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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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Program participation in a targeted land distribution program and household outcomes: evidence from Vietnam

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Vietnam
land distribution
land reform
poverty
land policies
land law
We estimate whether a land reform program led to higher incomes for ethnic minority households. In 2002, in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, Program 132 directed the transfer of farm land to ethnic minority households that had less than one hectare of land. Using the 2002 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey as a baseline, in 2008 we resurveyed over one-thousand households to provide a retrospective evaluation of the impact of their participation in Program 132.
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Land degradation, poverty and marginality

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land management
land degradation
poverty
agriculture
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Bioenergy and African transformation

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Brazil, Africa
Land & Food Security
land use
food security
poverty
Among the world’s continents, Africa has the highest incidence of food insecurity and poverty and the highest rates of population growth. Yet Africa also has the most arable land, the lowest crop yields, and by far the most plentiful land resources relative to energy demand. It is thus of interest to examine the potential of expanded modern bioenergy production in Africa. Here we consider bioenergy as an enabler for development, and provide an overview of modern bioenergy technologies with a comment on application in an Africa context.
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Threatened access, risk of eviction and forest degradation: case study of sustainability problem in a remote rural region in India

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2012
India
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
poverty
grazing
land tenure
Degradation of common pool resource (CPR) in developing countries has often been traced to high rate attached by poor people in discounting future flow of benefits, market failure, pressure on carrying capacity or sometimes property right failure. However, the concept of poorly enforced property right and particularly risk of eviction as a measure of insecurity of land tenure has not been adequately examined in the context of degradation of CPR.
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Carbon management in dryland agricultural systems. A review

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Land, Climate Change & Environment
desertification
land degradation
poverty
land use
Dryland areas cover about 41 % of the Earth’s surface and sustain over 2 billion inhabitants. Soil carbon (C) in dryland areas is of crucial importance to maintain soil quality and productivity and a range of ecosystem services. Soil mismanagement has led to a significant loss of carbon in these areas, which in many of them entailed several land degradation processes such as soil erosion, reduction in crop productivity, lower soil water holding capacity, a decline in soil biodiversity, and, ultimately, desertification, hunger and poverty in developing countries.
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Ecohealth and Aboriginal Testimony of the Nexus Between Human Health and Place

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
Australia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land management
poverty
Indigenous Peoples
The spread of industrial civilizations has been particularly traumatic for the last remaining hunter-gatherer societies. Manifestations of this include expatriation from ancestral lands, sickness, poverty, and environmental degradation. Northern Australia has been no exception despite remaining a stronghold of Aboriginal cultures and still containing vast areas of relatively intact landscapes. Most Aboriginal people reside in remote settlements where they remain on the negative extreme of basic indicators such as life expectancy and educational attainment.
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Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
food security
farmers
climate change
land tenure
fisheries
poverty
BACKGROUND: Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) addresses the challenge of meeting the growing demand for food, fibre and fuel, despite the changing climate and fewer opportunities for agricultural expansion on additional lands. CSA focuses on contributing to economic development, poverty reduction and food security; maintaining and enhancing the productivity and resilience of natural and agricultural ecosystem functions, thus building natural capital; and reducing trade-offs involved in meeting these goals.
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Agrobiodiversity for food security, health and income

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Africa, Asia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
climate change
food security
poverty
land degradation
farmers
By the year 2050, agriculture will have to provide the food and nutrition requirements of some 9 billion people. Moreover, to maintain that level of productivity indefinitely it must do so using environmentally sustainable production systems. This task will be profoundly complicated by the effects of climate change, increasing competition for water resources and loss of productive lands.