Land and Institutions
Land, trees, and women: evolution of land tenure institutions in Western Ghana and Sumatra
... individual land rights or tenure insecurity, trees are not planted and well managed under communal ownership regimes in which the extended family often has influence over use rights in cultivated land (for ...
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Does land abundance explain African institutions?
... to land quality if the results are made robust to arbitrary correlation by country or by UN ...in institutions within broad regions, particularly for ...of land rights. The two most influential ...
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Does land abundance explain African institutions?
... the institutions of interest as the main measure. Land rights are increasing in both measures of population density, and slavery has a hump-shaped relationship with ...conclusions. Land rights have ...
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Understanding of Traditional Knowledge and Indigenous Institutions on Sustainable Land Management in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania
... and institutions in Kilimanjaro Region and the neighbouring areas of Usambara show that there existed various land-based practices that implemented different traditional measures of land management ...
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Land institutions and political ethnicity in Africa: evidence from Tanzania
... community institutions were to be supervised by a parallel system of governmental and party bureaucrats, thus effectively eliminating community leaders affiliated with the old colonial ...system. Land was ...
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Does land abundance explain African institutions?
... of land rights emphasize population pressure and the market value of output as key determinants of property ...where land was most scarce and more valuable, though there is only mixed evidence that access ...
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Microeconomic impacts of institutional transformation in Vietnam?s Northern uplands : empirical studies on social capital, land and credit institutions
... major land reform aimed at establishing a quasi-private property regime on agricultural ...agricultural land and issue long term use right certificates (LURC) to almost all farm households and within a ...
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An Opportunity to Switch Energy Sources in Institutions in the Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania and Benefit from Carbon Finance under the Sustainable Land Management Project
... by institutions in the Kilimanjaro Region because through a sustainable land management project en- titled reducing land degradation on the highlands of the Kilimanjaro Region, the government of the ...
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Land abundance and economic institutions: Egba land and slavery, 1830 1914
... the land abundance perspective by tracing how availability of uncleared forest shaped economic institutions among the Egba of southwestern Nigeria between 1830 and ...a land- abundant society. ...
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Does land abundance explain African institutions?
... greater land quality (as well as access to trade), will encour- age increased reliance on slavery conditional on ...to land rights and slav- ...explain institutions and are borne out in comparative ...
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An econometric analysis of the effects of institutions and economic transformation on agricultural land prices: case of Malaysia
... of land settlement schemes operated by state and federal agencies which is essentially agrarian institutional ownership of agricultural land (as opposed to private ownership), one that is prominent and ...
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Land institutions and land markets
... It has often been observed (see, for example, Balcazar 1993, Carter and Zegarra, 1995) that, especially in countries with a dualistic distribution of land ownership, land sales ma[r] ...
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Role of Traditional Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Indigenous Institutions in Sustainable Land Management in Western Highlands of Kenya
... declining land productivity due to various forms of land degradation that include but not limited to: soil erosion, soil nutrient depletion, deforesta- tion and biodiversity loss [30, ...whereas land ...
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Land abundance and economic institutions: Egba land and slavery, 1830-1914
... labour in a land where hired labour is expensive and uncertain.” When James Johnson at- tempted in 1879 to enforce the CMS policy of forbidding its members from holding slaves, he was confronted by a group of ...
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Leasing Land to Farmers: A Handbook for New England Land Trusts, Municipalities and Institutions
... Starting a new farm business comes with huge challenges: securing capital funding, establishing new markets, devel- oping infrastructure, acquiring equipment, improving soils and managing people. But starting a farm on ...
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The institutions of poverty
... A reliable monetary system is critical. High inflation is particularly hurtful to middle- and low-income people. They have little or no opportunity to diversify their portfolios, e. g. buy inflation-robust assets such as ...
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Traditional Financial Institutions and Rural Enterprises in Nigeria: The Case of Ogoni Land
... formal institutions and on the other hand, the banks find it difficult to recover the high cost involved in dealing with small ...financial institutions, namely, the Osusu scheme, in the development of MSEs ...
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LAND USE PLANNING AND LAND TENURE IN TANZANIA
... Focusing on an effective system (effective PRA and CAP) of involving people in preparation and implementation of village involving people in preparation and implementation of village land use plans whereby ...
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Land use and land values in calabar Metropolis
... of land real estate resources in one form or the other for various services that land can ...and land costs, influence household location ...2001). Land is ...But land is also fixed in ...
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Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry
... Notes: n/a = no number is provided because the area of regeneration after harvest in the tropical region and part of the temperate region was not available. In addition, regeneration after selective cutting, as it is ...
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