Effective land policy reform is strewn with complexities and pitfalls. The paper focuses on land tenure, access and use in rural settings, and suggests that Latin America is home to some worrisome trends as well as the rich array of initiatives on land issues. By surveying the literature and examining the issues this study points to areas needing attention from researchers and policymakers.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2004Brazil, South America, Central America, Northern America
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 1976Ecuador
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMay, 2019Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan has embarked on significant reforms since early 2017, aiming to improve the lives of ordinary citizens, enable business development, and open up to neighbors. The scale of changes is unprecedented. The new government aspires to modernize the country and to move it toward upper middle-income status. The formulation of the country partnership strategy (CPS) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is timely for supporting this reform agenda through investment financing, policy support, and capacity development.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2014Tajikistan
After more than two decades of agrarian change in Tajikistan, farming structures seem to crystallise. The first signs towards farm individualisation were observed only around 2000, which were the result of significant pressure from outside, when the post-conflict state was highly susceptible to pressure from multilateral institutions. Over time, striking differences in agrarian structures have emerged nation-wide; from highly fragmented, autonomous farms, to elite-controlled large-scale cotton farming.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationMarch, 2014Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Each of the post-Soviet Central Asian states inherited both inefficient collectivized agricultural systems and an understanding of the nation rooted in categories defined by Soviet nationality policy. Despite the importance placed on territorial homelands in many contemporary understandings of nationalism, the divergent formal responses to these dual Soviet legacies have generally been studied in isolation from one another.
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Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsJournal Articles & BooksPolicy Papers & BriefsFebruary, 2021Kenya
With the promulgation of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 (CoK 2010), land was classified into public, private and community lands, occasioning the need for clear guidelines on acquisition of public land acquisition within the community land while appreciating the provision of the Community Land Act, 2016.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksAugust, 2016Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, BrazilII Seminário Governança de Terras e Desenvolvimento Econômico (1.: 2016: Campinas, SP)Coletânea [recurso eletrônico] / II Seminário Governança de Terras e Desenvolvimento Econômico, 4 a 5 de agosto de 2016, Campinas, SP – Campinas: Unicamp. IE, 2016.Disponível em: <http://governancadeterras.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Anais-2016.pdf> ISBN 978-85-86215-88-9.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2017Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, BrazilO quadro legal e institucional, construído historicamente, que regulamenta a propriedade e a posse da terra no Brasil tem sido responsável por vários tipos de problemas fundiários no país que vão desde os conflitos de terras rurais, a ausência de moradias urbanas, as ocupações de terras rurais e urbanas (por alguns, chamadas de invasões), o desmatamento das florestas tropicais, a grande concen- tração da terra tanto rural quanto urbana à insegurança jurídica da terra em geral.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2000Colombia
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchNovember, 1987Colombia
Analiza los distintos sistemas productivos que coexisten en el sector rural en Colombia, e intenta determinar la importancia de las formas asociativas campesinas de produccion y trabajo, y presentar sus caracteristicas principales.
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