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Systems of Land and Security of Tenure
2014In recent decades, the rate of urbanization has increased rapidly in all regions of the world, especially in the developing countries. Despite the rise, a series of problems have arisen as a result of the fast urbanization process, in which the most serious are the urban slums and shantytowns.
Peng Fei Ni +2 more
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Status of Land Tenure Security in Nepal
Journal on Geoinformatics, Nepal, 2018Land is a fundamental natural resource for living, an economic asset for production, legal entity with multiple rights over it and above all, a societal factor for self-actualization. So, ownership of land has multi-faceted understanding around the world.
Harisharan Nepal, Anil Marasini
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Land tenure security and land investments in Northwest China
China Agricultural Economic Review, 2013PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of perceived land tenure security in China on farmers' decisions to invest in relatively long‐term land quality improvement measures, taking into account the potential endogeneity of tenure security.Design/methodology/approachData from a survey held in 2008 and 2010 among 259 households in Minle
Ma Xian lei, Xianlei +4 more
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Land Tenure and Food Security: Exploring Dynamic Linkages
Development and Change, 1999Land tenure and food security have each been the subject of extensive—but generally separate—research in the past. Links between the two issues are now receiving increased attention, yet critical links between them remain unexplored. After a brief review of the two concepts, this article combines both issues within a dynamic framework that recognizes ...
Maxwell, D., Wiebe, K.
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Livelihood Security and Land Tenure Systems in Ethiopia
2020يبحث المقال في العوامل الكامنة وراء تضاؤل حالة الأراضي المجتمعية ووضعها القانوني في إثيوبيا في ضوء التزامات البلاد الدولية والإقليمية. نظرًا لأن الأمة تتكون من نسبة ساحقة من المجتمع الزراعي، الذين يعتمدون اعتمادًا كبيرًا على الأراضي والموارد المجتمعية مثل الأخشاب والحطب والطب التقليدي والأعلاف وعشب القش وأماكن الاحتفالات الطقسية بالإضافة إلى أراضيهم ...
Nigatu Mengesha, Muradu Abdo
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Land tenure security and investment incentives: puzzling evidence from Burkina Faso
Journal of Development Economics, 2002On the basis of original data collected in Burkina Faso, the paper seeks to determine whether increased land tenure security has a positive effect on agricultural investments, and land improvements in particular. The test is conducted by carefully controlling for possible endogeneity of tenure security.
Platteau, Jean-Philippe +2 more
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Borrowing of Land, Security of Tenure and Sustainable Land Use in Burkina Faso
Development and Change, 1997Lack of formal security of land tenure is often cited as a constraint for participatory land management programmes which try to motivate African farmers to grow trees and to realize other improvements in their fields in order to control soil erosion.
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Tenure Security and Women Right Over Land
Journal of Land and Rural Studies, 2016Land tenure system is the relationship between land and people, as individuals or groups, legally or customarily. Tenural security of land has far reaching implication; in one hand it reduce disputes, conflicts and uncertainty and vulnerability of poor and promote sustainable development, on the other it makes easy for transfer of land for more ...
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Land Tenure Security and Peacebuilding in Aceh, Indonesia
Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management (AJEDM) - Focusing on Pro-active Risk Reduction in Asia, 2010In this article, I address whether activities meant to improve land tenure security may have supported or undermined peace-building during the postwar stabilization and transition period of 2005–2008. In 2005, the population of Aceh began recovery from both a 29-year separatist war and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.
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