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The role of smallholder generation from agriculture in sub-saharan Africa by Delgado, Christopher L.

“…Although pressure on the land has been less of an issue in West and Central Africa than in the highlands of East Africa and parts of Southern Africa, experiences throughout the region suggest that incorporating rural Africans into a sustained process of income growth is a much more complex issue than land reform alone.…”
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Land institutions, investments, and income diversification: Pathways to economic development for Brazil’s quilombo communities by Bowser, William, Nelson, Carl H.

“…Until now, research on the implications of Brazil s land reform policies has not considered quilombo communities in an economic context. …”
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Education and agricultural inputs use by female farmers in Zimbabwe by Matshe, I., Zikhali, Precious, Chilonda, Pius

“…Interestingly, this impact is found to be higher for femaleheaded households in communal areas as opposed to female-headed households in resettlement areas where eneficiaries of Zimbabwe's Fast-track Land Reform Programme reside. This finding confirms the need to promote the education of women, particularly rural women, as part of interventions aimed at empowering female farmers, in the process countering and ending gender-based discrimination in accessing farm inputs.…”
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Is small beautiful? farm size, productivity and poverty in Asian agriculture by Fan, Shenggen, Chan-Kang, Connie

“…To help these small farms prosper under increasing globalization, the governments have to change the “business as usual” attitude. Innovative land reform, for example, is crucial to secure property rights to farmers and to increase farm size. …”
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Crossing spatial analyses and livestock economics to understand deforestation processes in the Brazilian Amazon: the case of Sao Felix do Xingu in South Para by Mertens, B., Poccard-Chapuis, R., Piketty, M.G., Lacques, A.E., Venturieri, A.

“…Road construction, investments in electrical energy, financial credit for cattle, and the land reform policies have all fuelled this process. …”
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Differentials in technical efficiency among smallholder cassava farmers in Central Madagascar: a Cobb Douglas stochastic frontier production approach by Okoye, B.C., Abass, A., Bachwenkizi, B., Asumugha, G.N., Alenkhe, B., Ranaivoson, R., Randrianarivelo, R., Rabemanantso, N., Ralimanana, I.

“…The results also call for land reform policies to be introduced, aimed at making more land available, especially to the younger and full-time female farmers.…”
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Gender-based constraints and opportunities to agricultural intensification in Ethiopia: A systematic review by Mulema, Annet A., Damtew, Elias

“…Ethiopia has relatively equitable land distribution due to the land reform. Although reform has enhanced women’s access to land, participation in decision-making and asset control are yet to be achieved. …”
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Private vs. Community Management Responses to De-Collectivization: Illustrative Cases from China by Liu, J., Dong, J., Long, H., Xu, T., Putzel, L.

“…To uncover reasons for different institutional choices in response to land reform and their effects on forest management, we present two cases, from villages in Guizhou and Yunnan provinces. …”
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Agricultural transformation in Nepal: Trends, prospects, and policy options by Thapa, Ganesh, Kumar, Anjani, Joshi, Pramod Kumar

“…Table of Contents: 1 Introduction Part I Macro-issues in Agriculture 2 Structural Transformation and Growth: Whither Agriculture in Nepal 3 The Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction in Nepal 4 Household Food Expenditure, Dietary Diversity, and Child Nutrition in Nepal 5 Food Inflation in Nepal and Its Implications 6 Climate Change Impact on Agricultural Sector of Nepal: Implications for Adaptation and Resilience Building Part II Productivity Growth and Its Drivers 7 Food Demand System and Projections to 2035: Nepal 8 Seed Sector Development in Nepal: Opportunities and Options for Improvement 9 Use of Chemical Fertilizers in Nepal-Issues and Implications 10 Agricultural Mechanization in Nepal-Patterns, Impacts, and Enabling Strategies for Promotion 11 Agricultural Research and Extension System in Nepal: An Organizational Review Part III Agricultural Diversification 12 Agricultural Diversification in Nepal 13 Non-timber Forest Products (NTFP) and Agro-forestry Subsectors: Potential for Growth and Contribution in Agriculture Development 14 Impact of Migration and Remittances on Agriculture: A Micro-Macro-analysis Part IV Agricultural Trade and Marketing 15 Trends, Structure and Drivers of Nepal’s Agricultural Trade 16 Agricultural Marketing and High-Value Chains: Enhanced Role for Private Sector Towards Value Chain Integration Part V Agricultural Trade and Marketing 17 Agrarian Relations, Institutions, and Land Reform in Nepal 18 Agricultural Credit and Insurance in Nepal: Coverage, Issues, and Opportunities 19 Nepal’s Changing Governance Structure and Implications for Agricultural Development Part VI The Policy Agenda 20 Concluding Chapter: The Policy Agenda…”
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Namibia OH landscape: Challenges, opportunities and collaborative strategies by Angombe, Simon, Gorejena, Brighton, Freeman, Rachel J., Kashona, Hainushka D., Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D., Caron, Alexandre, Hausiku, M., Mwanyengange, I., Richards, Shauna, Shivolo-Useb, S.

