Covers land use patterns in the Cotton Belt – joint venture companies, smallholders and privados, research questions and characteristics of the 5 study zones, smallholder perceptions of land tenure security and experiences with conflict in the Cotton Belt. Challenges widely held beliefs about land tenure and access in the smallholder sector in Mozambique. Provisions in the new legal framework will not be sufficient to eliminate or adjudicate land conflicts between smallholders. The research results reveal significant variation in the size of household landholdings.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchApril, 2002Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2002Africa
A response to the Zambian Government’s August 2002 decision to consult major stakeholders on land. Zambian Land Alliance helped form Civil Society Land Policy Review Committee which aims to ensure that the remote rural poor participate in the Government Draft Land Policy review process and present their views. Paper is an initial submission on the Draft Land Policy and makes recommendations on 5 areas: vestment of land, gender, land tenure security, land administration, and land disputes resolution.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsJune, 2002Global
Armed conflicts are enemies of food security. There is a well established correlation between the exposure of countries to external or internal conflicts, and the deterioration or long-term stagnation in their food security. Most conflicts, and especially the internal conflicts that have now become the dominant model of mass violence, mainly affect rural areas and their populations.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Pakistan, Southern Asia
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2002Pakistan, Southern Asia
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2002Nepal, Southern Asia
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2002Philippines
This article summarizes the nature of land-related conflicts in the Philippines within the context of the prevailing agrarian situation throughout the country. An analysis of the agrarian institutions and different types of development that have occurred in a number of regions provide a broad representation of the current situation.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2002Mozambique
LAND DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN MOZAMBIQUE:
EVIDENCE AND INSTITUTIONS OF AGROFORESTRY
TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION
Jon Unruh
This paper was also released as CAPRi Working Paper No. 12 and is available at
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2002
Land disputes are threatening the prospects of post-war reconstruction in Afghanistan. Population growth, returning refugees, opium poppy production, ethnic tension and drought have increased the pressure on the land. A growing number of rural Afghans are either landless or own plots too small for survival. Competition over pasture is leading to armed clashes between nomads and settled farmers. Neither the Karzai government nor the international community is doing enough to restore order to land relations.
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Library ResourceLegislationApril, 2002Spain
La presente Ley de régimen del suelo y ordenación urbanística, tiene por objeto la regulación de la actividad urbanística en el Principado de Asturias, en el marco de una ordenación del territorio basada en el equilibrio entre bienestar económico y desarrollo sostenible.
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