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Irrigation intervention: a strategy for conserving bio-diversity and improving food security in Royal Chitwan national park bufferzone, Nepal

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2003
Nepal
Land & Food Security
water rights
food security
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The Investigation of the Effects of Conservation and Tourism on Land Tenure and Ownership Patterns in KwaZulu-Natal

DISCUSSION OF ISSUES AND FINDINGS

Reports & Research
January, 2004
Africa, South Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
advocacy
food security
land access
land rights
tenure security
Globally, the conservation and tourism sector is being enthusiastically promoted as one of the key mechanisms to catalyze rural local economic development. This is particularly relevant in South Africa where tourism is considered an important sector for Black Economic Empowerment and community development. However, there is increasing concern that the impact of tourism and conservation on local communities is not always beneficial and can include a range of negative livelihoods consequences.
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Are rural women disadvantaged in asset ownership and business relations in the Kyrgyz Republic?

January, 2004
Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Armenia, Russia, Europe
Land & Gender
Land & Food Security
food security
land tenure
poverty
women
agriculture
capacity building
This paper examines how, over the past 10 years, Kyrgyzstan has privatised most of its agricultural land and distributed it to individual households. These households either farm alone or join together and farm cooperatively. This research seeks to examine whether women have been adversely affected in the process of privatisation, asset ownership, or business development.
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Gender and access to land

January, 2003
Land & Food Security
food security
land administration
land tenure
land
land access
rural development
This paper explores gender and issues of land access and administration in rural development. It argues that increasing social, economic and technological changes are requiring a re-examination of the institutional arrangements used to administer who has rights to what resources and under what conditions.
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Gender and sustainable development in drylands: an analysis of field experiences

January, 2003
Kenya, Burkina Faso, Morocco, South Africa, Mali, China, Mauritania, India, Senegal, Sudan, Niger, Oceania, Western Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Northern Africa, Eastern Asia, Southern Asia
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
Land & Food Security
development
land
sustainable development
land tenure
food security
With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland management based on an analysis of field experiences in Africa and Asia. Highlighting the roles of women and men in dryland areas for food security, land conservation/desertification, and the conservation of biodiversity, it makes available key findings on a number of projects and programs in the regions.
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Land tenure systems and their impacts on food security and sustainable development in Africa

January, 2004
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
Land & Food Security
development
land
sustainable development
land tenure
land distribution
food security
rural development
land registration
land tenure systems
land ownership
Recent food security crises in Africa have revived the debate on whether current land tenure systems constrain farmer innovation and investment in agriculture. Both direct and indirect linkages between land tenure and food security have been suggested. This study aims for a better understanding of these linkages.
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A note on food security and land tenure security in Lesotho

January, 2004
Sub-Saharan Africa
Land & Food Security
land
food security
land tenure
In this note of food security and land tenure security in Lesotho, the authors present arguments in favour of the enactment and implementation of a legislation in Lesotho that will enhance land tenure security in the country.
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Child farm labor: the wealth paradox

January, 2003
Land & Food Security
food security
agriculture
land ownership
land tenure
This paper is motivated by the observation that children in land-rich households are often more likely to be in work than the children of land-poor households.The vast majority of working children in developing countries are in agricultural work, predominantly on farms operated by their families. Land is the most important store of wealth in agrarian societies and it is typically distributed very unequally. These facts challenge the common presumption that child labour emerges from the poorest households.
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Poverty, institutions, peasant band conservation investment in Northern Ethiopia

January, 2003
Ethiopia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land & Food Security
food security
land tenure
land
poverty
agriculture
This PhD thesis provides an econometric analysis of various aspects of the rural economy in Northern Ethiopia.The thesis consists of five papers:an in-depth analysis of poverty, its distribution, dynamics and its correlates within the framework of the role of economic reforms on poverty reduction in a remote, unstable and environmentally troubled regionlooks at the issue of the efficacy of a micro-finance program in reaching out to the poor and measures the impact of program participationexamines the efficacy of food-for-work (FFW) programs in targeting the poor by emphasizing the role of F
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Reasons for food insecurity of farm households in South Wollo, Ethiopia: explanations at grassroots

January, 2004
Ethiopia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land & Food Security
food security
poverty
land tenure
This paper takes a grassroots approach to understand the causes of the variation in food security status among rural farm households Ethiopia.The research is carried out by the Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Market Systems (BASIS) project in Ethiopia which conducted a panel of household surveys since June 2000 in four study districts in South Wollo and Oromia zones of Amhara region.