The poor in Mozambique survive off the land, but what would the consequences be if the land was privatised? This paper looks at how Mozambique is approaching issues surrounding land usage and ownership as market reforms take place and the land becomes increasingly susceptible to being opened up to the market.A historical background to the issue of land use and ownership in Africa is given, from colonisation to the impact of globalisation and the market in present day Africa.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2002Mozambique
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Library ResourceAgreements & ContractsJanuary, 2002Mozambique
Contrato de prospecção , pesquisa, desenvolvimento e produção de mineras pesados nas áreas de Moma, Congolene e Quinga entre o Ministério dos Recursos Minerais e Kemmare Moma Mining Lda.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsJanuary, 2002Sub-Saharan Africa, Mozambique
Brief overview of the policy background to the land reform process in Mozambique, and a very generalised assessment of the extent to which this reform is improving the livelihoods of Mozambican rural people.The paper focuses on the experiences of the land component of Zambézia Agricultural Development Project (ZADP) . It looks at the extent to which the objective of the new land tenure policy in alleviating poverty has been realised and have concentrated on the contextual, practical and conceptual challenges that have faced a provincial programme of land tenure reform.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2002Mozambique
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institutions and evidence of agroforestry technology adoption
Policy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2001Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, MozambiqueSuccessful adoption of natural resource management technologies requires that important fundamentals of property rights be established. Because disputes over property rights occur universally, the ability to successfully defend one's rights to property exercises a central influence on the tenure security necessary for technology adoption. However, defending rights to property rests upon the possession of evidence that is readily available and widely regarded as legitimate.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2001Mozambique, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, Mali, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, Tanzania, South Africa, Ghana, Malawi, Mexico, Brazil, Africa, Americas
In November 2000, the World Bank (WB) and the Brazilian Federation for Direct Planting into Crop Residue (FEBRAPDP) organized the third Study Tour on “Producer-Led Rural Organizations for Sustainable Land Management” (PRO-SLM), with particular emphasis on notillage systems (NT).1 The Study Tour followed a 10-day itinerary of over 1,000 km through Southern Brazil, covering Paraná and Santa Catarina States, two states which received WB support through land and micro-watershed management projects.</p> This Paper presents the salient features of NT development in Southern Brazil and discu
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2001Mozambique, Philippines, Italy
Issues relating to land and land reform have been moving up the agenda of rural poverty and food security in recent years with the increasing acceptance that the prerequisites for broad-based and equitable development include the essential need for people to have access to land and other natural resources. Access needs to be on an equitable basis allowing the poor and the disadvantaged, including women, to secure the assets needed for them and their families to generate sustainable livelihoods.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2001Mozambique, Estonia, Australia, Kenya, Zambia, Albania, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Bulgaria, Argentina, India, Namibia
A cinco años de la Cumbre Mundial sobre la Alimentación, y a inicios del siglo XXI, El estado mundial de la agricultura y la alimentación reflexiona sobre algunos de los principales desafíos que plantea la erradicación mundial del hambre y la pobreza. Esta empresa puede ser temible, pero lo es también el número de personas con hambre y subnutridas cuyo destino depende de una intervención acelerada y decidida. Un compromiso renovado y firme, a través de un esfuerzo concertado, permitiría cumplir el objetivo de la Cumbre Mundial sobre los Alimentos.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2001France, Bangladesh, Honduras, Kenya, Mali, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Vanuatu, Iran, Costa Rica, Niger, Mozambique, Laos, Philippines, Vietnam, Portugal, Paraguay, Gabon
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2001Angola, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Malawi, Africa
Proceedings of the meeting including a summary of the resulting recommendations and the text of papers presented.
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