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Fuelwood Consumption and Forest Degradation: A Household Model for Domestic Energy Substitution in Rural India [Rajasthan]

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декабря, 1997

Paper examines domestic energy supply and demand in Northwest India. A household model is set up to analyse the links between forest scarcity and household energy consumption, focusing on the substitution of fuels from the forests and commons and the private domain. The model is estimated using recently collected data from villages bordering Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan, India.

Country Profiles of Land Tenure: Africa, 1996

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декабря, 1997
Sub-Saharan Africa

These Country Profiles represent a new edition of a continent-wide set of profiles prepared and published by the Land Tenure Center in 1986. This new volume reflects a decade of intensive work on the continent by LTC and a very considerable deepening of knowledge and understanding of land tenure issues in Africa.

Land, Forests and People in Finnish Aid in Zanzibar: Some Preliminary Observations

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декабря, 1997
Tanzania
Finland
Europe
Sub-Saharan Africa

Sets out to examine the question of aid provision. As part of a general study on Finnish aid, the main focus is on two projects in Zanzibar: Zanzibar Forestry Project (ZFP) and Zanzibar Integrated Lands and Environment Management (ZILEM) project. This study centres on initial research carried out in Dar es Salaam (documentary) and Unguja (documentary, observational and in-depth interviews).

Struggles of Access to land. The 'Squatter Question' in Coastal Kenya

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декабря, 1997
Kenya
Sub-Saharan Africa

In Kenya and the sub-Saharan Africa generally, there have been little systematic discussions on the post-colonial struggles over control and ownership of land. Studies ignore that the "land question" is not about production alone and consequently have failed to assess its wider consequences on the society.

The Implications of HIV/AIDS for Rural Development Policy and Programming: Focus on sub-Saharan Africa

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декабря, 1997
Sub-Saharan Africa

Examines the implications of the HIV epidemic for rural development policies and programmes in sub-Saharan Africa and, in particular: the inter-relationships between rural development and HIV/AIDS; and the broad policy and programming challenges that the epidemic poses for rural institutions.

Liberal Contracts, Relational Contracts and Common Property: Africa and the United States

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Reports & Research
декабря, 1997
Sub-Saharan Africa
Guinea
Northern America
United States of America

The core thesis is that Western neoclassical economics and law (particularly Anglo-American) have a peculiar cultural history that biases Western-trained economists and lawyers against common property systems like those found among Africans and American Indians.