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id21 Development Research Reporting Service

Acronym: 
ID21
Website: 
http://www.id21.org

Location

United Kingdom
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Working languages: 
English
Europe
development
poverty
research
urban areas

Aims to make policymakers and on-the-ground development managers aware of the latest and best in British development research findings. Offers policy-relevant findings on critical global development issues, drawn from over 40 major UK-based economics and social studies departments and think-tanks, together with a wide range of NGO research departments and consultants.

Service is divided into sectors:

  • Society and Economy
  • Health
  • Education
  • Urban Poverty

Provides email highlights service. Also hosts the online version of Insights periodical.

Funded by DFID, the UK national aid agency.

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id21 Development Research Reporting Service Resources

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Library Resource

Land reform in Zimbabwe – good for poor black farmers?

January, 2003
land
farmers
land tenure
land reform
agriculture

Zimbabwe’s fast-track land reform has had a bad press. Reports of violence and intimidation have obscured the reality that formal procedures used to settle black farmers in model villages bear a striking resemblance to earlier colonial procedures. Whilst colonial myths about African farmers as subsistence oriented and inefficient live on, evidence from south-eastern Zimbabwe suggests that the reforms have benefited some poor black farmers

Library Resource

Reducing conflict and improving resource management for Kenyan pastoralists

January, 2003
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
environment
natural resources management
pastoralists

Governments and scientists have long regarded the pastoralists’ way of life as a cause of environmental degradation. This belief is rooted in a misunderstanding of the pastoralist way of life and is reflected in national policies on land tenure and resource access in Kenya. The area of land controlled by pastoralists has been steadily reduced, and pastoralists have been encouraged to give up their nomadic way of life and settle, leading to conflict between pastoralist groups and other land users and damage to the environment.

Library Resource

Protecting forests for water management

January, 2003
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
water management

Forests play an important role in the water cycle, stimulating rainfall, protecting soils from erosion and regulating the flow of water. It is therefore important to preserve forests for water management. Previous efforts to protect forests in Ecuador have relied on controlling land use and excluding local people. These methods often have limited success, because of problems such as corruption and a lack of enforcement. A new approach is to pay people to protect the forests.

Library Resource

Managing common land: the Sahel experience

January, 2002
Burkina Faso, Senegal, Sudan, Niger, Ethiopia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land
land tenure

As decentralisation and tenure reform sweeps through the Sahel, doubts remain whether communities can look after commonly owned land. Is privatisation or state control the best means of preventing the degradation of resources? Can local communities forge institutional mechanisms to regulate competing claims on common resources?

Library Resource

This land is your land. Rights and rural livelihoods in Southern Africa

January, 2002
Eswatini, South Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Sub-Saharan Africa
land
land tenure
land rights
common property
land reform
agriculture

Tenure reform aims to secure people's land rights. In Southern Africa most so-called 'communal' land, reserved for Africans, is still held by the state. In these areas, land rights are increasingly insecure. Yet, the confirmation of the rights of those who have long occupied and used the land lags behind programmes that aim to transfer white-held land to Africans. Many colonial and apartheid land laws are still in force, particularly those relating to chiefs, who resist any reduction to their power.

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