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    A long way home

    Following 26 years of core housing consolidation and the struggle to achieve a sense of dignity

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2013
    South Africa
    Urban Tenure
    land
    housing rights
    informal settlements
    urbanization
    land-use planning
    urban population
    urban areas

    This working paper by Tikvah Breimer previously of the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) and Mark Napier previously of Urban LandMark, analyses the provision of core housing in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, specifically taking into account the residents' response to the state's delivery of core housing. It aims to explore to what extent the South African government's approach to providing large-scale housing addresses the relevant demands in the context of rapid urbanisation.

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    A plan for the development and supply of agricultural water

    January, 2013
    Republic of Korea
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    environment
    development

    The agricultural policies after Independence in South Korea can be roughly classified into three policies: policies for food increase till the 1970s, policies for structural improvement in the 1980s and 1990s, and policies for rice production adjustment in the 2000s. In the process, a policy for price support to encourage food production and increase farmer income, the policies for modernization of production processes, and the policies for expanding the scale of management were made and implemented.

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    A scan of rural civil society in South Africa

    Reports & Research
    January, 2013
    South Africa
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    advocacy
    agrarian reform
    grassroots organizations
    land rights activists

    This research report examines the changing role and function of civil society in South Africa pre and post-1994, and its changing relations with the state through successive presidencies. It presents a four quadrant typology of civil society organisations

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    Accounting for the Ecological Footprint of Materials in Consumer Goods at the Urban Scale

    Sustainability

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2013
    Global
    Urban Tenure
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Land & Food Security
    forest land

    Ecological footprint analysis (EFA) can be used by cities to account for their on-going demands on global renewable resources. To date, EFA has not been fully implemented as an urban policy and planning tool in part due to limitations of local data availability.

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