Land tenure institutions in customary land areas of Sub-Saharan Africa have been evolving towards individualized ownership. Communal land tenure institutions aim to achieve and preserve the equitable distribution of land (and hence, income) among community members. Uncultivated forestland is owned by the community or village, and as long as forest land is available, forest clearance of forest is easily approved by the village chief.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 1998Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, Ghana
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 1998Indonésie
This study attempts to identify the impacts of land tenure institutions on the efficiency of farm management based on a case study of smallholder rubber production in customary lands of Sumatra
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 1999Asie, Inde
This research report on India addresses an important policy issue faced by policy-makers in many developing countries: how to allocate public funds more efficiently in order to achieve both growth and poverty-reduction goals in rural areas. This research is particularly important at a time when many developing countries are undergoing substantial budget cuts as part of macroeconomic reforms and adjustment. The econometric model employed in this research includes a broad range of government expenditure items.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 1998Ghana
Customary land areas in Western Ghana have been evolving towards individualized ownership. Inherited and temporarily allocated family lands are being transferred to wives and children as inter-vivos gifts, to be planted with cocoa. Giving gifts is a way to circumvent the traditional Akan matrilineal land inheritance system in which land is transferred from a deceased man to his matrilineal relatives but not to his wife and children.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 1998Afrique septentrionale, Asie occidentale, Afrique, Asie
An international conference was held in Amman, Jordan in September 1997 to examine mounting problems of poverty and environmental degradation in the low rainfall areas (LRAs) of the eight Mashreq and Maghreb countries of West Asia and North Africa (Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria from the Mashreq region, and Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia from the Maghreb), and to seek solutions which reconcile economic growth with equity and environmental conservation -- the 3 E's of sustainable development.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 1998Amérique latine et Caraïbes
The population of Latin America is now largely urban. By 1990, 72 percent of the people of the region were living in cities. By 2020, the urban population could reach 83 percent. With increasing urbanization, the region faces problems of poverty, nutrition, and health that are somewhat different from those when the population was more rural.
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implications for tree resource management in Western Ghana
Documents de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 1998Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, GhanaBased on a survey of 60 villages in Western Ghana, where cocoa is the dominant crop, this study explores evolutionary changes in land tenure institutions on women's land rights and the efficiency of tree resource management....With increasing population pressure, customary land tenure institutions in Western Ghana have evolved toward individualized systems in order to provide appropriate incentives to invest in tree planting and management. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, individualization of land rights has strengthened women’s rights to land.
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efficiency and equity implications
Documents de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 1998Asia du sud-est, Asie, IndonésieThis paper examines the equity implications of the evolution of land rights from communal land tenure to individualization in customary land areas in Western Sumatra. This brief sets forth policy implications: Preference for sons in the inheritance of agroforestry area in the Low Region may be explained by the intensive use of male labor in rubber production; in contrast, both paddy cultivation and cinnamon cultivation in the Middle Region use both male and female family labor relatively equally.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 1998
Alars que Ie monde se prepare au nouveau millenaire, tous les pays s'efforcent de s'adapter a la mouvance des besoins d'un marche mondial dont la mobilite s'accrolt. A la suite d'annees de distorsions structurales et d'un desinteret generalise quant au secteur agricole du monde en developpement, les echanges commerciaux mondiaux obligent aujourd'hui les economies agraires, plus pauvres, a jauger leurs avantages naturels compares et a s'adapter rapidement.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 1998
In this policy brief we argue that the agroecological approach to food production offers more hope of combating hunger in a sustainable fashion than does the more conventional "green revolution" strategy. While agroecological technology is suitable for small farmers, has positive impacts on equity and is environmentally friendly, the green revolution and similar approaches have caused serious land degradation and have accentuated rural inequity--the root cause of hunger.
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