In a nation of 50 million people there are estimates that up to 1 million are Internally Displaced Persons (IDP). Despite the relatively recent use of the phrase internally displaced people in the context of Burma, there is evidence that the practices that lead to this displacement have been in place for a long period of time.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchOctober, 2003Myanmar
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2004Africa, Kenya, Mali
Agricultural growth will prove essential for improving the welfare of the vast majority of Africa’s poor. Roughly 80 percent of the continent’s poor live in rural areas, and even those who do not will depend heavily on increasing agricultural productivity to lift them out of poverty. Seventy percent of all Africans— and nearly 90 percent of the poor—work primarily in agriculture. As consumers, all of Africa’s poor—both urban and rural—count heavily on the efficiency of the continent’s farmers.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2003Kenya
As the Government of Kenya treads the path to economic recovery, every Kenyan should be at home with the fact that many forms of economic development activities damage the natural resources upon which the economies are based. Nationally and internationally, a major environmental and development challenge is how to maintain the equilibrium between population, ecosystems and development.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2004Sub-Saharan Africa
In this note of food security and land tenure security in Lesotho, the authors present arguments in favour of the enactment and implementation of a legislation in Lesotho that will enhance land tenure security in the country.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2003Africa
Argues that the price of commercial farmland in Namibia is high in relation to the profits that can be made from commercial livestock farming. As a result, farming is rapidly becoming the preserve of the urban rich who farm as a lifestyle choice and are prepared to subsidise their farms from their principal sources of income. Government policy is trying to encourage black Namibians into commercial farming through the Affirmative Action Loans scheme. However, given the price of land, many of these farmers will struggle to create commercially viable farms.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2003Bolivia
Library has Spanish version: Bolivia : la reforma agraria abandonada; valles y altiplano
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003Mexico
Este trabajo analiza la forma en que se han transmitido los derechos agrarios en tres ejidos del centro de Veracruz desde una perspectiva de género. Se examina la manera en que se articulan factores como los patrones de herencia, el trabajo femenino remunerado, los papeles de género y los tipos de cultivo para permitir o restringir el acceso femenino a la tierra y a la titularidad de los certificados ejidales.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2004Sub-Saharan Africa
After four decades of agricultural-led development strategies in the postindependent Malawi, economic growth has been erratic and a large proportion of the population live below the poverty line and studies suggests that the poverty situation has worsened. Agricultural policies favoured large-scale (estate) production at the expense of smallholder farmers who account for more than 80 percent of households.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2004Malawi
Malawi has pursued an agricultural-led development strategy since its independence in 1964. This agricultural-led development strategy was based on the promotion of a dual agricultural system comprising estate (large-scale) production mainly for cash (export) crops and smallholder agricultural production mainly to support the food security needs of the population. In the post-independence era, the objectives of an agricultural strategy were four fold: To raise agricultural productivity and accelerate growth and export performance.
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