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Showing items 18226 through 18234 of 73594.We use nationally representative survey data from two neighboring countries in Southern Africa – Zambia and Malawi – to characterize the current status of rural land rental market participation by smallholder farmers.
O tema em estudo mostra-se relevante na actual conjuntura nacional, na qual se assiste ao despoletar de novos conflitos e agravamento dos já existentes envolvendo famílias, comunidades, Estado e/ou investidores privados pelo acesso à terra.
Over the past decade issues pertaining to land sharing/land sparing have gained some space in the debate on the study of land-use strategies and their associated impacts at landscape level.
The past decade has ushered in an era of increasingly contentious land politics in Zambia, with investors, the government, and chiefs simultaneously blamed for injustices in land allocation.
The paper shows that most women in Zambia and especially in the study area suffer from insecurity in land since they do not have secure title to land under customary tenure.
The purpose of the guide is to provide practical information to rural communities that they can use in framing and devising collective action and engagement strategies to strengthen their tenure of land, fisheries and forest and bring about bottom-up accountability.
The paper shows that pre-colonial ecologies of agricultural systems in some parts of rural Zambia were sustainable and resilient to prevailing environmental conditions, and were therefore able to ensure relative food security, under communal land tenure.
In the name of development, governments in southern Africa are reformulating land policies to facilitate privatisation of customary land rights.
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