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Guyana / Les Guyanes: ethnic/linguistic groups, land use, research projects (FTRP / APFT)

January, 1999
Guyana, Latin America and the Caribbean
land
land use
research
land tenure
agriculture
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Access to Land in Rural India

January, 1999
India, Europe, Southern Asia
Land & Gender
Land & Food Security
food security
land reform
land registration
land
poverty
land law
land tenure
land ownership
women
Access to land is deeply important in rural India, where the incidence of poverty is highly correlated with lack of access to land. Mearns provides a framework for assessing alternative approaches to improving access to land by India's rural poor.
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Deforestation and Land Use on the Evolving Frontier: An Empirical Assessment [in Nicaragua]

January, 1999
Nicaragua, Latin America and the Caribbean
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
forestry
land
land use
land tenure
environment
deforestation
assessment
The advance of the agricultural frontier constitutes the biggest source of deforestation in Central America today. This conversion of tropical forests into agricultural land and pasture is the direct result of individual land use decisions. This paper presents a simple analytical model of household land use, followed by an econometric analysis of household survey data from the Río San Juan region of Nicaragua in order to test for consistency with the model.
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Peasant women and access to land : customary law, state law and gender-based ideology : the case of the Toba-Batak (North Sumatra)

Reports & Research
December, 1998
Land & Gender
land
property
land
land ownership
farmers
land use
zoning
women
<p>This study is about opportunities, constraints and strategies regarding access to land of peasant women who live in the changing Toba-Batak patrilineal community of North Sumatra. Their access to land is seen in the wider context of the ongoing pressure of land scarcity due to individualization, statization and privatization of communal land. The study challenges the adequacy of ongoing research on peasant women's access rights to land in developing countries.
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In the name of the land : organization, transnationalism, and the culture of the state in a Mexican Ejido

Reports & Research
December, 1998
Mexico
agrarian reform
land reform
land ownership
land management
farmers
rural development
<p>This study is based on research carried out during several periods from mid 1991 to mid 1995 in the ejido La Canoa in Jalisco, western Mexico, and in several government agencies. The study focuses in particular on the period between the 1930s and 1992 when the Mexican agrarian law was fundamentally changed.
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Farmer participatory research in soil management and varietal selection in Thailand

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1998
Thailand, Asia, South-Eastern Asia
land use
land management
research
farmers
A pilot project on the use of Farmer Participatory Research (FPR) methodologies with the objective of enhancing farmer adoption of practices that minimize soil erosion in cassava-based cropping systems, was conducted jointly by DOA and DOAE with technical and financial support from CIAT in two sites in Nakhon Ratchasima and Sra Kaew provinces. The activities involved a preliminary survey using RRA methodologies, the setting out of demonstration plots, as well as farmers meetings and farmers field trips to observe the demonstration plots.
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Farmer participatory research in soil management in Indonesia

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1998
Indonesia, Asia, South-Eastern Asia
land use
land management
research
farmers
Soil degradation, both due to soil erosion and nutrient removal, is a major problem in cassava fields. Most of the existing management technologies that have been developed have had little success in adoption. Some of the reasons are that the technology developed is technically oriented, based on experiment station research with very little farmer involvement.
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Farmer participatory research in cassava soil management and varietal dissemination in Vietnam

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1998
land use
land management
research
farmers
Farmer Participatory Research (FPR) in Vietnam has been carried out since 1994 in collaboration with CIAT, with the objective of improving the adoption of soil conservation practices in cassava fields. Two villages in Pho Yen district, Bac Thai province; one in Thanh Hoa district, Vinh Phu province; and one in Luong Son district of Hoa Binh province were selected as pilot sites for implementing the FPR methodology.
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Report of the high level expert group meeting on agriculture and environment

Reports & Research
December, 1998
Africa
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
agricultural land management
food security
sustainable land management
rural population
environment
urban population
agriculture
Food insecurity is expected to accelerate substantially in sub-Saharan Africa where available evidence suggests that environmental degradation such as soil erosion, desertification and deforestation is seriously depend for increasing their agricultural productivity. As a result, about 44 percent of Africa's population live below the poverty line earning an income of about $39 per month.
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Child survival determinants in tile arid and semi-arid lands

Reports & Research
September, 1998
Kenya
land
research