Land alientation in Borana: Some land tenure issues in a pastoral context in Ethiopia Johan Helland

Land alienation in Borana: Some land tenure issues in a pastoral context in Ethiopia Johan Helland

 It has been argued that the ambiguities in Malawian customary tenure may aggravate processes of social differentiation and class formation. The ...

Tenure and human rights Siegfried Pausewang Tenure and sustainable use James Oglethorpe (ed.) sieg

It has been argued that the ambiguities in Malawian customary tenure may aggravate processes of social differentiation and class formation. The article ...

The Karrayu in the Upper Awash Valley are nomadic pastoralists with a traditional migratory pastoral mode of existence. Expanding and 'disempowering' development interventions in the form of large-scale agricultural enterprises and conservation schemes, threaten the Karrayu's traditional way of living.

Different systems of land tenure in Ethiopia under Haile Selassie and their history are explained and their economic and social consequences analysed. ...

Tanzania is a relatively new mining country, and mining has become a hotly debated issue in the country. There is a feeling among both local people and ...

What is the relationship between the change in the structure of land ownership and the dynamics of armed conflict in the Columbian Pacific, and how is it related to the planting and exploitation of palm oil?

Assigning forest carbon rights is crucial for any effective REDD+ system. Often linked to debates about forest tenure, carbon rights determine who can ...

Corruption is a continuing feature of the Philippines’ natural resource sectors. Given keen interest in the country’s REDD+ potential, it ...

Corruption and other factors can influence deforestation in contradictory ways. For the purpose of country-level implementation of REDD+, donors should ...

Ethiopia has implemented one of the largest, fastest and least expensive land registration and certification reforms in Africa. While there is evidence ...

This project is designed to support the development of an active research practice in sociology and social anthropology at Addis Ababa University, by ...

This study is commissioned by the World Bank as part of the bank's initiative to build capacity in governance and benefit streams management in selected ...

This project investigates the relationship between research and policy-making in selected policy areas in four African countries - Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania ...

The starting point of this paper is a universally observed tendency of common property to be replaced by private property in traditional agriculture. ...

This paper discusses the current food security crisis in the pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa. It tries to explain the recurrent famines with reference ...

We have used gender-disaggregated household panel data from 2007 and 2012 in combination with dictator games and hawk-dove games to assess the effects ...

A new Land Act introduced in Angola in 2004 demonstrates a genuine interest in the protection of the customary land rights of rural communities and underlines ...