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Struggles of Munda people of Datinakhali Mundapara in Shyamnagar upazila (subdistrict) of Satkhira district in Bangladesh

Multimedia
October, 2023
Bangladesh
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
poverty
climate change
indigenous peoples' lands
landlessness
communal ownership
households
This video is about the everyday struggles of Munda people of Datinakhali Mundapara in Shyamnagar upazila (subdistrict) of Satkhira district in Bangladesh. Munda is one of the indigenous communities in the country. Being on the frontline of the climate crisis, rising sea levels and salt infiltrates, 28 Munda families living in Datinakhali Mundapara are in dire straits due to landlessness, poverty, and climate change effects, with 10 Munda households already have migrated to other places.
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Building Farmer Cooperatives In Georgia

Supporting smallholder farming in the post-socialist context

Reports & Research
August, 2015
Georgia
poverty
land law
land policies
farming systems
agriculture
private ownership
farmers
farmers associations
Smallholder farmers in Georgia face multiple challenges, including low productivity and poor access to the inputs and capacities that they need. Oxfam and its partners are implementing a programme that aims to increase agricultural productivity and support the competitiveness of smallholder farmers. The project works with smallholder farmers to establish and strengthen business-oriented farmer groups. The project also promotes changes to national policy and legislation, in order to create a more conducive environment for their development.
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Land Reform in Tajikistan: Consequences for Tenure Security, Agricultural Productivity and Land Management Practices

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2008
Tajikistan
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
poverty
land law
land reform
land management
land degradation
agriculture
landlessness
land tenure
collective ownership
private ownership
tenure security
This paper examines the impact of land reform on agricultural productivity in Tajikistan. Recent legislation allows farmers to obtain access to heritable land shares for private use, but reform has been geographically uneven. The break-up of state farms has occurred in some areas where agriculture has little to offer but, where high value crops are grown, land reform has hardly begun. In cases where collectivized farming persists and land has not been distributed, productivity remains low and individual households benefit little from farming.
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Land Reform in Tajikistan

Consequences for Tenure Security, Agricultural Productivity and Land Management Practices

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2008
Tajikistan
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
poverty
land distribution
land management
pastoral lands
agricultural land management
agriculture
land productivity
landlessness
land tenure
collective ownership
communal ownership
tenure security
state property
This paper examines the impact of land reform on agricultural productivity in Tajikistan. Recent legislation allows farmers to obtain access to heritable land shares for private use, but reform has been geographically uneven. The break-up of state farms has occurred in some areas where agriculture has little to offer but, where high value crops are grown, land reform has hardly begun. In cases where collectivized farming persists and land has not been distributed, productivity remains low and individual households benefit little from farming.
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Smallholder irrigation schemes in the Limpopo Province, South Africa

Reports & Research
December, 2017
South Africa
farmland
farmers
natural resources management
water management
land tenure
poverty
land ownership
A survey of 76 public smallholder irrigation schemes in the Limpopo Province was jointly conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), South Africa, and the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (LDARD), as part of the ‘Revitalization of Smallholder Irrigation in South Africa’ project.
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Poverty and forests: multi-country analysis of spatial association and proposed policy solutions

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
Brazil, Honduras, Malawi, Mozambique, Indonesia, Uganda, Vietnam
Forest Tenure
forestry
forest law
community forestry
poverty
forest management plans
natural resources management
land ownership
This paper examines poverty and deforestation in developing countries as linked problems and focuses on policies that can favour poverty alleviation in forested regions. The paper encompasses two elements: analysis of the spatial coincidence between poverty and forests, and proposed policy options for reducing poverty in forested areas.
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Poverty and forests: multi-country analysis of spatial association and proposed policy solutions

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2007
Brazil, Honduras, Malawi, Mozambique, Indonesia, Uganda, Vietnam
Forest Tenure
forestry
forest law
community forestry
poverty
forest management plans
natural resources management
land ownership
This paper examines poverty and deforestation in developing countries as linked problems and focuses on policies that can favour poverty alleviation in forested regions. The paper encompasses two elements: analysis of the spatial coincidence between poverty and forests, and proposed policy options for reducing poverty in forested areas.
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Assisting community management of groundwater: irrigator attitudes in two watersheds in Rajasthan and Gujarat, India

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
India
poverty
farmers
farming systems
agriculture
land ownership
The absence of either state regulations or markets to coordinate the operation of individual wells has focussed attention on community level institutions as the primary loci for sustainable groundwater management in Rajasthan and Gujarat, India. The reported research relied on theoretical propositions that livelihood strategies, groundwater management and the propensity to cooperate are associated with the attitudinal orientations of well owners in the Meghraj and Dharta watersheds, located in Gujarat and Rajasthan respectively.
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Land Tenure, Property Rights, and Gender

Challenges And Approaches For Strengthening Women's Land Tenure And Property Rights

Reports & Research
August, 2013
Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
food security
gender equity in access to land
land access
land ownership
poverty
property rights
rural development
sustainable development
use rights
women
While many people in the developing world lack secure property rights and access to adequate resources, women have less access to land than men do in all regions and in many countries (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [FAO], 2011b). Women across the developing world are consistently less likely to own land, have fewer rights to land, and the land they do own or have access to is of lower quality in comparison to men
(FAO, 2011b).
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Réforme Agraire: Colonisation et coopératives agricoles 2002/1

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2002
France, Benin, Switzerland, Chile, Ukraine, China, Australia, Ireland, Canada, Venezuela, Guinea, Colombia, Japan, Italy, Brazil, Argentina, United Kingdom, Mexico, Norway
Land & Investments
land governance
land policies
land reform
right of access
tenant's rights
farming systems
land use
land economics
land tax
land management
poverty
rural development
land tenure
land markets
leases
agrarian reform
land ownership
Land and land reform cover a great range, both in terms of the geographical and development status of the countries considered, and of the variety of perspectives on the issues. The articles in this issue of Land Reform, Land Resettlement and Cooperatives reflect this breadth in a variety of ways. The articles range geographically from the paper addressing land and agrarian reform in Colombia, by Professor Darío Fajardo, to a consideration of the land reforms currently under way in Scotland, by Douglas Macmillan, Ken Thomson and Bill Slee.