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| | Land reform in Zimbabwe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | What remains controversial in Mugabe's Zimbabwe is the manner of the land reform, its haphazard nature and the widespread suspicion that it is being used to reward Mugabe supporters and attack his opponents, with others (including thousands of black Africans who worked the white owned farms and those experiencing famine) losing out. | | | Britain withdrew aid to the land reform programme, accusing Mugabe of giving the land to his "cronies". | | | The eviction of the mostly white farmers has been partly blamed by aid agencies and critics for Zimbabwe's worst famine in living memory which left about two thirds of the 11.6 million people facing severe food shortages.* [1] |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reform_in_Zimbabwe
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| | LAND REFORM IN VENEZUELA |
| | The Venezuelan government named this land reform program after Ezequiel Zamora, a revolutionary liberal leader from the nineteenth century who advocated a far-reaching land reform program for the peasantry and expressed an intense hostility to the land-owning oligarchy. | | | Since the arrival of the Spanish in 1492, notes Braulio Alvarez, long-time peasant activist and former director of Venezuela’s National Land Institute, “we have been struggling for equality, justice, and an end to exploitation.” Access to land rights is a key component in this struggle for human dignity. | | | This struggle for land rights has not been without its problems. |
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http://www.rethinkvenezuela.com/downloads/landreform.htm
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| | United Nations - OCHA IRIN Web Special Land reform in Southern Africa |
| | A common view is that governments in the region have been complicit in the preservation of land alienated by a powerful elite. | | | This reluctance is due to the lack of viable policies and programmes, and is also a response to policy trends - in practice if not in rhetorical terms - away from the pro-poor agenda that donors feel should be the focus of land reform policies," the 14-member think-tank noted. | | | Even liberation movements, once in power, are often accused of dropping their radicalism, preferring to join the privileged. |
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http://www.irinnews.org/webspecials/landreformsa
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| | Venezuela's Agrarian Land Reform: More like Lincoln than Lenin |
| | Land reform poses perhaps the greatest challenge yet to Chavez’s stormy presidency, as it historically has been the Achilles’ heel of left-of-center regimes. | | | In fairness, it certainly looks like the government is on the cusp of expropriating some private lands, though it would only do so if the INTI determines such land to be fallow or unlawfully gained. | | | That noted, Chavez would be well advised to consolidate the gains already made by the newly landed peasants on public lands. |
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http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1384
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| | NRP 58 Land tenure reform and the balance of power in eastern and southern Africa |
| | At the same time, some authority over land is being concentrated more at the centre, amply illustrating the essentially political nature of property relations and the time-old reluctance of central governments to release powers. | | | The thoroughly political nature of land distribution and security means that ‘reform’ readily becomes a focus in times of political uncertainty. | | | Kenya is the most recent country to establish a commission of inquiry into land matters (1999). |
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http://www.odi.org.uk/nrp/58.html
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| | Zimbabwe: Abuses Plague Land Reform (Human Rights Watch, 8-3-2002) |
| | In the forty-page report, “Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe,” Human Rights Watch provides testimonies from people who said that many of those who wanted land under the “fast track” program had to show support for the ruling party, ZANU-PF, and those who supported the opposition were denied land. | | | Many of the people who were supposed to benefit from this reform have actually been targets of the violence | | | Human Rights Watch also received reports of discrimination in the distribution of land on political grounds. |
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http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/03/zimbabwe0308.htm
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| | Brazil: Land Reform & Homeless Activists |
| | There are approximately 4.8 million families without land in Brazil, and, in the past 10 years alone, more than 1,000 rural workers involved with the struggle for land reform have been assassinated. | | | Human rights groups point out that although Brazil is a signatory to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the government has failed to deliver either of the two reports due on its progress in adopting policies advocating such rights. | | | Most of the properties that have come under suspicion are located in the Amazon states of northern and western Brazil. |
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http://www.1worldcommunication.org/brazil.htm
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| | Narco News: Land Reform in Venezuela |
