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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2003

    Soil erosion by water is an old problem in Ethiopia. The prevalence of mountainous and undulating landscapes, coupled with the expansion of arable farming on steep areas due to population pressure have aggravated the soil erosion problem in the country. Prompted by one of the great famines in the country in 1973, the international community and the Ethiopian government began to carry out massive conservation measures that covered extensive areas. Since then, the conservation movement has continued.

  2. Library Resource
    Legislation
    May, 2003
    Ukraine

    This Law defines the legal, organizational, economic and social principles of conducting smallholding activity. Smallholding (individual peasant farm) shall be a business activity that is carried out without the creation of a legal entity by an individual or by family members or relatives that live together in order to meet their personal needs through the production, processing and consumption of agricultural products, vending of its surpluses and the provision of services using the property of a private peasant farm, also in the field of rural green tourism.

  3. Library Resource
    Regulations
    March, 2003
    Ecuador

    El presente Decreto crea el Programa de riego y recuperación de tierras degradadas, adscrito al Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG), cuyos objetivos son el fortalecimiento e inversión en los siguientes ámbitos: 1) Optimización de uso del agua, especialmente la destinada para riego; 2) Reactivación de las economías de los pequeños agricultores; 3) Generación de empleo; 4) Garantizar la seguridad alimentaria interna del país; 5) Lograr mayor estabilidad socioeconómica en las zonas rurales, disminuyendo el crecimiento acelerado de los centros urbanos; y, 6) Armonizar el desarrollo urba

  4. Library Resource
    January, 2003
    Sub-Saharan Africa

    Is the World Bank’s approach to land relations gender insensitive? Is it realistic to pin poverty reduction aspirations on the promotion of credit markets and reliance on women’s unpaid labour? Does the acquisition of secure tenure rights necessarily benefit poor women? How should advocates of women’s rights in Africa respond to the Bank’s land agenda?

  5. Library Resource
    January, 2003

    Zimbabwe’s fast-track land reform has had a bad press. Reports of violence and intimidation have obscured the reality that formal procedures used to settle black farmers in model villages bear a striking resemblance to earlier colonial procedures. Whilst colonial myths about African farmers as subsistence oriented and inefficient live on, evidence from south-eastern Zimbabwe suggests that the reforms have benefited some poor black farmers

  6. Library Resource
    January, 2004
    Bangladesh, Southern Asia

    This document presents the key findings of the evaluation of an integrated agricultural production and water management project implemented by IFAD in Netrakona district, in northern Bangladesh.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2003
    Africa

    Argues that the price of commercial farmland in Namibia is high in relation to the profits that can be made from commercial livestock farming. As a result, farming is rapidly becoming the preserve of the urban rich who farm as a lifestyle choice and are prepared to subsidise their farms from their principal sources of income. Government policy is trying to encourage black Namibians into commercial farming through the Affirmative Action Loans scheme. However, given the price of land, many of these farmers will struggle to create commercially viable farms.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2003
    Africa

    Focuses on property rights in land, giving a short narrative of some of the key ‘land tenure’ or ‘land policy’ issues and the emerging consensus around them. Addresses the redistribution of property rights in land from large to small farmers. A policy framework for redistributive land reform is outlined within which the competing paradigms can actually compete there where it matters: on the ground.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2003
    Zimbabwe, Africa

    Presents two personal testimonies of eviction and dispossession to illustrate the long and complex political history of land in Zimbabwe. The first concerns the eviction of white commercial farmers from one district in December 2002, the second of black peasant farmers in 1948, to make way for the white post-1945 white war veterans.

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