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Governing Land Use in Kenya: From Sectoral Fragmentation to Sustainable Integration of Law and Policy

Reports & Research
December, 2011
Kenya
land administration
land economics
poverty
sustainable development
The research aims to develop a legal and policy framework that will facilitate integration of environmental protection with socio-economic activities during land use decision-making, as a mechanism to achieve sustainability. A statutory duty of care, with respect to land use, would make it clear that land owners or occupiers have definite responsibilities to protect and enhance the sustainability of the land that they use or manage; it would aim to reverse existing land degradation, or include a duty to inform other land owners or the state about some kinds of foreseeable degradation.
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Livestock and land share contracts in a Hindu Society

Reports & Research
December, 2011
Nepal
Land & Investments
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land markets
livestock
poverty
This paper examines factors related to the existence of a livestock rental market in western Nepal and assesses whether this is associated with caste differentiation and land rental market participation. This study brings new empirical evidence of livestock rental market against the established view that such market does not exist due to moral hazard.
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Articulated neoliberalism: The specificity of patronage, kleptocracy, and violence in Cambodia's neoliberalization

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
Cambodia
Land & Investments
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
poverty
land policies
land law
An exclusive focus on external forces risks the production of an overgeneralized account of a ubiquitous neoliberalism, which insufficiently accounts for the profusion of local variations that currently comprise the neoliberal project as a series of articulations with existing political economic circumstances. Although the international financial institutions initially promoted neoliberal economics in the global South, powerful elites were happy to oblige.
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Managing urban land

A guide for municipal practitioners

Conference Papers & Reports
January, 2012
South Africa
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
land
land markets
urban areas
urban population
poverty
housing rights
sustainable development
urbanization
Urban land markets have a profound effect on how well poor households are able to access the jobs, amenities and services offered in the city. But often the way in which this market works frustrates attempts to open up better located living and business opportunities for poorer urban households and communities, despite government policies and programmes intended to address these challenges. The challenge in South Africa is even larger because of worsening poverty and inequality, and the continuing growth of cities through urbanisation.
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Ceasefire capitalism: military–private partnerships, resource concessions and military–state building in the Burma–China borderlands

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
Myanmar
Land & Investments
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land investments
land acquisitions
poverty
Since ceasefire agreements were signed between the Burmese military government and ethnic political groups in the Burma–China borderlands in the early 1990s, violent waves of counterinsurgency development have replaced warfare to target politically-suspect, resource-rich, ethnic populated borderlands. The Burmese regime allocates land concessions in ceasefire zones as an explicit postwar military strategy to govern land and populations to produce regulated, legible, militarized territory.
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Strategies to help poor people access urban land markets

Training Resources & Tools
January, 2011
South Africa
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
land
land markets
urban areas
urban population
poverty
This case study draws on research that examines
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Migration and land rental as risk response in rural China

January, 2011
China, Eastern Asia, Oceania
land rent
land
poverty
land tenure
Households in developing countries take various actions to smooth income or consumption as a means of managing or responding to risk. This paper examines migration and land rental market participation as responses to risk in rural China.
The authors show that over the last 30 years, there have been significant reforms in China, which have increased labour mobility and the functioning of rural land markets. The authors emphasise that while limitations still remain, the reforms have to date increased the efficiency of the allocation of these important factors of production.
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Understanding Land Investment Deals in Africa. Country Report: Mozambique

Reports & Research
December, 2011
Mozambique, Africa
Land & Investments
scale
land
poverty
land investments
land law
Includes Mozambique – war, land and poverty; land law, investors and peasants; land concessions – forests, agrofuels and other crops; are reckless land investment deals over? Traces the history of previous land concessions. A current intense debate on the proper balance between small and large-scale, foreign and domestic investment, food and other crops. Civil society and peasant organizations have successfully exposed many failures relating to recent land investments and are now working to register community lands.
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USAID Country Profile: Property Rights and Resource Governance - Lao PDR

Reports & Research
December, 2011
Laos
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Gender
legal empowerment
development agencies
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land distribution
land reform
environment
land investments
land acquisitions
title deeds
land titling
women
poverty
land policies
land law
OVERVIEW: The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is a landlocked country situated in Southeast Asia, bordering Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China and Myanmar. Despite a recent increase in the rate of urbanization and a relatively small amount of arable land per capita, most people in Lao PDR live in rural areas and work in an agriculture sector dominated by subsistence farming. Lao PDR’s economy relies heavily on its natural resources, with over half the country’s wealth produced by agricultural land, forests, water and hydropower and mineral resources.
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USAID Country Profile: Property Rights and Resource Governance - Thailand

Reports & Research
December, 2011
Thailand
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Investments
Land & Gender
legal empowerment
development agencies
land distribution
land reform
environment
land investments
land acquisitions
land grabbing
title deeds
land titling
women
poverty
land policies
land law
OVERVIEW: Thailand is facing the challenges of a transition from lower- to upper-middle-income status. After decades of very rapid growth followed by more modest 5–6% growth after the Asian financial crisis of 1997–98, Thailand achieved a per capita GNI of US $3670 by 2008, reduced its poverty rate to less than 10% and greatly extended coverage of social services. Infant mortality has been cut to only 13 per 1000, and 98% of the population has access to clean water and sanitation.