| | They also condemned the repression from “insubordinate sectors” that hope to use mercenary killers to maintain their privilege with threats and assassinations. | | | In the last few years, mercenaries have killed 79 people for defending their land. | | | Speaking for the peasant and indigenous leaders who had come from other countries, Rafael Alegría from Vía Campesina expressed his solidarity with the Venezuelan people. |
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http://www.narconews.com/Issue31/article862.html
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| | BBC NEWS World Africa Land reform or revolution? |
| | I think the government should nationalise all land and re-distribute it based on logical and fair factors. | | | None of the African leaders has ever condemned Mugabe on land grabs. | | | Do you believe there can be land reform without revolution? |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/world/africa/4728257.stm
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| | TAU Bulletin -- The State Against Its Citizens |
| | The landowner is excluded from the process of the land claim until it is published in the Government Gazette. | | | The process of land restitution is based on land claims. | | | This is in general the case with arable land. |
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http://www.rescuewithoutborders.org/id41.html
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| | Land Reform in the Philippines |
| | Personal observations as an American GI in 1945: We thought we were badly fed, but local children were salvaging our garbage. | | | Meantime, he has a special claim on virgins of the barrio; for "to own the land is to own the people" -- Henry George. | | | Land taxation raises money, and that without burdening any useful activity; by contrast, Liberal "land reform" buyouts cost money, raised, if at all, by taxing commerce, industry and labor in the cities and aborting urban development, the very thing this country needs most. |
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http://www.progress.org/land/mason.htm
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| | Zimbabwe Land Reform |
| | Subsequent to these proceedings, however, the relationship between the Zimbabwean government and donor governments faced instability, and Zimbabwe accused these governments of attempting to maintain the colonial distribution of wealth. | | | This interdict was overturned one year later after the government allegedly reformed its policies and procedures. | | | Moreover, much of the land that had been distributed, remained in the hands of the black elites, and was not accessible for lower-class Zimbabweans. |
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http://www.hrcr.org/hottopics/zimbabwe.html
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| | Market-Assisted Land Reform: An Indecent Proposal |
| | Extra-economic reasons like kinship, prestige and political power persist as powerful motivations for landowners to hold on to their lands. | | | Occupancy of land (which is not the case in some pilots described by the World Bank study), a strong community organization and backing from the state's compulsory powers under CARP are indeed leverages beneficiaries may use in negotiating with landowners for a lower land price. | | | In their presentations, the two World Bank experts not only affirmed the criticisms on CARP raised by the World Bank Report on the Philippines in 1998 but brought their discourse to a general criticism of what they called expropriative or administrative land reform. |
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http://www.philsol.nl/D-RicReyes-WB-mar99.htm
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| | LAND TENURE REFORM AND RURAL LIVELIHOODS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA - ODI Natural Resource Perspectives Number 38 |
| | This paper reviews land tenure reform on communal land against the background of the repossession of private land occupied by white settlers. | | | Land which has been acquired in this way is held by the king ‘in trust for the nation’. | | | With the support of the opposition, it conducted a national consultation on the land question, culminating in a National Conference in Windhoek in June 1991. |
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http://www.odi.org.uk/nrp/39.html
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| | Groutville Land Reform |
| | Now, a land reform project initiated by the KwaDukuza TLC and the Department of Land Affairs has been launched to secure land tenure rights for 3 400 families living on state land within Groutville. | | | The scope of the project is to upgrade tenure rights from a "Permission to Occupy" status to a freehold right. | | | It is a historically disadvantaged region that has survived the onslaught of apartheid, economic isolation and decline through the resilience of its people, and the dynamic leadership and legacy of Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Chief Albert John Luthuli. |
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http://www.groutvillelandreform.co.za
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| | The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 |
| | We are delighted to announce that we have received funding from the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and Highlands and Islands Enterprise to support the development of this website and for a programme of awareness raising and support across Scotland on the Land Reform Act (Part 2). | | | A priority in the immediate future is to promote the Land Reform Act to those who could benefit from it and to provide what assistance and help we can in exercising your rights under the Act. | | | submitted after land have been put on the market. |
