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    Comunicações apresentadas na Conferencia do Instituto de Estudos Sociais e económicos

    Reports & Research
    October, 2010
    Mozambique

    A experiência económica de Moçambique é frequentemente  apresentada como  um  exemplo  de  sucesso  na  promoção  de  rápido  crescimento  com estabilização e redução da pobreza. O grau e a robustez do sucesso económico moçambicano  são  determinados  pela  magnitude  das  taxas  de  variação,  isto  é, por quanto é que a economia cresce e a pobreza reduz, e por quão estáveis são (ou  por  quão  pouco  variam)  os  indicadores  monetários,  chave  da  abordagem monetarista de estabilização (inflação, reservas internacionais e taxa de câmbio).

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    The Case of Biofuel and Forestry Investments in Kilwa and Kilolo

    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Tanzania

    New commercial pressures on land and its impact on small producers is one of the major issues being discussed in both national and international arenas. As foreign states and corporate entities continue to exert pressures on African countries to acquire land for various investment purposes, Tanzania is not exempted. The country is stereotypically perceived as having large underutilized, or rather unexploited, fertile land – the so-called ‗virgin land‘.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Cambodia

    The impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production in Southeast Asia will be largely mediated through water, but climate is only one driver of change. Water resources in the region will be shaped by a complex mixture of social, economic and environmental factors.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2010
    New Zealand

    This paper updates an analysis of returns from major productive land uses in New Zealand carried out in 2008. Trends in profitability over time are shown, and a preliminary investigation of the relationship between land-use change towards forestry (new land planting) and forestry profitability is described.

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    Customary land reform
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Zambia

    In the name of development, governments in southern Africa are reformulating land policies to facilitate privatisation of customary land rights. It is argued that this can stimulate land markets, (foreign) private investment, access to formal credit, and enhance security of tenure (by way of holding title), thereby leading to economic growth and poverty alleviation.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Mozambique

    Este é o segundo número da série “Desafios para Moçambique”, iniciada pelo IESE no ano de 2010, e que tem como objectivo primeiro contribuir para o debate público sobre temas relevantes da vida do país. Reflectindo a decisão editorial tomada no início da série, este livro reúne trabalhos de investigadores permanentes e associados do IESE e contribuições de outros autores de reconhecido mérito, numa construção única, mas rica, de diferentes experiências, abordagens e posições sobre algumas das grandes questões que a sociedade moçambicana enfrenta, ou deve enfrentar.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Cambodia

    The current study attempts to examine whether large-scale agricultural investment of this type benefits the poor and how this investment can be implemented to increase benefits for the poor. It is arguable whether the poor need more land to grow crops to meet their food security requirements or need to benefit from large-scale agricultural investment in Cambodia. Although the poor households are capable of operating small plots of a few hectares each, they generally lack capital and the means to work large chunks of new land with forests or degrade forests.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Mozambique

    The complex relationship between law, land rights and customary practices is increasingly recognized as foundational to formulating successful development policies. Similarly, the essential role of women’s economic participation to development and the current trend of gender discriminatory land and inheritance customary practices have prompted domestic civil society organizations in developing countries to use statutory provisions guaranteeing gender equality to improve women’s land tenure security.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2010
    Mozambique

    A ideia de realização do estudo teve como inspiração o facto de  haverem fortes indícios de  que,  de  forma  crescente  e  persistente,  tem  se  registado  a  nível  de  todo  o  país  uma gestão  da  terra  e  dos  outros  recursos  naturais  contraditória  ao  estabelecido  nas  leis, normas e regras de gestão destes bens  públicos  por parte das instituições estatais, o que resulta  numa  distribuição  não  equitativa,  e  até  mesmo  restritiva,  dos  direitos  das comunidades  locais  e  de  outros  sectores  vulneráveis  da  sociedade,  precarizando  a  luta contr

  10. Library Resource
    Evaluating the impacts

    Customary Rights and Societal Stakes in the Copperbelt of Zambia

    Reports & Research
    January, 2011
    Zambia

    This paper analyzes the implications of copper mining in Zambia on customary rights to land and forests, and the societal stakes associated with foreign investment in the mining industry. Copper mining affects forests, and in turn the people with customary rights to those forests, in a number of direct and indirect ways, from deforestation during green site development and selective harvesting of timber to the significant but indirect pressures over forests through infrastructure development and the population pull effect of mining towns.

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