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    Reports & Research
    October, 2009
    Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa

    The Women’s Land Rights in Southern Africa Project (WOLAR) is aimed at enhancing women’s access to, ownership of, control over land and other productive resources and services in order to meet their basic livelihood needs and become more economically independent and secure.

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    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2009
    Mozambique

    O IESE realizou, a 22 e 23 de Abril de 2009, a sua II Conferência Científica subordinada à temática genérica “Padrões de Acumulação Económica e Dinâmicas da Pobreza em Moçambique”. Por que razão foi esta temática escolhida e o que significa?

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    Study on Community Land Rights in Niassa Province, Mozambique

    Journal Articles & Books
    June, 2009
    Mozambique

    The main aim of this study was to assess, within the context of the Malonda Programme
    in Niassa Province, the implementation of community consultations and negotiations as
    well as the delimitation and demarcation of community land. These activities had been
    carried out within the context of requests from several investors concerning the Right to
    Use and Exploit Land (Portuguese acronym DUAT, Direito de Uso e Aproveitamento
    de Terra), in order to create extensive commercial forest plantations in Niassa. The

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2009
    Mozambique

    Entre 25 e 26 de Março, realizou-se em Maputo um workshop de alto nível envolvendo dirigentes governativos, de empresas ligadas a indústrias de recursos naturais e sociedade civil de vários países Africanos. O workshop tinha como tema melhorar o impacto das indústrias de recursos naturais através do uso efectivo de receitas e da responsabilidade social corporativa. Este IDeIAS surge como resultado da reflexão sobre alguns dos pontos discutidos nesse workshop.

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    Reports & Research
    July, 2009
    Mozambique

    In Mozambique, the debate on agrofuels has steadily advanced over the last five years, fueled by industry speculation and demand, grand promises and foreign interests. Investors have applied for rights to close to 5 million hectares in Mozambique in 2007 alone, nearly one-seventh of the country’s officially defined “arable” land and is rushing to create favorable conditions for investors at the cost of civil rights of Mozambicans.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2009
    Mozambique

    Land is critical to the economic, social and cultural development of many countries.

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    Paving the Way for Development? cover image

    The Impact of Transport Infrastructure on Agricultural Production and Poverty Reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Reports & Research
    December, 2009
    Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Given its vast land resources and favorable water supply, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC’s) natural agricultural potential is immense. However, the economic potential of the sector is handicapped by one of the most dilapidated transport systems in the developing world (World Bank 2006). Road investments are therefore a high priority in the government’s investment plans and those of its major donors.

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    Impacts of Land Certification on Tenure Security, Investment, and Land Markets  cover image

    Evidence from Ethiopia

    Reports & Research
    April, 2009
    Ethiopia

    While early attempts at land titling in Africa were often unsuccessful, the need to secure land rights has kindled renewed interest, in view of increased demand for land, a range of individual and communal rights available under new laws, and reduced costs from combining information technology with participatory methods. We used a difference-in-difference approach to assess the effects of a low-cost land registration program in Ethiopia, which covered some 20 million plots over five years, on investment.

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