This document is a collection of briefs that summarizes select papers presented at the 2005 workshop: “Land Rights for African Development: From Knowledge to Action” hosted by UNDPs Drylands Development Center and the International Land Coalition. The workshop addressed key land tenure issues in Africa that influence food security, environmental sustainability, agricultural intensification, conflict, peace building and broader rural development.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2005Afrique
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Library ResourceLégislation et politiquesjanvier, 2005Global
Territorial Development: an innovative approach
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesjanvier, 2005Asie
This paper examines agrarian policies and practices in terms of how land is linked to many complex social, economic, cultural and political relations. While drawing from upon experiences from Asian countries, the paper is much more than an analysis of Asia’s agrarian reform experience. The paper is a timely resource for policy makers and practitioners regardless of their countries of special concern or responsibility.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresjanvier, 2005Éthiopie
Changing conflict resolution institutions in the Ethiopian pastoral commons:
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresjanvier, 2005Mozambique
Unruh J (2005) Property restitution laws in a postwar context: the case of Mozambique. African Journal of Legal Studies 3:147-165
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresjanvier, 2005Mongolie
[Abstract] If development means the exapnsion of human capabilities, then freedom from domestic violence should be an integral part of any exercise for evaluating development progress. This paper focuses on a hitherto unexplored factor underlying women's risk of marital violence, namely women's property status. Many studies have examined the scale and corralates of marital violence, but neglected this dimension. Based on a household survey in Kerala (India), the authors assess the prevalence and correlates of both phisical and psychological violence - long term and current.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesjanvier, 2005Kenya
The right to own and inherit property is a crosscutting right that traverses the realm of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. This right is central to the true empowerment of everyone in society (men, women, boys and girls) and is a key developmental right. It is the common right to all societies and cultures. It is central to securing the dignity of all members of the society.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresjanvier, 2005Burkina Faso
Hunger and poverty are, in general, consequences of inadequate and restricted access to land and other resources, such as capital, inputs and technology; being women among those with less access to land, while accounting for a large share in small-scale food production.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresjanvier, 2005Zambie
The relationship between migration and deforestation in the developing world continues to receive significant attention. However beyond direct population increase, the precise mechanisms that operate within the intersection of migrant - host land rights remain largely unexamined. Where migrants are provided with land and rights by the state and/or local communities, how such rights are perceived by the migrants is of primary importance in their interaction with land resources, and in aggregate it impacts the development opportunities and environmental repercussions of migration.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesjanvier, 2005Asie central
Kyrgyzstan was one of the first countries from the former Soviet Union (FSU) to privatize agricultural land and remains the only country of the five Central Asian countries that has distributed land to the former collective and state farm members and dismantled the majority of these large farms.
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