Land governance can be briefly described as how property rights to land, for groups or individuals, are defined, enforced, can be exchanged, and transformed. Land governance is argued to be a key to sustainable development and poverty reduction. In India, as well as in Bihar, land has enormous economic, social, and symbolic relevance. The present paper is an attempt to understand the issue of land governance from different perspective.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchAugust, 2015Norway
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2013Mozambique
Demand and Price Analysis, International Relations/Trade, Land Economics/Use,
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchAugust, 1999Honduras
This paper reviews hypotheses about the impacts of rural population growth on agriculture and natural resource management in developing countries and the implications for productivity, poverty, and natural resource conditions. Impacts on household and collective decisions are considered, and it is argued that population growth is more likely to have negative impacts when there is no collective responses than when population growth induces infrastructure development, collective action, institutional or organizational development.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchSeptember, 2013Norway, United States of America
This study aims to examine current land access and youth livelihood opportunities in Southern Ethiopia. Access to agricultural land is a constitutional right for rural residents of Ethiopia. We used survey data from the relatively land abundant districts of Oromia Region and from the land scarce districts of Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ (SNNP) Region. We found that youth in the rural south have limited potential to obtain agricultural land that can be a basis for viable livelihood. The law prohibits the purchase and sale of land in Ethiopia.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchOctober, 2015Brazil, United States of America
Public Sector Management and Reform Public Sector Development Rural Development - Common Property Resource Development Environment Public Sector Development Environment - Environmental Economics & Policies
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2015Ethiopia
Although there has been a considerable effort to reduce soil erosion and improve land productivity in Ethiopia, farmers’ investments in SWC remain limited. There is a long and rich tradition of empirical research that seeks to identify the determinants that affect farmers’ investments in SWC practices. Nevertheless, the results regarding these determinants have been inconsistent and scattered. Moreover, the impacts of different SWC practices have not been reviewed and synthesized.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchFebruary, 2015Global
Unequal and insecure access to land undermind women's farm productivity, limit employment options, depress their earnings, and degrade the environment. Factors limiting women's access to land include legal discrimination, land scarcity, inappropriate government policies, and lack of political power and social status. Policies to promote sustainalbe development rather than focusing on family planning, as is commonly done, should directly support women's economic activities.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016United States of America
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJune, 2016British Indian Ocean Territory
Public Sector Development - Public Sector Management and Reform Rural Development - Common Property Resource Development Urban Development - Municipal Housing and Land
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchNovember, 2008Benin
Collective actions groups have many advantages and are sometimes essential, yet they can reinforce or perpetuate inter-and intra-gender inequalities when their functioning is left entirely subject to internal community dynamics and they are not well managed. This is well illustrated by the case of Koussin-Lélé rice scheme in the central Benin.
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