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What happens during the creation of private property? Subdividing group ranches in Kenya's Maasailand by Mwangi, Esther

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Implications of the Private Property Right to the Community Forest Businesses Formalization through the Certification Policy by Nugroho, B, Tiryana, T.

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The voracious appetites of public versus private property: a view of intellectual property and biodiversity from legal pluralism by Wiber, Melanie G.

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In land we trust by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…In land we trust - environment, private property and constitutional change by Calestous Juma and J B Ojwang 1996 462pp ISBN 1 85649 418 7 Pbk ZED Books, 7 Cynthia Street, London N1 9JF UK and Initiatives Publishers, PO Box 69313,…”
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Institutions, sustainable land use and consumer welfare: The case of forest and grazing lands in northern Ethiopia by Gebreegziabher, Z., Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Mekonnen, A.

“…An alternative to this is assigning a private property institution. In this paper, we examine the consumer welfare effects of a change in the institutional setting on communal forest and grazing lands, using a cross-section data set of 200 households in Northern Ethiopia. …”
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Institutional change, rural services, and agricultural performance in Kyrgyzstan by Akramov, Kamiljon T., Omuraliev, Nurbek

“…The land reform established private property rights to land, including the rights to transfer, exchange, sell, lease, and use the land as collateral for credit. …”
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The evolution of Chinese entrepreneurial firms: Township-village enterprises revisited by Xu, Chenggang, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…TVEs also played a key role in fostering entrepreneurship and served as a major stepping-stone for institutional changes when legal protections of private property rights were not in place and the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) were slow to react to changing market demand. …”
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Gender, property rights, and natural resources by Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Brown, Lynn R., Feldstein, Hilary Sims, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…The paper particularly examines how the shift from customary tenure systems to private property--in land, trees, and water--has affected women, the effect of gender differences in property on collective action, and the implications for policy formulation and implementation.…”
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Land tenure and implementation of REDD+ in Central Africa by Karsenty, A., Assembe-Mvondo, Samuel

“…In modern tenure systems, the constitution of private property passes through environmental enhancement – clearing as an initial condition of development. …”
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Collective action in watershed management: Experiences from the Andean hillsides by Ravnborg, Helle Munk, Guerrero, M.P.

“…Hence, watershed users do not only manage their individual plots, crops, forests, etc., knowingly or not, they manage landscape patterns and bio-physical processes that transcend their private property. In this context, drawing on experiences gained through participatory action research in a micro-watershed in the Andean hillsides of southern Colombia, this paper describes a process aimed at fostering collective watershed management. …”
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Rural demography, public services, and land rights in Africa: A village-level analysis in Burkina Faso by McMillan, Margaret S., Masters, William A., Kazianga, Harounan

“…Responding to population growth with both improved public services and private property rights is consistent with both scale effects in public good provision and changes in the scarcity of land.…”
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Land Reform and Child Health in the Kyrgyz Republic by Kosec, Katrina, Shemyakina, Olga N.

“…Can the establishment of private property rights to land improve child health and nutrition outcomes? …”
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Institutions, governance and incentives in common property regimes for African rangelands by Swallow, B.M., Bromley, D.W.

“…The general distinctions between open access, state property, common proerty and private property are now well established in the academic literature. …”
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Community-based fish culture in seasonal floodplains and irrigation systems by Sheriff, N., Joffre, Olivier M., Hong, M.C., Barman, B.K., Haque, A.B.M.M., Rahman, F., Zhu, J., Brakel, Martin L. van, Valmonte-Santos, Rowena, Werthmann, C., Kodio, A., Nguyen, H. van, Russell, A.

“…However, it was found that introducing fish culture into complex and dynamic institutional contexts, whereby open access waters lie over private property required a range of social, environmental and economic conditions to be in place for the adoption and continuance of the fish culture model.…”
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Property rights, collective action and technologies for natural resource management: a conceptual framework by Knox, Anna, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Hazell, Peter B. R.

“…Those technologies with long time frames tend to require tenure security to provide sufficient incentives to adopt, while those that operate on a large spatial scale will require collective action to coordinate, either across individual private property or in common property regimes. In contrast to many crop technologies like highyielding variety seeds or fertilizers, natural resource management technologies like agroforestry, watershed management, irrigation, or fisheries tend to embody greater and more varying temporal and spatial dimensions. …”
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Land reform and child health in the Kyrgyz Republic by Kosec, Katrina, Shemyakina, Olga N.

“…Does the establishment of private property rights to land improve child health and nutrition outcomes? …”
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Modeling smallholder farmers' preferences for soil management measures: a case study from South Ethiopia by Tarfasa, S., Balana, Bedru, Tefera, T., Woldeamanuel, T., Moges, A., Dinato, M., Black, H.

“…Unfortunately, the prevailing land tenure regime in the country does not allow private property rights on land and smallholders have very limited access to credit. …”
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Women’s land rights in Africa by Ghebru, Hosaena

“…Reflecting neoliberal thinking about private property rights, Besley (1995) identified three channels through which secure property rights can, in principle, bring about positive economic outcomes, namely (1) tenure security and higher land investment incentives; (2) smooth functioning of the land markets (tradability) that smooths farm input adjustment; and (3) facilitating access to institutional credit by allowing land to be used as collateral. …”
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Commons, customary law and formalization of land tenure by CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights

“…Because they tend to follow imported European systems of land ownership which are individual-centric, it has been easy for governments to regard communal lands as unowned lands, or ‘public lands', and even to be made the private property of the state. The high value of communal lands has been the main incentive. …”
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Women's tenure security on collective lands: A conceptual framework by Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Doss, Cheryl, Flintan, Fiona E., Knight, Rachael, Larson, Anne M., Monterroso, Iliana

“…Within discussions of land and resource rights, there is growing attention to women's rights, mostly in terms of household and individual rights to private property. This leaves unanswered questions about whether and how women's land rights can be secured under collective tenure, upon which billions of people worldwide depend. …”
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