Search Results - "post-colonial"

Evolution of land policies and legislation in Malawi and Zimbabwe: implications for forestry development by Mataya, C., Gondo, P., Kowero, G.S.

“…This paper describes the effects of the colonial and post-colonial land policies and legislation on the management and utilisation of natural woodlands in Malawi and Zimbabwe. …”
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Situating Zimbabwe's natural resource governance systems in history by Mandondo, A.

“…This paper reviews natural resource governance in Zimbabwe’s peasant sector from colonial to post-colonial times. Governance is considered within the framework of power, process and practice and how these shaped peasant access, control and use of natural resources. …”
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Changing paradigms in Volta Basin water management: customary, national and transboundary by Lautze, Jonathan F., Barry, Boubacar, Youkhana, E.

“…Customary approaches to water management in the Volta are described next, followed by colonial and post-colonial water management developments in Ghana and Burkina Faso. …”
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A Historical Perspective on Land Tenure Security by Sunderlin, W.D., Holland, M.B.

“…We spotlight the broad arc of history tied to land access: the widespread acquisition of land by the powerful dating several centuries back, the partial restoration of local land access beginning in the mid-twentieth century (e.g., post-colonial governments, agricultural land reform and redistribution movements, and forest management devolution), the land-grabbing phenomenon and violence of recent years, and the current uncertainty over future directions for tenure security.…”
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Indigenous and Customary Land Tenure Security: History, Trends, and Challenges in the Latin American Context by Sauls, L.A., Galeana, F., Lawry, S.

“…After defining Indigenous and customary land tenure regimes, we discuss their evolution from colonial encounters through the post-colonial era, on to trends in customary tenure recognition today. …”
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El combate de las plagas agrícolas dentro del contexto histórico costarricense by Cartín L., Víctor, March L., Enrique, Hilje, Luko

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Ethnicity and earnings in a mixed race labor market by Ñopo, Hugo, Saavedra, Jaime, Torero, Maximo

“…This study examines the relationship between earnings and racial differences in a context in which various races have coexisted and mixed during several centuries, as is in many parts of the post-colonial world, and specifically Urban Peru. Coarse indicators of racial differences do not suffice in capturing this relationship therefore we introduce a score-based procedure of white and indigenous racial intensities that allows us to approximate these mixed racial heritage. …”
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The sociology of warabandi: a case study from Pakistan by Merrey, Douglas J.

“…This was the assumption of the designers of the large irrigation systems built by the British and post colonial governments in present day Pakistan and the northwestern states of India.…”
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Competetiveness of the cotton value chain in Africa by Sall, Leysa M., Odjo, Sunday P., Zaki, Chahir

“…While the sector saw several developments in the post colonial period, cotton trade remained primarily in unprocessed cotton because of several structural challenges affecting its production. …”
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Modern economic theory and the challenge of embedded tenure institutions: African attempts to reform local forest policies by Diaw, C.

“…This is in spite of evolutionist theories that predicted its demise and colonial and post-colonial policies that tried actively to accelerate it. …”
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History and status of local cotton Gossypium spp. in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador by Arriel, N.H.C., Cerón, M., Cardoso, K.C.M., Dileo, Pablo Nahuel, González, C., Hoffmann, L.V., Jiménez, H., Klein, Lorena Marina, Lima, M.M. de A., Medina, C., Larrañaga-Monsalve, J.F., Monteros-Altamirano, Á., Muchut, Robertino José, Paytas, Marcelo Javier, Rodríguez-Mosquera, M.E., Salgado Funes, E.F., Spoljaric, Mónica

“…This review attempts to describe the historical context and importance of the cotton economy in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador during the pre and post-colonial and mention the status of conservation and characterization of cotton germplasm, and current national access to these genetic resources in each country. …”
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