“…The National Action Plan on Health Security (NAPHS) of 2020 has facilitated a collaborative agreement between crucial line ministries (Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS), the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT), and the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform (MAWLR)). However, the OH concept remains fragmented in private and government sectors. …”
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Land redistribution, tenure insecurity, and intensity of production: a study of farm households in southern Ethiopia by Holden, Stein, Yohannes, Hailu

“…The feeling of tenure insecurity could be caused by the land redistribution policy in Ethiopia where household size has been the main criterion used for land allocation after the land reform in 1975. This would imply that land rich households should be more tenure insecure. …”
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Comparison of bamboo production systems in six counties in China by Ruíz Pérez, M., Belcher, B.

“…The first phase of land reform seems to have reached a ceiling. There is a wide consensus that the reforms undertaken have triggered a major expansion of the bamboo sector. …”
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The impact of decentralised forest governance: a case study from Bolivia by Jong, W. de, Becker, M., Ruíz, S., Gottwald, C.

“…The principal laws are several decentralization laws, a new land reform law, and a new forestry law. The new regulatory framework has resulted in a progressively larger ownership of forest land and forests by rural communities. …”
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Informing equitable water and food policies through accurate spatial information on irrigated areas in smallholder farming systems by Magidi, J., van Koppen, Barbara, Nhamo, L., Mpandeli, S., Slotow, R., Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe

“…Such information is critical for policy formulation regarding equitable and inclusive water allocation, irrigation expansion, land reform, and food and water security in smallholder farming systems.…”
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What farm size sustains a living? Exploring future options to attain a living income from smallholder farming in the east African highlands by Marinus, Wytze, Thuijsman, Eva S., Wijk, Mark T. van, Descheemaeker, Katrien K., Ven, Gerrie W. van de, Vanlauwe, Bernard, Giller, Kenneth E.

“…Obviously such changes would require considerable capital and labor investment, as well as land reform and alternative off-farm employment options for those who exit farming.…”
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Enkätundersökning till Älvdalens Besparingsskogs delägare by Rosberg, Jonathan

“…During this time the country was conducting the first major land reform in Sweden, namely the redistribution of arable land through government action. …”

Building back fairer from the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa: Some first step reforms in an era of fiscal constraints by Arndt, Channing, Davies, Robert J., Gabriel, Sherwin, Harris, Laurence, Sachs, Michael, van Seventer, Dirk Ernst

“…Turning to the very near term, we underline the need to reduce the uncertainty associated with land reform. In this optic, we recommend consideration of a focus of reform in the near term on favorable dryland areas that can be equipped with supplemental irrigation, with the goal of permitting these areas to specialize in higher value products. …”
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Women’s access to and control over land in the current land administration system in two rural kebeles in Ada’a Woreda of Oromia Region by Woldetensaye, A.

“…Land remained under men’s control throughout history and men’s control over land was strengthened by the rural land reform carried out by the Derg. This tenure reform applied rural land distribution using households as unit for rural land allocation and women were disadvantaged as most rural households were headed by men. …”
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Operationalising the SARD-Initiative in Viet Nam by Larsen, Rasmus Kløcker

“…Recent closure changes, such as decentralisation, land reform, and grassroots democracy seem yet to exert little counter-balancing influence. …”
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Latvian logging companies by Norström, Daniel, Gustafsson, Kristin

“…Since the independence in 1991 lots of forest companies, of different sizes, have appeared as a result of free market forces and the land reform. Great changes in the forestry sector may appear in future. …”
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