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http://www.landreformact.com
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| | FAO : SD Dimensions : Institutions : Land tenure |
| | Empty and populated landscapes: the Bedouin of the Syrian Arab Republic between "development" and "State" | | | Indigenous peoples, land tenure and land policy in Latin America | | | The reform and implementation of land policy in Mozambique - a case study of FAO support |
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http://www.fao.org/sd/ltdirect/landrf.htm
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| | Inkezo Land Company - Independant Land Reform Initiative |
| | Rural peace and economic and political and stability will be promoted as a consequence. | | | The end product of rural land reform should be a significant change in the racial distribution of land ownership and a well-balanced mix of farming systems under a variety of secure tenure forms. | | | • Government has set a land redistribution target of 30% of currently white owned land by 2014. |
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http://www.inkezo.co.za
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| | Land Reform Act |
| | "Indian people in eastern Oklahoma now hold just one-third of one percent of the land they held 100 years ago," Smith said. | | | The bill, known as the Five Nations Indian Land Reform Act, was set aside by one of its sponsors, Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), at the request of oil and gas producers. | | | Our people are down to the last 0.2% of one percent of the land we were originally allotted. |
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http://www.chadsmith.com/land.htm
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| | Land reform |
| | The linkages between land reform and land tenure, on the one hand, and land use, on the other, have long been the subject of research. | | | The Political Economy of Land in Transition Economies. | | | Deforestation, land use, and property rights: Empirical evidence from Darien, Panama. |
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http://www.iascp.org/humboldt.html
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| | Tthornton : |
| | Landholders after the 1952 reforms were limited to owning 200 feddans (1 feddan = 1.038 acres) and were compensated for lands seized by the government. | | | On September 9, 1952, Egypt's ruling "Free Officers" instituted the first of a series of land reforms aimed at redressing what was seen as an imbalance in land ownership (70% of the arable land had been in the hands of 1% of the population; by 1970, land ownership had increased to 10% of the population.) | | | The state redistributed seized lands in small plots to peasants, who in return were compelled to join agricultural cooperatives from which they received credit, seed, fertilizer, and other forms of assistance. |
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http://www.nmhschool.org/tthornton/land_reform_under_nasser.htm
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| | Zimbabwe's Land Reform |
| | Zimbabwe has denied reports that it plans to end private land ownership. | | | Policy on land which is not part of the land reform programme is not changing, a statement said. | | | "This position only applies to land acquired by the state under land reforms, and does not in any way invalidate or supersede other lawful forms of tenure which, in any case, are recognised and protected by the laws of the land," the Herald newspaper reports. |
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http://www.progress.org/2004/land54.htm
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| | Kyrgyzstan Land Reform Project |
| | Urban Land Reform Newsletter #16 has been issued. | | | The Kyrgyzstan Land Reform Project is an international technical assistance project, sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Chemonics International. | | | The purpose of the project is to provide support to the Government and the citizens of Kyrgyzstan in the implementation of all aspects of the land reform. |
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http://www.landreform.kg/en/index.shtml
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| | Scotsman.com News - Land reform |
| | AS MAX Hastings attacks the 'war on landowners', Jeremy Watson asks if the historian has a case. | | | THREE years of Scottish land reform has had less effect than its supporters hoped or its critics expected, a leading estate agent has claimed. | | | HIGHLAND community supports a family in their struggle to buy a piece of land in defiance of... |
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http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=694
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| | Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement Friends of the MST - United States |
| | The Congressional Committee of Inquiry on Land Issues (CPMI) concluded its activities, approving a lateral report that criminalizes the MST’s activities and impedes progress for agrarian reform. | | | The document is so reactionary that it ends up recommending the approval of two bills that classify the behavior of those who occupy land in order to pressure the government to make agrarian reform as heinous and a terrorist act. |
