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  1. Library Resource

    Focus on Africa: Kenya Lesson Brief, Group Ranches

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Africa

    This lesson brief follows the modernization of pastoral livestock production in Kenya. This lesson brief is part of the Focus on Africa: Land Tenure and Property Rights online educational tool. Rangelands and pastoralists in Kenya have received considerable attention from government.

  2. Library Resource

    Research and Analysis from Africa, Asia, and Latin America

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2010
    Cameroon

    Drawing from field research in Cameroon, Ghana, Viet Nam, and the Amazon forests of Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru, this book explores the relationship between gender and land, revealing the workings of global capital and of people’s responses to it.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2009
    Mali

    This study by GTZ on behalf of BMZ about FDI in land has identified numerous problems that the Malian Government needs to tackle. Since 2007 foreign direct investments (FDI) in land have dramatically increased. Situated in West Africa, the Republic of Mali
    covers an area of 1,241,238 km2. Of this in 2002, 35.2 % was designated arable land and 11.6 % was cultivated land. To date, FDI covers 130,105 ha of land. The study formulates recommendations to ensure that local communities derive the best possible benefits from FDI.

  4. Library Resource

    Focus on Land in Africa: Mali Lesson Brief, Farmer-Herder Conflicts

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Africa

    This lesson brief explores the multiple independent phenomena that affect relationships between farmers and herders, as well as the nature of their conflicts over natural resources in Mali. It is part of the Focus on Land in Africa: Land Tenure and Property Rights online educational tool.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 1995
    Eastern Africa

    A comparative analysis of the development of the different land tenure systems in Kenya and Tanzania, and the merits and challenges of both.

  6. Library Resource

    We No Longer Share the Land - Oxfam Briefing Paper

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2014
    Central African Republic

    Most analyses of violence in Darfur ignore the local dimension of the crisis, focusing instead on the region’s economic and political marginalization and climatic variability. However, agricultural change and other changes relating to the land-rights and land-use systems have led to competition and exclusion, and have played a major role in the collective violence that has raged throughout the region. Understanding these questions is essential for the successful resolution of political and policy debates in Darfur.

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  7. Library Resource

    Land access and labor and income-generating opportunities

    Reports & Research
    January, 2013
    Southern Africa

    In recent years, Zambia has witnessed increased interest from private investors in acquiring land for agriculture. As elsewhere, large-scale land acquisitions are often accompanied with promises of capital investments to build infrastructure, bring new technologies and know-how, create employment, and improve market access, among other benefits

    A Case Study of Selected Agricultural Investments in Zambia (2013) 

  8. Library Resource

    Land access and labor and income-generating opportunities

    January, 2013
    Ghana, Western Africa

    Agricultural investments create risks as well as opportunities, for instance The Case Study of Integrated Tamale Fruit Company (2013) In recent years, Ghana has witnessed increased interest from private companies in developing agricultural investments. This trend is common to many lower/middle income countries.

  9. Library Resource

    Land access and labor and income-generating opportunities

    Reports & Research
    January, 2013
    Africa
  10. Library Resource
    January, 2005
    South Africa

    South African president Mbeki has characterised the developmental challenge in his country in terms of integrating the structurally disconnected ‘two economies’. On the one hand the modern industrial, mining, agricultural, financial and services sector, and on the other the ‘third world economy’ found in those urban and rural areas where the majority of poor people live.This draft chapter challenges this characterisation and focuses on the rural dimensions of the ‘two economies’ debate.

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