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From the Editor's Desk (December 2011)
Tony Addison With the end of the year fast approaching, we bring you the last Angle of 2011. Here in Helsinki, the shortest day of the year is nearly...
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Weather Shocks and Cropland Decisions in Rural MozambiqueEconomic development in low income settings is often associated with an expansion of higher-value agricultural activities. Since these activities often bring new risks, an understanding of cropland decisions and how these interact with shocks is...
Policy Brief
Access to Land and Land Policy ReformsThe objective of this research and policy brief is to analyse different mechanisms of access to land for the rural poor in an era when redistribution through expropriative land reform is largely inconsistent with the forces of the political economy...
Book Chapter
Access to LandBy applying a unified framework, this book 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. These land tenure reforms include Land...
Working Paper
The Dynamics of Land Titling Regularization and Market DevelopmentWe study the effects of titles on parcel valuation and urban land market development (real estate transfers, rentals, and mortgages), and the dynamics of deregularization by exploiting a natural experiment in the allocation of land titles to very...
Book Chapter
Vulnerability, Poverty and Coping in ZimbabwePart of Book Vulnerability in Developing Countries
Working Paper
Local Transformation in Rural VietnamThis study documents the local transformation of rural Vietnamese communes in 12 different provinces from 2006 to 2014. Three key areas are considered, namely occupational and agricultural choice; provision of public goods and infrastructure as well...
Book Chapter
The Gradual Erosion of the Social Security Function of Customary Land Tenure Arrangements in Lineage-Based SocietiesPart of Book Insurance Against Poverty
Working Paper
PROCEDE: a failed programme to reduce poverty and inequalities in MexicoThis paper analyses the land tenure reform that took place in Mexico in 1992 and its PROCEDE programme (Ejido Rights Certification Programme). It considers the counter-agrarian reform’s objectives, the context in which it was proposed, and the...
Working Paper
The Gradual Erosion of the Social Security Function of Customary Land Tenure Arrangements in Lineage-Based SocietiesCustomary rules governing access to land and other natural resources in village societies have characteristics that allow them to fulfill social security functions and achieve equity objectives. This is true of both common-property resources and land...
Working Paper
Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967-2004This paper uses data from a household survey to estimate changes in land distribution in rural West Bengal between 1967-2004 and decompose these into contributions of different factors. There was a substantial drop in land per household and land per...
Working Paper
Transformation of the Family under Rising Land PressureIf we understand well the individualization of land tenure rules under conditions of growing land scarcity and increased market integration, much less is known about the mode of evolution of the farm-cum-family units possessing the land. Inspired by...
Working Paper
Trees, Tenure and ConflictTree crops have changed land tenure in Africa. Farmers have acquired more permanent, alienable rights, but have also faced disputes with competing claimants and the state. I show that the introduction of Para rubber had similar effects in the Benin...
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