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

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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.
Bomuhangi, Allan   +2 more
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Housing Since 1945: The Impact of Policy Change and Ideology

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Housing policy in England has undergone significant reform on several occasions since 1945. Consensus approaches in the late 1940s and 50s to build large numbers of council houses and new private homes gave way to more ideologically driven policies in the 1970s and 80s.
Tony Travers
wiley   +1 more source

Labour's Planning Reform: A View from London

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the English planning reform agenda of the Labour government elected in 2024. It frames London's outer boroughs as a critical lens through which to assess it. Drawing on the findings of the cross‐party Suburban Taskforce (2020–2022), the article has particular regard to the proposed reconfiguration of planning committees ...
Dimitrios Panayotopoulos‐Tsiros   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of agricultural commercialization on land tenure, household resource allocation, and nutrition in the Philippines: [PDF]

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Agriculture Economic aspects Philippines., Produce trade Philippines., Land tenure Philippines., Households Philippines., Nutrition Philippines.,
Bouis, Howarth E.   +1 more
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

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