This paper compares four different modelling approaches to agricultural expansion and deforestation, and explores the implications of assumptions about the household objectives, the labour market, and the property rights regime. A major distinction is made between population and market based expl...
Angelsen, A.
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[Agricultural expansion and deforestation: modelling the impact of population, market forces and property rights]
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Agricultural expansion and deforestation: modelling the impact of population, market forces and property rights
The brief illustrates two communities’ efforts through collective action to secure property rights over their land. As conflict over natural resources and the need for sufficient farm land continue to increase, both men’s and women’s groups tried to negotiate their rights to manage natural resour...
Siagian, Y.
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Neldysavrino
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[Collective action to secure land management rights for poor communities]
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Collective action to secure land management rights for poor communities
In 1998, a decree issued by the Indonesian government enabled communities in Krui, Indonesia, to register for concession rights over the area of state forest land planted with their agroforests. Registration would provide farmers with the legal right to manage and benefit from these agroforests. ...
Kusters, K.
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Foresta, H. de
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Ekadinata, A.
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Noordwijk, Meine van
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[Towards solutions for state vs. local community conflicts over forestland: the impact of formal recognition of user rights in Krui, Sumatra, Indonesia]
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Towards solutions for state vs. local community conflicts over forestland: the impact of formal recognition of user rights in Krui, Sumatra, Indonesia
This study presents an approach to analyzing decentralized forestry and natural resource management and land property rights issues, and catalyzing collective action among villages and district governments. It focuses on understanding the current policies governing local people’s access to proper...
Komarudin, H.
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Siagian, Y.
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Colfer, C.J.P.
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[Collective action for the poor: a case study in Jambi province, Indonesia]
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Collective action for the poor: a case study in Jambi province, Indonesia
This chapter reviews the literature on natural resource decentralization with an emphasis on forests in developing countries. This literature can be located at the intersection between discussions of good governance and democracy, development, and poverty alleviation, on the one hand, and common ...
As people living near forests in many parts of the world receive recognition of resource management rights, questions arise about where forest boundaries should be set and who should legitimately receive these rights. Drawing on research conducted among forest-dwelling Kenyah communities in Kalim...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Boundary keeping and access to gaharu among Kenyah forest users]
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Boundary keeping and access to gaharu among Kenyah forest users
Katerere, Y.
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Mohamed-Katerere, J.C.
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[From poverty to prosperity: harnessing the wealth of Africa's forests]
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From poverty to prosperity: harnessing the wealth of Africa's forests
When Germans colonized Cameroon in the nineteenth century, most of the ethnic groups living in the forest zone had already established territories. However, Germany then became the legal owner of land and forests. This brutal cohabitation of the new version of the state and customary systems of t...
Oyono, P.R.
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[The foundations of the conflit de langage over land and forest in southern Cameroon]
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The foundations of the conflit de langage over land and forest in southern Cameroon
Cuatomary tenure, mingled with state law and occasional private titling, continue predominantly to govern African rural and forest lands. This is in spite of evolutionist theories that predicted its demise and colonial and post-colonial policies that tried actively to accelerate it. The chapter d...
Diaw, C.
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[Modern economic theory and the challenge of embedded tenure institutions: African attempts to reform local forest policies]
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Modern economic theory and the challenge of embedded tenure institutions: African attempts to reform local forest policies