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Based on a study of Ghana, Malawi, Sumatra, and Uganda.
Author : Keijiro Otsuka
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN :
Based on a study of Ghana, Malawi, Sumatra, and Uganda.
Author : Keijiro Otsuka
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 24,57 MB
Release : 2001-08-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0801867479
The devastating environmental effects of deforestation and the exploitation of other natural resources in the developing world have been well documented, yet their impact on local communities has received far less attention. This volume fills this gap by looking at how land degradation and deforestation are being addressed at the local level, where households have experienced the reduction of farm size and the decline of natural resources. Through a comparison of Asia and Africa, Land Tenure and Natural Resource Management examines the evolution of land tenure institutions within diverse cultural, natural, and policy environments. Specific topics include the evolution of customary land tenure, the impacts of land tenure policies, and common property management. The editors conclude that the best strategy for managing land and forest resources lies in promoting the establishment of property rights and investment in the improvement of the natural resource base. Topics Include: Issues and Theoretical Framework; Quantitative Methodology; Agroforestry Management in Ghana; Agroforestry Management in Sumatra; Tree and Cropland Management in Malawi; Customary and Private Land Management in Uganda; Management of State Land and Privatization in Vietnam; Common Property Forest Management in the Hill Region of Nepal; Timber Forest Management in Nepal and Japan Toward New Paradigms of Land and Tree Resource Management.
Author : Meinzen-Dick, Ruth
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0801871433
International agricultural research is expanding beyond the development of annual crop technologies for individual farms to the development of longer-tern natural resource management techniques for entire landscapes. But technologies of practices with a long lag time between investment and returns are unlikely to be adopted by farmers unless they have secure rights to the underlying resources (property rights). Similarly, technologies that span multiple farms are unlikely to be adopted unless neighbors and groups work together (collective action). But little is know about the way property rights and collective action in developing countries mediate the adoption of technologies by farmers and groups. To address this information gap, this volume brings together international experts in economics, sociology, and natural resource management to examine the links among property rights, collective action, and technological change for a variety of technologies across a rage of community contexts in the developing world.
Author :
Publisher : IIED
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : 1899825312
Author : Jean-Pierre Chauveau
Publisher : IIED
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Customary law
ISBN : 1843696576
Author : Julie Elizabeth Fischer
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Land tenure
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Author : J. Pender
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0896297578
Deforestation, overgrazing, and unsustainable methods of cultivation are threatening agriculture and food security in the highlands of East Africa. In response, economists and other development professionals have turned their attention to combating the pr
Author : Daniel C. Clay
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Land degradation
ISBN :
Author : Caroline S. Archambault
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317658604
This book explores the gendered dimensions of recent land governance transformations across the globe in the wake of unprecedented pressures on land and natural resources. These complex contemporary forces are reconfiguring livelihoods and impacting women’s positions, their tenure security and well-being, and that of their families. Bringing together fourteen empirical community case studies from around the world, the book examines governance transformations of land and land-based resources resulting from four major processes of tenure change: commercial land based investments, the formalization of customary tenure, the privatization of communal lands, and post-conflict resettlement and redistribution reforms. Each contribution carefully analyses the gendered dimensions of these transformations, exploring both the gender impact of the land tenure reforms and the social and political economy within which these reforms materialize. The cases provide important insights for decision makers to better promote and design an effective gender lens into land tenure reforms and natural resource management policies. This book will be of great interest to researchers engaging with land and natural resource management issues from a wide variety of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, development studies, and political science, as well as policy makers, practitioners, and activists concerned with environment, development, and social equity.
Author : S. Holden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137343818
Rural poverty remains widespread and persistent in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. A group of leading experts critically examines the impact of land tenure reforms on poverty reduction and natural resource management in countries in Africa and Asia with highly diverse historical contexts.