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State Crime, 2018 Mexican human rights organizations accuse the Mexican military and federal police of having taken part in tens of thousands of forced disappearances in the last decade.
Alke Jenss
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological StudiesPro-poor land access for physical development is hindered by communal land conflicts in most developing countries like Nigeria, thereby inducing homelessness.
Christopher M. Anierobi +4 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross +2 more
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Communal Land and Agricultural Productivity [PDF]
, 2015 This paper quantifies how insecure farmland tenure, i.e. the presence of insecure individual communal land endowments, impacts agricultural and non-agriculturalproductivity.
Grobovsek, Jan, Gottlieb, Charles
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, 2018 Communal land is one of the land tenure systems in Namibia, the other being freehold land tenure system. At independence in 1990,Namibia resolved to retain communal land on the basis that majority of the population derived their livelihoods from communal
Nghitevelekwa, Romie
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou +3 more
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Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah +3 more
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Policy Gaps and Community Marginalization in Land and Mining Access in Post-Independence Namibia
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial SciencesContext and Background Namibia is widely recognized as a mineral-rich country with substantial deposits of diamonds, uranium, gold, lithium, and rare earth elements.
Aune Kamosho, Oluibukun Gbenga Ajayi
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Rural Demography, Public Services and Land Rights in Africa: A Village-Level Analysis in Burkina Faso [PDF]
This paper uses historical census data from Burkina Faso to characterize local demographic pressures associated with internal migration into river valleys after Onchocerciasis eradication, combined with a new survey of village elders to document change ...
William A. Masters +2 more
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