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Charter Cities: Property Reform in Peru
"As formal property registration expanded through the late 1990s and the early 2000s, collateral-based lending increased. Newly formal property owners felt secure enough to make improvements to their property. With formal rights, people were free to pursue earnings opportunities away from their property without fear of losing it to another claimant."
Mwalimu Nyerere’s ideas on land
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Vandana Shiva, who dismisses the Western conception of property which respects only capital investment and not the fact that conception of non-western indigenous communities and cultures recognise that investment can also be of labour and nurturance“ (Shiva 2001: 44). Although Nyerere held this view, in practice his government acted to the contrary. Like the colonial state before him, more and more land, especially of the pastoralist communities was alienated.
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his views are in many ways similar to those of Karl Polanyi on what he calls fictitious commodities.
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Resist/Submit: Biofuels, corporate agriculture and the predicted crisis of land and food
"It is wrong to burn the food of the poor to drive the cars of the rich."
Press Release: The Great Land Grab
The Great Land Grab critically examines the role of the private sector in agricultural development and exposes implications of private sector control over food resources. The report concludes that those who promote the benefits of private sector growth in agriculture fail to recognize that acquisition of crucial food-producing lands by foreign private entities poses a threat to rural economies and livelihoods, land reform agendas, and other efforts aimed at making access to food more equitable.
BRAZIL: Agribusiness Driving Land Concentration - IPS ipsnews.net
From the census figures by state, analysts observe that in areas like São Paulo, the planting of more sugarcane is associated with a 6.1 percent increase in land concentration compared to the previous census, thanks to incentives for the production of biofuels, like ethanol.\n\nThose responsible for the IBGE survey, presented Sept. 30, said the situation in the state of São Paulo shows that one of the main factors in the concentration of land ownership is the expansion of agribusiness and large monoculture crops for export, such as soybeans and maize.
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From the census figures by state, analysts observe that in areas like São Paulo, the planting of more sugarcane is associated with a 6.1 percent increase in land concentration compared to the previous census, thanks to incentives for the production of biofuels, like ethanol.
Those responsible for the IBGE survey, presented Sept. 30, said the situation in the state of São Paulo shows that one of the main factors in the concentration of land ownership is the expansion of agribusiness and large monoculture crops for export, such as soybeans and maize.
Oilfield Jobs. Oil & Gas Jobs, Oilfield Employment Tips
Information and resources about oil rig jobs offshore and on land rigs.
Ghana land disputes -- Diigo list
Berry, Sara. 2009. Property, Authority and Citizenship: Land Claims, Politics and the Dynamics of Social Division in West Africa. Development and Change 40, no. 1: 40: "Since 1992, when outgoing military ruler J.J. Rawlings succeeded himself as President of the fourth Republic, Ghana has presented the anomalous picture of an ostensibly stable democratically elected national regime presiding over local battlefields where tensions over land and chieftaincy erupt, periodically, into open combat."
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More than a week after the launch of an army operation to flush out the Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF) in Mount Elgon, a district along the border with Uganda, the fugitive chief of the outlawed militia has reportedly urged an end to the campaign, but remained defiant towards government.
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