’s ambitious scheme of industrialization and has intensified the process of urbanization in Vietnam. A large area of land has been converted for these purposes, with various effects on both the state and society. This article sheds light on how land conversion has resulted in farmers’ resistance and in what way and to what extent it has transformed their livelihoods in the transitional context of contemporary Vietnam.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    Global

    Although «urban» and «rural» development are often considered as in opposition to each other and seen as competing with each other for investment and support, many urban centres owe much of their economic base to agriculture. Ironically, one of the best tests of whether rural development is working is whether local urban centres are booming - as increasing agricultural output is served by markets and producer services there, and as real increases in income for a wide range of rural households are reflected in increased demand for goods and services provided by urban-based enterprises.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam

    The type of agrarian structure employed to produce tropical commodities affects many dimensions of land use, such as ownership inequality, overlapping land rights and conflicts, and land use changes. I conduct a literature review of historical changes in agrarian structures of commodities grown on the upland frontier of mainland Southeast and South Asia, using a case study approach, of tea, rubber, oil palm and cassava.

  6. Library Resource
    August, 2013

    Forest resources directly contribute to
    the livelihoods of 90 percent of the 1.2 billion people
    living in extreme poverty and indirectly support the natural
    environment that nourishes agriculture and the food supplies
    of nearly half the population of the developing world.
    Forests also are central to growth in many developing
    countries through trade and industrial development. However,
    mismanagement of this resource has cost governments revenues

  7. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Central America, Honduras

    This regional study encompasses three
    Central American countries: Nicaragua, Guatemala, and
    Honduras. The focus of this report is Honduras. The
    objective of the study is to understand how broad-based
    economic growth can be stimulated and sustained in rural
    Central America. The study identifies "drivers" of
    sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction. Drivers are
    defined as the assets and combinations of assets needed by

  8. Library Resource
    May, 2012

    The workshop brings diverse perspectives
    from outside the World Bank, providing a forum in which to
    exchange ideas and debate in the course of developing the
    World Development Report (WDR). Participants at the 2006
    Berlin Workshop gathered to discuss challenges and successes
    pertaining to agriculture and development. Agriculture is
    the major sector contributing to economic development in
    many poor countries. Three out of every four poor people in

  9. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Africa, Guinea

    This report summarizes the findings of
    the study on Competitive Commercial Agriculture for Africa
    (CCAA). The objective of the CCAA study was to explore the
    feasibility of restoring international competitiveness and
    growth in African agriculture through the identification of
    products and production systems that can underpin rapid
    development of a competitive commercial agriculture. The
    CCAA study focused on the agricultural potential of

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    Interest in farmland is rising. And,
    given commodity price volatility, growing human and
    environmental pressures, and worries about food security,
    this interest will increase, especially in the developing
    world. One of the highest development priorities in the
    world must be to improve smallholder agricultural
    productivity, especially in Africa. Smallholder productivity
    is essential for reducing poverty and hunger, and more and

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