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Better Land Access for the Rural Poor: Lessons from Experience and Challenges Ahead
(International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), 2006) Cotula, Lorenzo; Toulmin, Camilla; Quan, Julian
"This study highlights lessons from recent policy, law and practice to improve and secure access to rural land for poorer groups. It focuses on Africa, Latin America and Asia, while also referring to experience from Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The study examines the links between land access and poverty reduction, shifting approaches to land reform, different means to secure land rights and to achieve more equitable land distribution, the particular vulnerability of certain groups to losing their land rights, and the role of addressing land rights within conflict resolution and peace building. It concludes with broad recommendations for protecting land rights of poorer and more vulnerable groups."
Fuelling Exclusion? The Biofuels Boom and Poor People's Access to Land
(International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008) Cotula, Lorenzo; Dyer, Nat; Vermeulen, Sonja
"This study aims to open up discussion of the way in which biofuels are likely to impact on access to land. Many observers and activists have raised concerns that the spread of biofuels may result in loss of land access for poorer rural people in localities that produce biofuel crops. However, since liquid biofuels are a relatively new phenomenon in most countries (with exceptions such as Brazil and Zimbabwe), there is as yet little empirical evidence. This study aims to pave the way for future empirical research on how the biofuels boom affects land access, by raising key issues, presenting a basic conceptual framework and presenting a suite of (primarily anecdotal) evidence from around the world."
Information Societies and Digital Divides: An Introduction
(Polimetrica, 2008) Sorj, Bernardo
"The topic of this book, the digital divide, refers to the unequal distribution of resources associated with information and communication technologies, between countries and within societies. The case of access to information technologies, provides an excellent opportunity to study the way that one technology-based product, in this case the Internet, can favor both economic and social development, greater freedom and circulation of information and social participation while it also possesses the capacity to deepen social inequality and create new forms of power concentration."
Land Conflicts: A Practical Guide to Dealing with Land Disputes
(Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, 2008) Wehrmann, Babette
"Land conflicts often have extensive negative effects on economic, social, spatial and ecological development. This is especially true in developing countries and countries in transition, where land market institutions are weak, opportunities for economic gain by illegal action are widespread and many poor people lack access to land. Land conflicts can have disastrous effects on individuals as well as on groups and even entire nations. Many conflicts that are perceived to be clashes between different cultures are actually conflicts over land and related natural resources. In the past, Germany has actively supported international declarations and action plans which explicitly demand secured access to land--especially for disadvantaged groups--such as the Habitat II Conference in Istanbul 1996, World Bank Land Research Conferences from 2001 to 2007, EU Second Forum on Sustainable Rural Development in Africa 2007 etc. This guide has been written for all those working in the land sector, in natural resource management and in urban and rural development. It aims to broaden the understanding of the complexity of causes that lead to land conflicts in order to provide for better-targeted ways of addressing such conflicts. It also provides a number of tools with which to analyse land conflicts. Successful analysis of land conflicts is seen as a vital step towards their eventual settlement. Finally, this guidebook discusses a wide variety of options for settling ongoing land conflicts and for preventing new ones. In addition, the guide provides useful training material for educators and lecturers in courses in land administration and land management."

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