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Does Land Ownership Make a Difference? Women's Roles in Agriculture in Kerala, India

January, 1999
India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
land
women
land
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On the move : mobility, land use and livelihood practices on the Central Plateau in Burkina Faso

Reports & Research
December, 1998
Burkina Faso
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agricultural land management
agriculture
farming systems
farmland
households
land use
land-use planning
migration
Chapter 2 situates the scene by presenting the historical background to the research area. First, a brief outline of the research village's history is provided. The main part of the chapter is devoted to the elaboration of case material relating to a number of conflicts over land, along the border between the kingdom of Ratenga and the kombere of Piugtenga and in which the village of Ziinoogo has been involved.
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Report of the high level expert group meeting on agriculture and environment

Reports & Research
December, 1998
Africa
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
agricultural land management
food security
sustainable land management
rural population
environment
urban population
agriculture
Food insecurity is expected to accelerate substantially in sub-Saharan Africa where available evidence suggests that environmental degradation such as soil erosion, desertification and deforestation is seriously depend for increasing their agricultural productivity. As a result, about 44 percent of Africa's population live below the poverty line earning an income of about $39 per month.
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Guidelines for Integrating Gender Analysis into Biodiversity Research

Training Resources & Tools
September, 1998
Global
Land & Gender
Land & Food Security
land rights
food security
rural development
research
How can gender be mainstreamed into programmes concerned with the sustainable use and management of biodiversity? The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has produced guidelines on how to integrate gender analysis into biodiversity research. The central role played by women in the maintenance of rural lands, and changing gender roles and relations resulting from cost of living rises and increased migration, are highlighted.
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Rural livelihood diversity in developing countries: evidence and policy implications

January, 1999
Land & Food Security
food security
poverty
land tenure
Examines livelihood diversification as a survival strategy of rural households in developing countries. Although still of central importance, farming on its own is increasingly unable to provide a sufficient means of survival in rural areas.
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Social Exclusion and Land Administration in Orissa, India

January, 1999
India, Europe, Southern Asia
Land & Food Security
food security
land administration
land registration
land
poverty
land tenure
land reform
land ownership
Examines—from the perspective of transaction costs—factors that constrain access to land for the rural poor and other socially excluded groups in India. They find that: Land reform has reduced large landholdings since the 1950s. Medium-size farms have gained most. Formidable obstacles still prevent the poor from gaining access to land. The complexity of land revenue administration in Orissa is partly the legacy of distinctly different systems, which produced more or less complete and accurate land records.
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Access to Land in Rural India

January, 1999
India, Europe, Southern Asia
Land & Gender
Land & Food Security
food security
land reform
land registration
land
poverty
land law
land tenure
land ownership
women
Access to land is deeply important in rural India, where the incidence of poverty is highly correlated with lack of access to land. Mearns provides a framework for assessing alternative approaches to improving access to land by India's rural poor.
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Country Profiles of Land Tenure: Africa, 1996

January, 1998
Sub-Saharan Africa
Land & Food Security
food security
land tenure
land
land law
land reform
land ownership
These Country Profiles represent a new edition of a continent-wide set of profiles prepared and published by the Land Tenure Center in 1986. This new volume reflects a decade of intensive work on the continent by LTC and a very considerable deepening of knowledge and understanding of land tenure issues in Africa. It addresses events of the past ten years, which have been substantial in many of the countries covered. Land tenure continues to be a volatile policy domain. The standard topics from the earlier profiles have been revised to take into account new development concerns.
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The Evolution of Poverty and Inequality in Indian Villages

January, 1999
India, Southern Asia
Land & Food Security
food security
poverty
land tenure
Continued agricultural growth and diversification into nonagricultural activities are essential if India is to continue reducing rural poverty. But policymakers hoping to alleviate rural poverty must also be aware of the causes and implications of persisting, if not increasing, inequality within villages. Jayaraman and Lanjouw review longitudinal village studies from a variety of disciplinary perspectives to identify changes in living standards in rural India in recent decades.
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Rural women’s access to land in Latin America

January, 1999
Latin America and the Caribbean
Land & Gender
Land & Food Security
land
land tenure
food security
land access
women
Paper addresses the following concerns:rural women have limited access to and control of landmost agrarian reforms and legislation that directly or indirectly regulate access to land discriminate against womenthe establishment of legal frameworks with a gender perspective and the elimination of cultural and institutional factors that prevent the recognition of women as producers are essential to safeguard rural women’s access to land.Merely introducing principles of equality into constitutions and in certain norms is not sufficient.