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  1. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    September, 1965
    Africa, Eastern Africa

    La sous- région da l'Afrique de l’est couvre une superficie total a de

    quelque-5,5 millions de kilomètres carres, soit environ 18 pour 100 de la superficie du continent. Située approximativement entre 13° de latitude nord et 25° de latitude sud, elle est limitée a l’ouest par le Soudan, le Congo et l'Angola et au sud par le Mozambique et l'Afrique du Sud.

  2. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    October, 1985
    Ethiopia

    The main objectives of the cooperative societies of the 1960’s were the promotion, in accordance with cooperative principles and the requirements of social justice, of better living, better business and better methods of production by reducing the cost of credit, etc. Most of the societies then were farmers' cooperatives whose membership were composed of land owners, provincial and district Governors businessmen, etc. The leadership was also controlled by the same people.

  3. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    September, 1965
    Africa, Eastern Africa

    This paper focuses on East Africa: development trends and problems. The East African sub-region onglobes a total area of about 5.5 million kilometers or about 18 percent of the continent’s area.

  4. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2012
    Eastern Africa

    This paper is focuses on Sub-regional knowledge exchange and capacity building workshop on the economic valuation of land and ecosystem services: final report. The overall objective of the workshop was to build the capacity of key actors involved in land use decisions in relation to the assessment of the real value of land, the understanding of the multiple benefits originating from ecosystem services, and the awareness of tools, methodologies, institutions and processes that can facilitate SLM adoption

  5. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2018
    Africa, Eastern Africa, Ethiopia

    Different government institutions in Ethiopia are working on land related issues to tackle and manage data and information independently from each other, even though their activities and mandates are often related or even overlap. Those institutions do not have a shared modern information management system to properly compile and store data in such a way that users from other relevant institutions can access and share such data and resources for better planning and informed decision making.

  6. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    July, 2017
    Tanzania, Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa

    In pastoral societies women face many challenges. Some describe these as a ‘double burden’ –
    that is, as pastoralists and as women. However, pastoral women may obtain a significant degree
    of protection from customary law even if customary institutions are male-dominated. In periods
    of change (economic, social, political), this protection may be lost, and without protection from
    statutory laws, women are in danger of “falling between two stools” (Adoko and Levine 2009). A

  7. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    November, 2017
    Tanzania, Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa

    In Tanzania, ongoing land insecurity is a structural cause of food insecurity particularly for
    pastoralists, agro-pastoralists and small-scale crop farmers leading to land use conflicts,
    compromised access to resources including grazing and water and rangeland degradation.
    Land tenure security and management can be improved through village land use planning (VLUP)
    and land certification – namely the issuing of certificates of customary rights of occupancy
    (CCROs). In situations where villages share resources such as grazing areas and water, joint village

  8. Library Resource
    Catalyzing the Land Data Ecosystem

    Workshop Report: State of Land Data and Information in East Africa

    Conference Papers & Reports
    July, 2019
    Africa, Eastern Africa, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda

    There is no doubt that the Global Data Revolution has reached the land sector. Government data portals, open access academic journals, community mapping initiatives and other citizen-generated data - there is a palpable positive drive across the world that allows processes such as data collection to be more inclusive and open. But within this data momentum, there are still many barriers and questions: Who can access the data, and how? What data is reliable? Who owns the data? What data is up to date? Can I use the data without inflicting harm?

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