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Kilimo Kwanza and Small-Scale Producers: An Opportunity or a Curse?

Reports & Research
Noviembre, 2011
Tanzania

This study sought to follow up the implementation of the Kilimo Kwanza initiative with the view to establish reliable facts on its significance to small-scale producers, mainly peasants and pastoralists. To achieve this, the study began by examining the perception of small-scale producers about Kilimo Kwanza and it assessed their participation in the implementation process. Moreover, the study scrutinized the proposed amendment of the Village Land Act and its implication to small-scale produces if carried out.

Investigative Report on Biofuel Investments

Reports & Research
Noviembre, 2011
Tanzania

Increasing investments in biofuel production follow a shift of energy demand,in developed nations from fossil fuel to bio energyto run machines. Consequently, there has is an accelerated influx of investors from the Europe, Asia and Americain quest for productive and fertile lands.


Proponents of the biofuel investments say the investment will improve among other things, agricultural production, add value to local products and markets and improve social services such as roads infrastructure, health facilities, clean water supply and education.


Public Interventions in Agriculture: with What Gender Implications

Reports & Research
Noviembre, 2011
Tanzania

The Study on Public Interventions in Agriculture: With What Gender Implications was conducted by ANSAF with the purpose to generate relevant data that shall facilitate better understanding on to what extent interventions in Agriculture considered the gender aspect to ensure equal participation of women, men, youth and other marginalized groups in the process.

Atlas de la tenencia de la tierra en el Ecuador

Manuals & Guidelines
Agosto, 2011
Ecuador

El "Atlas sobre la tenencia de la tierra en el Ecuador" constituye una colección de mapas que dan cuenta de la tenencia de la tierra en Ecuador: quiénes tienen acceso a la tierra, en qué magnitud, cuáles son los tipos de cultivo y en qué cantones y provincias se encuentran.
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Budget Analysis for ASDP and DADP Funds in Tanzania

Reports & Research
Julio, 2011
Tanzania

The Agriculture Sector Development Programme (ASDP) is a Sector Programme largely implemented at the district level through the District Agricultural Development Plans (DADPs) as an integral part of the District Development Plan (DDP). The government also works at the national level through the Agriculture Sector Lead Ministries (ASLMs) to deal with issues such as fertiliser subsidies, large irrigation schemes, research and development, regulation and coordination as well as quality assurance.

Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe

Julio, 2011
Zimbabwe

This article examines the empirical facts about the actual outcome of Zimbabwe's land reform, based on years of field research. It shows that the popular assumption about failed land reform in Zimbabwe is wrong on several counts: the character of Zimbabwe's land reform has been redistributive, and the extent of this has been wide enough to trigger significant progressive changes in the agrarian structure. This is despite some elites having benefited from the process and foreign-owned agro-industrial estates and conservancies being retained.

Plano Estratégico para o Desenvolvimento do Sector Agrário (PEDSA 2011-2020)

Reports & Research
Abril, 2011
Mozambique

O Desenvolvimento Agrário tem sido desde sempre uma prioridade para Moçambique. Em 1998, o Governo em colaboração com os principais parceiros desenhou o Programa de Desenvolvimento da Agricultura (PROAGRI I) com o objectivo de melhorar a coordenação das intervenções públicas na agricultura e orientar os investimentos..

The Brazilian agrarian issue requires solution in the XXI century

Journal Articles & Books
Abril, 2011
América do Sul
Brasil
In this beginning of century, Brazil has, on one hand, a high economic growth, strong institutions in various areas and improvement of social situation, but, on the other hand, the rural and urban land situation is still very precarious, with elementary issues that are not resolved and that most developed countries solved them still in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.