Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Confrontation between peasant producers and investors in northern Zambézia, Mozambique, in the context of profit pressures on European investors

Norfolk, Simon and Hanlon, Joseph | cop. 2012
  • Author(s): Norfolk, Simon and Hanlon, Joseph
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: legal aspects, conflict, small farms, development strategies, agricultural development, food security, foreign investments, land rights, mozambique
Foreign agricultural investors are clashing with local peasants in Mozambique in a confrontation over agricultural and development models. One large company withdrew rather than take over land, but two other investors chose to push ahead, and have come into conflict with local peasant communities.

Violence and social orders : a conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history : implications for economic development

North, Douglass C. and Wallis, John Joseph and Weingast, Barry R. | 2009
  • Author(s): North, Douglass C. and Wallis, John Joseph and Weingast, Barry R.
  • Publisher: Stanford university. Stanford center for international development (SCID)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: equal opportunity, social development, elite, corrupt practices, political aspects, developed countries, public services, social history, economic development, developing countries, competition
This framework for understanding political, economic, and social systems in human history, which is thought to culminate in competitive, open access orders with rich civil society and the impersonal provision of public goods, also explains privileges and rent creation in so-called natural states.

Gouvernance foncière en Afrique centrale

Ntampaka, Charles | 2008
  • Author(s): Ntampaka, Charles
  • Publisher: Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: governance, land rights, legislation, public administration, burundi, cameroon, chad, congo, central african republic, madagascar
The systems of land rights and land governance in Central Africa (Chad, Cameroon, Congo, Burundi, Madagascar, Central African Republic) are described. Subjects include public administration, legislation, conflicts, problems, and innovations.

Decentralization policy and the struggle for authority over forest resources in Tebo regency, Jambi

Nurrochmat, Dodik Ridho and Krott, M. and Birner, R. | 2006
  • Author(s): Nurrochmat, Dodik Ridho and Krott, M. and Birner, R.
  • Publisher: Institut pertanian Bogor (IPB). Departemen manajemen hutan Fahutan]
  • Pages: 27--35
  • Keywords: decentralization in government, forest management, local government, popular participation, resources conservation, sumatra, indonesia
A case study of forest management from Jambi Province on Sumatra, Indonesia, shows that decentralization does not automatically mean that local communities or groups have a higher capacity for sustainable forest management.

Public participation in wetland rehabilitation with ref[e]rence to long-term management and sustainability : a case study of Hlatikulu and Ntsikeni

Nxele, Innocent Zibonele | 2007
  • Author(s): Nxele, Innocent Zibonele
  • Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: wetlands, environmental management, community participation, sustainable development
A conceptual framework for analysing stakeholder participation in the Hlatikulu and Ntsikeni wetland rehabilitation projects is developed and applied. Recommendations for the long term sustainability and management of Hlatikulu and Ntsikeni wetlands are included.
 

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