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Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
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Impact of land tenure and other socioeconomic factors on mountain terrace maintenance in Yemen: [PDF]

This paper describes the land property rights and tenure systems in the western escarpments of the Yemeni Highlands, and analyses the impact of land tenure arrangements and other socioeconomic factors on terrace maintenance.
Bamatraf, Abdul Rahman, Aw-Hassan, Aden, Alsanabani, Mohammed   +2 more
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Between Dispossession and Inclusion: Land Injustice and Project‐Based Citizenship in the Bagré Irrigation Scheme (Burkina Faso)

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large‐scale irrigation schemes are central to agrarian transformation in sub‐Saharan Africa, yet their political implications are often reduced to questions of land redistribution or agrarian differentiation. Although existing scholarship has documented how irrigation restructures agrarian relations and generates dispossession, less attention ...
William's Daré
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ALTA OR NLTA: WHAT'S IN THE NAME? LAND TENURE DILEMMA AND THE FIJI SUGAR INDUSTRY [PDF]

Since 1997, the agricultural leases on Native land, issued under the 1976 Agricultural and Landlord Tenants Act (ALTA), began to expire. The sugar industry is the main commodity export earner for Fiji, directly contributing about 22% of the national GDP ...
Lal, Padma, Reddy, Mahendra, Lim-Applegate, Hazel   +2 more
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From Social Justice to Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Continuities and (Re)framings in Ejido Property Claims in Yucatán, Mexico

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how long‐standing local conflicts concerning the nature of common property, the distribution of access and administrative rights associated with it, and more broadly the nature of the community and the forms of citizenship that organise its governance shape demands for justice regarding land transfers to outside investors
Eric Léonard, Kelly Redouté, María Gabriela Durán Valis   +2 more
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Fixing Rice Stubble Burning for Delhi's Air: Technological Solutionism and Agrarian Governance in Haryana

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Every winter, Delhi's polluted air draws national attention to the burning of rice stubble in neighbouring states. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Haryana in north India, this article shows how bureaucrats and scientists attempt to enact certainty around technological solutions to stubble burning even while privately acknowledging their ...
Nikhit Agrawal
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Customary land tenure dynamics and women's access to land in the Mambay community

, 2010
This paper presents and analyses data on women challenging customary land tenure arrangements, as they strive to gain access to much needed farmland. The research was conducted in the Mambay community: Bipare, Kaboung-ni and Kafinarou. It is clear that ‘customary' law is always in the process of adapting itself to what is actually going on in the ...
Koultchoumi, Babette, Djedo, Palwe.G.
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Citizenship, Dispossession and Demands for Justice in the Global South

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACTIn this introduction to the Special Issue we frame a “dispossession‐citizenship nexus” that generates fresh insights on citizenship dynamics in the Global South. We focus on rural and peri‐urban areas where all citizens are not granted the same bundle of rights and specific categories of citizens are particularly exposed to dispossession of ...
Tania Murray Li, Philippe Lavigne Delville, Eric Léonard, William's Daré, Stéphen Huard   +4 more
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Local Solutions to Structural Issues: The Fetishization of Custom in Rural Development Interventions in Côte d'Ivoire

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the paradox of seeking local solutions in rural development when conflicts result from structural transformations of the agrarian economy driven by national political choices. Since the 1990s, participatory approaches inspired by neo‐institutionalist theories of local governance have encouraged development actors to view ...
Toni‐Giovanni Pegurri
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From Lineage Property to Individual Property: Dynamics of Land Management in the Villages of Nasso and Dindéresso, Hauts-Bassins, Burkina Faso. [PDF]

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Sawadogo A.
europepmc   +1 more source