When a national park is created, the people who are forced to leave the area can increase the pressure on the surrounding communities. How can governments balance both the need for foreign exchange and environmental conservation, with the livelihood needs of the local people?
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001Malawi, Southern Africa, Africa
Dan Chirwa explaining to Patrick Mphaka how the water of Lake Malawi is a natural birthright for all Malawians.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001
Apart from the issue of fairness, there is also considerable evidence that giving people secure rights to their land and natural resources, helps to ensure that land is properly maintained and resources are responsibly exploited. Ruth Meinzen-Dick, a researcher on land and water rights, explains the link.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001Kenya, Eastern Africa, Africa
Catherine Gatundu describing how the Forest Action Network is helping communities in Kenya to stand up for their rights to clean, safe water.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001Cameroon, Middle Africa, Africa
Femba John of Babungo village in Cameroon explaining to Martha Chindong how a dispute over access has left the villagers with no clean water source.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
Charles Batchelor explaining how the traditional Indian concept of water as a community resource has been replaced by a system of private wells, so restricting the access of poorer people to water.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001
If a woman loses her husband, she is also at risk, in many countries, of losing the land and property on which her survival depends. Prisca Ngum, a widow in Cameroon, describes her experience, and questions the tradition that widows should have no rights to their late husband?s property.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001Cameroon, Middle Africa, Africa
Building roads can bring new opportunities to remote and poorly developed areas, but for people whose land they cross, they can be very costly. This report covers a road building project in Cameroon, where farmers reacted angrily to a new road, especially as they were not properly compensated for their losses.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa
For much of the last century the Fengu people living near Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, have held title deeds to their land. In this report the chief of the Fengu explains how the title deeds have helped them, and how his people are responding to the current land redistribution programme in Zimbabwe.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001Cameroon, Middle Africa, Africa
Jin Jokwi Simon, the provincial chief for water and sanitation in North West Cameroon, explaining that irrigated agriculture may soon raise the issue of water rights in the province.
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