Property Rights: Challenges for Food Security

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1307
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Stanbury, Pamela
Conference:	Reinventing the Commons, the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
Location:	Bodoe, Norway
Conf. Date:	May 24-28, 1995
Date:	1995
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1307
Sector:	Agriculture
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Subject(s):	IASC common pool resources food supply property rights
Abstract:	"The underlying causes of food insecurity are many, including poor infrastructure, bad policies, political instability. This paper examines one factor linked to food security - property rights, broadly conceived as the bundle of rights, duties and institutions associated with land, water or other resources. In developing the framework, this paper first presents a definition to the meaning of food security and then examines ways property regimes affect food security. It concludes with a discussion about specific issues facing common property regimes. The relationship between property rights and food security is of more than purely academic interest. Development planners and policy makers concerned with alleviating food insecurity and food crises need to address the underlying root causes of food shortfalls. And property rights are one very central, though complex and still poorly understood, variable."

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