Author: McLain, R.Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Living customary tenure systems in Madagascar: An overview
Author: McLain, R.An exploratory review of legal texts and literature on living tenure systems in Madagascar
Author: McLain, R.African Land Reform Under Economic Liberalisation
Author: Shinichi TakeuchiPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811647259
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
This open access book offers unique in-depth, comprehensive, and comparative analyses of the motivations, context, and outcomes of recent land reforms in Africa. Whereas a considerable number of land reforms have been carried out by African governments since the 1990s, no systematic analysis on their meaning has so far been conducted. In the age of land reform, Africa has seen drastic rural changes. Analysing the relationship between those reforms and change, the chapters in this book reveal not only their socio-economic outcomes, such as accelerated marketisation of land, but also their political outcomes, which have often been contrasting. Countries such as Rwanda and Mozambique have utilised land reform to strengthen state control over land, but other countries, such as Ghana and Zambia, have seen the rise in power of traditional chiefs in managing the land. The comparative perspective of this book clarifies new features of African social changes, which are carefully investigated by area experts. Providing new perspectives on recent land reform, this book will have a considerable impact on scholars as well as policymakers.
Country Profiles of Land Tenure
Author: John W. BrucePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Conservation and Environmental Management in Madagascar
Author: Ivan R. ScalesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136309071
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Madagascar is one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet, the result of 160 million years of isolation from the African mainland. More than 80% of its species are not found anywhere else on Earth. However, this highly diverse flora and fauna is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation, and the island has been classified as one of the world’s highest conservation priorities. Drawing on insights from geography, anthropology, sustainable development, political science and ecology, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of the status of conservation and environmental management in Madagascar. It describes how conservation organisations have been experimenting with new forms of protected areas, community-based resource management, ecotourism, and payments for ecosystem services. But the country must also deal with pressing human needs. The problems of poverty, development, environmental justice, natural resource use and biodiversity conservation are shown to be interlinked in complex ways. Authors address key questions, such as who are the winners and losers in attempts to conserve biodiversity? And what are the implications of new forms of conservation for rural livelihoods and environmental justice?
African Islands
Author: Toyin FalolaPublisher:
ISBN: 158046954X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories of islands off the African coast
Living customary water tenure in rights-based water management in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: van Koppen, BarbaraPublisher: International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
ISBN: 9290909447
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Madagascar
Author: M. D. JenkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Dynamics of Land Tenure and Agrarian Systems in Africa
Author: REDD, Forest Governance and Rural Livelihoods
Author: Oliver Springate-BaginskiPublisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6028693154
Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Experiences from incentive-based forest management are examined for their effects on the livelihoods of local communities. In the second section, country case studies provide a snapshot of REDD developments to date and identify design features for REDD that would support benefits for forest communities.