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Communal land and agricultural productivity [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Development Economics, 2019
This paper quantifies the aggregate impact of communal land tenure ar- rangements that prevail in Sub-Saharan Africa. Such tenure regimes limit land transfer- ability by prohibiting sales, subjecting rented-out land to the risk of expropriation, and redistributing it to existing farmers in a progressive fashion.
Charles Gottlieb, Jan Grobovšek
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The Production of Community in Community Land Trusts

City & Community, 2020
This paper explores the ways notions of community are produced and understood by homeowners/ members, staff, and board members of eight Community Land Trusts (CLTs) in the state of Minnesota. The CLT model utilizes a mixed property regime that ensures the permanent affordability of land to make it accessible to low–income people.
Richard Kruger   +5 more
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Reshaping women's land rights on communal rangeland

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Range and Forage Science, 2013
This paper aims to contribute to the debates on communal rangelands and analyses the gendered dimension of land rights and land access in the rural areas of Namaqualand. The actual gender relations within rural communities and the emergence of strategies
Kleinbooi, Karin
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Vectorizing the Community Land Model

The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 2005
In this paper we describe our extensive efforts to rewrite the Community Land Model (CLM) so that it provides good vector performance on the Earth Simulator in Japan and the Cray X1 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. We present the technical details of the old and new internal data structures, the required code reorganization, and the resulting ...
Forrest M. Hoffman   +3 more
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Keeping "Community" in a Community Land Trust

Social Work Research, 2011
This instrumental case study examined the role of grassroots community organizing in a community land trust (CLT) in a southern U.S. city. Twenty-nine homeowners, renters, board members, community members, and current and former CLT employees were interviewed.
K. A. Gray, M. Galande
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Restoring Communal Lands

2021
Sustainable pine resin producer Ejido Verde uses an adaptive reforestation model to replenish supply and meet demand.
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Community Land Trusts

2021
This study examines the relationship between political environments and the spatial distribution of Community Land Trusts (CLTs). CLTs are locally based nonprofit organizations established to provide access to land for housing, farming, small businesses and civic projects. Central to the CLT model is the split between land and property.
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Assessing and Communicating Risk with Communities Living on Contaminated Land

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2006
The U.K. government has emphasized redeveloping derelict land for housing. As a result, tools for assessing brownfield sites are well developed. However, there are many potentially contaminated sites on which people live, often not to the people's knowledge.
Rupert L, Hough   +4 more
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Communal Land Struggles in the Wake of the Land Reform

2021
This chapter investigates the struggles for communal land recognition and examines the detrimental effects of the land titling reform on collective mobilization. It confirms how both private and communal land titles as tools for land rights advocacy in Cambodia are limited and illustrates the power to define interventions that are in the hands of state
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