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Displaying 221 - 225 of 447Structural changes in family farming in Poland since EU accession: lessons learned, challenges and opportunities
family farms, ownership and inheritance of farms, farm labour land market, farming population, Poland, Agricultural and Food Policy,
Brazil Land Governance Assessment
Public Sector Management and Reform Public Sector Development Rural Development - Common Property Resource Development Environment Public Sector Development Environment - Environmental Economics & Policies
Conflict and Land Tenure in Rwanda
The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the historical relation between conflict and land tenure in Rwanda, a country that experienced a harsh civil war and genocide in the mid-1990s. The victory of the Tutsi-led rebel, Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) at that time triggered a massive return of refugees and a drastic change in land tenure policy. These were refugees who had fled the country at around the time of independence, in 1962, due to the political turmoil and persecution (the “social revolution”) and who shared the background of the core RPF members.
Equitable and Sustainable Development of Foreign Land Acquisitions: Lessons, Policies and Implications
Large-scale agricultural land acquisitions have been covered substantially in recent literature. Despite the wealth of theoretical and empirical studies on this subject, there is no study that has reviewed existing literature in light of concerns over sustainable and equitable management. This chapter fills the gap by analyzing and synthesizing available literature to put some structure on existing knowledge. The paper has a threefold contribution to the literature. First, it takes stock of what we know so far about the determinants of land grab.
Land Distribution and Financial System Development
Research on credit markets from developing economies, as well as work on the origin of institutions in general, has suggested that land inequality may play a role in determining financial development. In this paper we establish empirically that initial land inequality is a significant predictor of financial depth across countries, even while controlling for other predictors such as legal origin, ethnic fractionalization, and income inequality.