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    Working women in an urban setting

    Reports & Research
    January, 1999
    Ghana
    gender equity in access to land

    Data collected from a 1997 household survey carried out in Accra, Ghana, are used to look at the crucial role that women play as income earners and in securing access to food in urban areas. The high number of female-headed households and the large percent of working women in the sample provide a good backdrop for looking at how women earn and spend income differently than men in an urban area. Livelihood strategies for both men and women are predominantly labor based and dependent on social networks.

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    What's Special About Wildlife Management In Forests?: Concepts And Models Of Rights-Based Management, With Recent Evidence From West-Central Africa

    January, 1999
    Mali, Sub-Saharan Africa
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    environment
    poverty
    land tenure

    Wildlife consumption is an integral part of the livelihood and trade patterns of many peoples in the developing world, and highly valued by them. Yet to date the dominant models of wildlife management in areas of high – and allegedly unsustainable – consumptive use have favoured the exclusion of the users from the resource and the denial of its local values. This gives little incentive to rural dwellers to manage wildlife sustainably.

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    Webs of power: forest loss in Guinea

    January, 2000
    Guinea, Sub-Saharan Africa
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    environment
    land degradation

    Examines the contrast between the formulation of problems in development policy, and the perspectives of villagers in Kissidougou (Guinea) in relationship to 'demonstrably' false ideas about environmental change.

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    Water harvesting and supplemental irrigation for improved water use efficiency in dry areas

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1999
    India, Libya, Syrian Arab Republic, Burkina Faso, Western Asia, Northern Africa
    farming systems
    land
    farmland

    This paper aims to describe the state of theart of both water harvesting (WH) andsupplemental irrigation (SI) techniques in the temperate and sub-tropical dry lands, especiallyin the countries of WANA that are characterized by a Mediterranean-type climate. In addition,three case studies of water harvesting are presented (see annex). These were selected from the case studies presented at the FAO Expert Consultation Cairo (1994). By sharing with us the success and the failure of these endeavors, the authors of the case studies illustrate many of the points that are made in the text.

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    Village Land Act, 1999.

    Legislation
    May, 1999
    Tanzania
    land administration

    An Act to provide for the management and administration of land in villages, and for related matters.

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    Urban Property Ownership and the Maintenance of Communal Land Rights in Zimbabwe

    Reports & Research
    September, 1999
    Zimbabwe, Africa
    Land Conflicts
    Land & Gender
    land conflicts
    property
    women
    land rights
    land

    Short summary of a Ph.D. thesis. The dominance of the white farm issue has delayed serious attention to more subtle land conflicts. Thesis focuses on the continued maintenance of communal land rights by urban property owners. Explores what would happen if these rights disappeared. In reality and in the absence of explicit state policy, poor families and women are already relinquishing these rights, which has very practical implications for urbanisation.

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