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Gender and land reform: the Zimbabwe experience
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ISBN: 0773528423 0773529071 9786612863189 1282863185 0773572511 9780773572515 Year: 2005 Publisher: Montreal, Que. McGill-Queen's University Press

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Goebel examines the social forces and effects of the resettlement process, including state policy and legislation, customary norms and practices, local institutions, and ideologies and cosmologies. Her study emphasizes the strategic choices women make in new institutional and household contexts and considers the interests of poor women who have been marginalized within the land reform process.


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Land in transition : reform and poverty in rural Vietnam
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ISBN: 9780821372746 9780821372753 9780821372760 0821372742 0821372750 0821372769 Year: 2008 Publisher: Washington DC : World Bank,

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This book is a case study of Vietnam's efforts to fight poverty using market-oriented land reforms. In the 1980's and 1990's, the country undertook major institutional reforms, and an impressive reduction in poverty followed. But what role did the reforms play? Did the efficiency gains from reform come at a cost to equity? Were there both winners and losers? Was rising rural landlessness in the wake of reforms a sign of success or failure? Land in Transition investigates the impacts on living standards of the two stages of land law reform: in 1988, when land was allocated to households administration


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Landhervormingsproblematiek in Latijns-Amerika
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ISBN: 9075652097 9789075652093 Year: 1997 Publisher: Brussel Koninklijke Academie voor Overzeese Wetenschappen


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Women, mobility and rural livelihoods in Zimbabwe : experiences of fast track land reform
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ISSN: 15709310 ISBN: 9789004279438 9789004281554 9004279431 1322199892 900428155X Year: 2014 Volume: 32 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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This book is based on iterative multi-sited ethnography at Merrivale farm, Tavaka village, and various sites in South Africa. The author reveals how the dynamics generated by fast-track potentially offer new development opportunities – specifically for women. The findings challenge existing expert notions and opinions about women’s rural land use, livelihoods, and rural development. The book examines how negotiations and bargaining by women with family, state, and traditional actors have proved useful in accessing land in Mwenezi district, Zimbabwe. The hidden, complex, and innovative ways adopted by women to access land and shape livelihoods based on transitory mobility are examined. The role of collective action, conflicts, conflict resolution, and women’s agency in overcoming the challenges associated with trading in South Africa are examined within the ambit of the sustainable livelihoods framework, a gendered approach to land reform and social networks analysis.

Privatizing the land
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ISBN: 0415182042 1134674708 1280199067 0203161327 9780203161326 9780415182041 9786610199068 661019906X 9781134674657 9781134674695 9781134674701 1134674694 Year: 1998 Volume: 8 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Privatizing the Land provides an overview of reforms in the state socialist agrarian systems, especially during the 1970's and 1980's in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Using empirical evidence, the contributors provide a balanced assessment of how agrarian economies performed in different communist countries. The Soviet and Eastern European experience is contrasted with reforms in China, Vietnam and Cuba to provide the first comprehensive account of agricultural restructuring after the collapse of communism in Europe and Asia.

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