A Background Briefing covering the issue, the UK’s help for resettlement, Zimbabwe Government policies, UK land resettlement policy from 1997, DFID support for land resettlement – the way forward, other DFID support for poor people in rural areas. Says the UK believes that Zimbabwe needs land reform to reduce poverty, that the principles agreed at the 1998 Land Conference should be observed, and that the UK is willing to fund schemes which are focused on helping the poor and are transparent.

This collection of policy briefs cover research results from a multicountry research program on rural finance policies for food security of the poor, 1994-2000. It offers lessons learned from IFPRI´s program on rural finance and household food security with regard to the poors’ demand for financial services. The lessons are derived from detailed household surveys conducted in nine countries of Asia and Africa: Bangladesh, Cameroon, China, Egypt, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Nepal, and Pakistan. The 14 briefs cover the results of research undertaken between 1994—2000.

Annual Report

Een verkennend onderzoek naar de waardering van de kwaliteit van de leefomgeving door ondernemers in de groene ruimte van de West-Betuwe. Naast een literatuurstudie zijn sleutelfiguren geraadpleegd en interviews gehouden onder ondernemers. Het doel van de interviews was om helder te krijgen waarom ondernemers zich in de groene ruimte van de West-Betuwe hebben gevestigd en welke opvattingen ondernemers hebben over de kwaliteit van hun woon- en werkomgeving. Slechts een deel van ondernemers heeft de huidige locatie gekozen op basis van factoren relevant voor het bedrijf.

Many local tenure arrangements in Niger were largely implicit, not recorded in any codified form. In the process of codification now underway, chiefs are regarded as the key interpreters of tradition, mutating the implicit into the explicit. Land tenure reform is not without contradictions. How are chiefs to maintain a level of flexibility and dynamism within the codified, rigidified form that the local tenure arrangements will have once they are made explicit?