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Who owns the land?: Perspectives from rural Ugandans and implications for land acquisitions

Bomuhangi, Allan; Doss, Cheryl; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

Rapid growth of demand for agricultural land is putting pressure on property rights systems, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where customary tenure systems have provided secure land access. Patterns of gradual, endogenous change toward formalization are being challenged by rapid and...

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Land and schooling: Transferring wealth across generations

Quisumbing, Agnes R. (contributor); … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

The authors of this book identify the factors affecting land inheritance and schooling across generations in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Ghana-countries with very different social and cultural traditions. Based on household surveys at each site, the authors examine how these factors affect...

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Tenure (in)security and agricultural investment of smallholder farmers in Mozambique:

Hagos, Hosaena Ghebru - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

Using the case of past and ongoing land tenure reforms in Mozambique, this paper aims at assessing the determinants of tenure security for households and the implications of such tenure security on their observed behavior in undertaking long-term land-related investments. An attempt is made to...

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Subdividing the commons: the politics of property rights transformation in Kenya's Maasailand

Mwangi, Esther - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"This paper discusses the internal processes and decisions that characterized the transition from collectively held group ranches to individualized property systems among the Maasai pastoralists of Kajiado district in Kenya. It addresses the question of why group ranch members would demand...

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Biting the bullet: how to secure access to drylands resources for multiple users

Mwangi, Esther; Dohrn, Stephan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"Close to one billion people worldwide depend directly upon the drylands for their livelihoods. Because of their climatic conditions and political and economic marginalization drylands also have some of the highest incidents of poverty. Pastoral and sedentary production systems coexist in these...

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The transformation of property rights in Kenya's Maasiland: triggers and motivations

Mwangi, Esther - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

"This paper explores the puzzle of why the pastoral Maasai of Kajiado, Kenya, supported the individualization of their collectively held group ranches, an outcome that is inconsistent with theoretical expectation. Findings suggest that individuals and groups will seek to alter property rights in...

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Land institutions, investments, and income diversification : Pathways to economic development for Brazilâ€™s quilombo communities

Bowser, William; Nelson, Carl H. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

Efforts to distribute land titles to low-income rural Afro-Brazilian communities, known as quilombos, have been disappointing despite the provision of ample government resources. Until now, research on the implications of Brazil s land reform policies has not considered quilombo communities in...

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2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); …

This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global,...

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Does internal migration improve overall well-being in Ethiopia?:

de Brauw, Alan; Mueller, Valerie; Woldehanna, Tassew - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

Ethiopia to examine the welfare impacts of internal migration. Using a number of techniques and various objective and … subjective measures, we measure the impacts of migration on the welfare of migrants versus non-migrants. We find large gains to … migration suggest that barriers exist, even within countries such as Ethiopia, against the free movement of people to places …

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Migration, poverty, and inequality: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Wouterse, F. S. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

migration and internal migration within the African continent and inequality, poverty, and social welfare in rural households … negative correlation between internal migration and inequality and a positive correlation between international migration and … inequality. International migration, which involves high costs and risks, appears to be mainly accessible to already wealthy …

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