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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Land Access"”.
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Land Access as Liberation: A Qualitative Study on Faith, Food, and Farming of Urban and Rural Black Land Stewards in the United States
… have held less than 2% of the nation's farmland, a direct result of race-based discriminatory policies embedded within federal, state, local, and county-level institutions (Daniel, 2013). Structural barriers—ranging from exclusionary lending practices by the U.S. Department of Agriculture …
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Contestations and conflicts over land access between smallholder settler farmers and nomadic Fulani cattle herdsmen in the Kwahu Afram Plains South District, Ghana
… examines the contestations and conflicts over land access between smallholder settler farmers and nomadic cattle herders in the Kwahu Afram Plains South District. Current studies on the farmer-herder conflict in Ghana have emphasised the conflict between indigenous farmers and nomadic herders. …
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The Impetus For Transitions From Relief to Development In Post-Conflict Environments: Food Security, Land Access, and Livelihood Reconstruction Among the Acholi of Northern Uganda
… a result of war, displacement, and encampment, land access and tenure have also become contentious issues. Development projects carried out by both the Ugandan Government and International NGOs in the region have by and large been ill-considered and in some ways have actually created …
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The Money of Qaroon and the Patience of Ayoub: Women and Land in Egypt's Mubarak Resettlement Scheme
… The dissertation tests the assumption that land access (through both joint and full titles) increases empowerment and equality for women in two desert resettlements of Sa’yda and Intilaq, part of the massive Mubarak Resettlement Scheme (MRS). In particular, the dissertation identifies: 1) …
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Accessing land in the city s peri-urban areas: The case of Lilongwe, Malawi
Land access is arguably key to the attainment of sustainable urbanisation and development. Studies show that high urbanisation rates have resulted in a high demand for serviced land and housing in the face of a slow rates of formal provision of the same. This is particularly true in Lilongwe's …
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The Path Forward: Gentrification Management Strategies in Rural Trail-Based Outdoor Recreation Economies
… of manufacturing, the agglomeration of farmland, and the regionalization of key public services. To some policymakers, this economic decline, in combination with the nation’s rural-urban political stratification, serves as reason to further abandon rurality and promote migration to urban …
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Essays on Smallholder Behavior in Response to Resource Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
… Africa: (i) weather shocks and (ii) limited land access for agricultural production. The first chapter looks at how weather shocks affect millet production and millet market price seasonality in Niger. In this paper, we use district-level longitudinal production and price data, along with …
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Gender, authority, and the politics of land in Lesotho
… and outcomes of a U.S. government-sponsored land reform in Lesotho, Southern Africa. The reform was part of a $363 million grant from the Millennium Challenge Corporation to the Kingdom of Lesotho that funded a sweeping change. Instead of local chiefs administering and allocating land, the …
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Making Community Gardens Thrive: A Systematic Study of Factors Affecting the Development of Community Gardens in Greater Victoria
… They face a broad range of challenges, including land access, volunteer management, resources, and funding. By adopting the framework of agency and social capital, my research examines how community garden organizers in Greater Victoria overcome these challenges in establishing and sustaining …
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Land tenure, investment, land markets, off-farm employment, and rural welfare in Ethiopia
… few countries in Africa to implement large-scale land titling programmes aiming to improve land related-investments. Since 1995, Ethiopia also has partially liberalised rural land rental markets with the aim of improving the functioning of these markets. Evidence on whether these reforms resulted …
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Holding on: gender relations, food security and women’s options and strategies for maintaining access to land in the Acholi region of Uganda
… Uganda. It argues that a woman’s maintained access to customary land within these villages is determined not only by her sex and by provisions within Acholi customary law, but also by her marital and parental status as framed by patriarchal ideologies and power relations. It shows that if …
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The Socioeconomic and Political History of Tanda Women, Zimbabwe, C. 1963-2024
… with Tanda women’s inventive agency in securing land access during the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP), often overcoming significant systemic barriers. Confronted by the nation’s economic crisis, Tanda women increasingly turned to informal economic activities such as artisanal gold …
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Hydrologic modeling of low water crossing design performance at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center, Indiana
… the globe; this is especially true for military land management. In an era of fiscal constraint, budgetary reductions, and increasing regulatory oversight, the appeal of efficient and effective sustainability practices is greater than ever. As the military trains, maneuver land access and …
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Understanding Incubator Farms: Innovative Programs in New Farmer Development
… to entry for these new farmers are high; land access, start up costs, finding a spot in the market, and a lack of social support all pose challenges. The last few years have seen an increased interest in supporting beginning farmers and the creation of new programs to do so. Incubator …
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Understanding Incubator Farms: Innovative Programs in New Farmer Development
… to entry for these new farmers are high; land access, start up costs, finding a spot in the market, and a lack of social support all pose challenges. The last few years have seen an increased interest in supporting beginning farmers and the creation of new programs to do so. Incubator …
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Assessement of the progress made to give women access to land and land rights in rural areas in South Africa since 1994: focusing on the Vhembe district municipality
… that has been made when addressing women's access to land and land rights in the Vhembe District Municipality in Limpopo since 1994. Which allows us to critically analyze what changes have taken place in rural areas for the marginalized since the transition into democracy. As a member of the …
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Within and Against the Market: The Guatemalan Campesino Movement under Neoliberal Peace
… movement, based in mostly indigenous small and landless farmers, has organized for agrarian reform since the 1970s. This dissertation explores the movement since the end of the Guatemalan armed conflict in 1996, weighing the impact of such factors as the peace process and a neoliberal …
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Resistance to state-driven land expropriation in northern Uganda: Counter-hegemonic imagination and the reconstruction of identity, authority, territory, and property
… political action in response to state-driven land expropriation in the Acholi-Madi border region of northern Uganda. Based on a two-year period of archival inquiry, interviews, activist research and participant observation, the dissertation examines the case of Apaa, where a large-scale …
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Gender dimensions of land policy in contemporary Mozambique : a case study of Ndixe village, Marracuene District, southern Mozambique
… I set out to investigate women's rights to the land and how these are shaped by gender relations. I investigate the meaning and significance of 'customary' tenure in the present day context, some 25 years after Independence and after the end of 16 years of armed conflict in the countryside. I ask …
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Analysis of institutional gaps that contribute to the situation of food insecurity in uThungulu, Northern KwaZulu-Natal
… South Africa. The study found that inadequate access to and low production of food was common in poor households. When compared to other African countries, the South African Government is seen to have established sound policies aimed at eradicating food insecurity in historically disadvantaged …
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