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  1. Library Resource
    January, 2003
    Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean

    This paper examines the marginalization of women's land rights by governmental institutions and rural women's movements in Brazil.

  2. Library Resource
    Document aggregated from Resource Equity Landwise Database
    January, 2003
    Albania
  3. Library Resource
    January, 2003

    This Policy Brief is the first in the series and introduces ASB and the issues it deals with.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2003
    Thailand

    "This paper models the assimilation process of migrants and shows evidence of the complementarity between their destination experience and upon-arrival human capital. Bayesian learning and dynamics of matching are modeled and empirically assessed, using panel data of wages from the Bangkok labor market in Thailand. The analysis incorporates (1) the heterogeneity of technologies and products, characteristic of urban labor markets, (2) imperfect information on migrants' types and skill demanded in the markets, and (3) migrants' optimal learning over time.

  5. Library Resource
    January, 2003
    India, Southern Asia

    This article attempts to assess whether the promises of the Joint Forest Planning and Management (JFPM) programme initiated in the Indian state of Karnataka in 1993 have materialised in terms of villagers managing their common lands sustainably, equitably and autonomously.

  6. Library Resource
    January, 2003

    The report by the Urban Agriculture Magazine draws on numerous case studies from around the world in discussing issues of availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture.Rapid urbanisation has lead to an increasing demand for urban agricultural land. The adequate and efficient use of the land by urban farmers is of increasing concern to planners and municipal policymakers especially.Urban agriculture takes place on-plot and off-plot, and in periurban and is limited by the amount of non-built-up space.

  7. Library Resource
    January, 2003
    Indonesia, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    Overproduction of coffee and low coffee prices have resulted in a global crisis affecting the people and biodiversity of many tropical countries. The authors, from the Wildlife Conservation Society in Indonesia, describe expanding production of low-quality robusta coffee, which contributes to low prices and lowland deforestation, but is not improving the livelihood of local farmers.

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