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Concession or cooperation? Impacts of recent rubber investment on land tenure and livelihoods: A case study from Oudomxai Province, Lao PDR

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Laos
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
food security
land investments
land acquisitions
land grabbing
title deeds
land titling
poverty
The research team set out to answer three research questions: 1) What are rubber investment’s key features with regard to the investment process, investor identity, location, activities and scale? 2) How was the “upland” landscape originally zoned and mapped as part of the LFA process, and later re-zoned and mapped by local authorities and foreign investors? 3) What are the impacts of rubber investment in upland areas on the land use and livelihoods of the villagers involved?
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Industrialization and Urbanization in Vietnam: How Appropriation of Agricultural Land Use Rights Transformed Farmers’ Livelihoods in a Peri-Urban Hanoi Village

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Vietnam
Land & Food Security
Urban Tenure
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
food security
land distribution
land reform
title deeds
land titling
poverty
urban areas
ABSTRACTED FROM INTRODUCTION: Since đổi mới, Vietnam witnesses a rapid urbanization and industrialization, which leads to conversions of a large area of agricultural land and other types of land, and this has forced thousands of farmer households to change their traditional livelihoods and even their lives. Using the lens of a sustainable livelihoods framework, this study analyzes and explains the questions of how, in what ways and to what extent agricultural land conversions have been affecting farmer livelihoods in one peri-urban Hanoi village.
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FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission to Myanmar - Special Report.

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Myanmar
Land & Food Security
food security
poverty
land policies
land law
ABSTRACTED FROM THE OVERVIEW: At the request of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation of Myanmar (MOAI), a joint FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM)) team visited the country from 5 October to 4 November 2008. The main objective of the Mission was to analyze the food supply situation for the forthcoming year at the national and subnational levels (particularly in Cyclone Nargis-affected areas) and estimate food and agricultural assistance needs.
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IFPRI Annual Report 2008-2009

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Land & Food Security
food security
poverty
agriculture
farming systems
agricultural land management
natural resources management
capacity development
In 2008, a year in which the global population—particularly the world’s poor—was confronted by both the financial and food-price crises, agricultural systems faced changes that led to market disruptions, reduced growth, mass protests, and a string of political efforts to reshape the design and governance of food systems.
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The State of the then NAFCO, NARCO and Absentee Landlords' Farms/Ranches in Tanzania

Reports & Research
February, 2009
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
advocacy
agrarian reform
agrarian structure
agricultural and rural legislation
common lands
concession (land)
customary land rights
customary law
displacement
eminent domain
grazing land rights
land grabbing
land reform
The study sought to determine the state of farms that belonged to the then National Agricultural Corporation (NAFCO), ranches that belong to the National Ranching Company (NAFCO) and land belonging to absentee landlords. Since any state is dynamic, this research report, then, is a socio-historical account of what has been happening within/out more than 543,604 hectares of ranch/farmland in the wake of the fall of nationalization and rise of privatization.
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FEMACT Loliondo Findings

Reports & Research
August, 2009
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
advocacy
agrarian reform
community land rights
compulsory acquisitions
concession (land)
eminent domain
grazing land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
land investments
Over the Last three months, acts of unconceivable evil were perpetrated through an eviction operation against indigenous pastoralists in Loliondo. Loliondo is one of the three Divisions of the Ngorongoro District situated in the Arusha Region in Northern Tanzania. The Ngorongoro District Covers an area of about 14037 square Kilometres. Stretching across some 8,300 sq km, is the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, established in 1959 and governed by the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority, and the rest is the Loliondo Game Control Area consisting of the Sale and Loliondo Divisions.
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A Lei de Terras, de Minas e Sistemas de Direitos Consuetudinários

Conference Papers & Reports
April, 2009
Brazil
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agricultural and rural legislation
agriculture
communal territory
development
development agencies
environment
food security
natural resources management
nature reserves
rural development
sustainable development
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
territory
O presente trabalho é assente no cruzamento e análise dos conteúdos da legislação de terras1 , de minas e do reconhecimento pelo Estado das Autoridades Locais, em Moçambique. Será ainda baseado na análise da literatura e estudos realizados relacionados com estas áreas. Ao longo da presente abordagem far‐se‐á uma análise do regime jurídico relativo à descentralização administrativa, desenvolvimento comunitário e participação das comunidades locais.
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Accelerating Pro-poor Growth in the Context of Kilimo Kwanza

Conference Papers & Reports
November, 2009
Tanzania
Land & Food Security
agrarian reform
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
agriculture
Since early 1990’s Tanzania has implemented far reaching macroeconomic and structural reforms which has led to substantial socio-economic development. GDP growth per annum has almost doubled over the last decade from 4.1% in 1998 to 7.4% in 2008, with an average growth of 7% per annum. This is historically high for Tanzania and comparable to the performance of fastest growing economies in sub-Saharan Africa. GDP growth peaked in 2004 at 7.8%, but severe and prolonged drought during 2005/06 negatively affected the economy, and the GDP has been gradually recovering to reach 7.4% in 2008.
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Paving the Way for Development?

The Impact of Transport Infrastructure on Agricultural Production and Poverty Reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Land & Food Security
food security
geographical information systems
land investments
land markets
poverty
research
rural development
Given its vast land resources and favorable water supply, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC’s) natural agricultural potential is immense. However, the economic potential of the sector is handicapped by one of the most dilapidated transport systems in the developing world (World Bank 2006). Road investments are therefore a high priority in the government’s investment plans and those of its major donors.
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Impacts of Land Certification on Tenure Security, Investment, and Land Markets

Evidence from Ethiopia

Reports & Research
April, 2009
Ethiopia
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
capacity development
land investments
land markets
land policies
land rights
land titling
research
tenure security
While early attempts at land titling in Africa were often unsuccessful, the need to secure land rights has kindled renewed interest, in view of increased demand for land, a range of individual and communal rights available under new laws, and reduced costs from combining information technology with participatory methods. We used a difference-in-difference approach to assess the effects of a low-cost land registration program in Ethiopia, which covered some 20 million plots over five years, on investment.