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http://www.mstbrazil.org
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| | Nepal - LAND REFORM |
| | There were several loopholes in the acts, however, which continued to allow large landholders to control most of the lands. | | | Most of the landlords who were granted state lands were not directly involved in farming but contracted with tenant farmers on a customary, and hereditary, basis. | | | The state extended its control over the land by the administrative device of making land grants and assignments and raising revenues. |
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http://countrystudies.us/nepal/42.htm
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| | Land Research Action Network |
| | One month before the shooting, 2631 peasants had been evicted from their land by the local authorities to make way for the planned airport. | | | The peasants were opposing the planned construction of a new international airport in a fertile area of Lombok. | | | Since land is their only means of livelihood, the right to food of these peasants' families is threatened. |
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http://www.landaction.org
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| | land reform on Encyclopedia.com |
| | (a document on agrarian reform for countries such as Brazil, was published by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace)(Brief Article) | | | Latin church finds document timely as it fights to defend landless poor.(Vatican's "For a Better Distribution of Land: The Challenge of Agrarian Reform")(Cover Story) |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/X/X-landrefo.asp
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| | Venezuelanalysis.com - Opinion and analysis page |
| | Venezuela: the promise of land for the people | | | Venezuelan Land and Factory Expropriations as seen from the Labor Ministry and the Union Federation | | | This site contains some copyrighted material that in some cases has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. |
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http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?sec=land
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| | FAST TRACK LAND REFORM IN ZIMBABWE |
| | Violence and Intimidation in the Course of Land Occupations | | | Land Reform in the Twenty Years After Independence |
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http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/zimbabwe
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| | Stolypin Land Reform |
| | Each householder who has allotment land in communal ownership (obshchinnoe vladenie) can at any time ask for his portion of such land to be confirmed as his individual property (lichnaia sobstvennost'). | | | From this time such lands are exempted from the restrictions placed on them as a result of the redemption debt and peasants receive the right freely to exit the Land Commune and to acquire as individual householders (domokhoziain) the rights of personal ownership of holdings from the Land Commune's allocation. | | | In the years 1907-1915 there were 2,755,633 applications to leave the Communes and 2,008,432 actual departures. |
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http://cla.calpoly.edu/~mriedlsp/History315/stolypin.html
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| | Liberation Theology and Land Reform |
| | In nation after nation, a tiny minority of the wealthy hold vast areas of fertile land. | | | for understanding has led back, as well, to the Bible -- and there, in the ancient economic laws of the Old Testament, may be found principles that, if applied mindfully of today's economic complexities, can provide the directions out of the Wasteland -- to the Promised Land of economic sanity and justice. |
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http://www.landreform.org
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| | Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy For Land, Liberty, Jobs and Justice |
| | Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas by George Collier with Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello, paints a vivid picture of the historical struggle for land faced by the Maya Indians, who are among Mexico¹s poorest people. | | | Food First was proud to sponsor the US tour of Mangaliso Kubheka, National Organizer of South Africa's Landless Peoples' Movement. | | | Food First is proud to announce the timely publication of the third edition of our classic book on the roots of the Zapatista rebellion. |
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http://www.foodfirst.org
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| | Chief Directorate Land Reform |
| | Putting into operation of systems designed for implementation of land reform policies, |
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http://land.pwv.gov.za/about/chief_dirctrt/land_reform.htm
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| | Understanding Economics |
| | Rhode Island Says Yes to Freedom, No to Paternalistic Government -- in a lopsided vote, legislators acted in favor of pain relief for medical patients and in favor of basic human rights. | | | Excessive Government Spending is not news, but the details and the extent of it may surprise you. | | | Land Reform always fails except where site value taxation is used. |
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http://www.henrygeorge.org
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| | Land Claims Court of South Africa |
| | Hlaneki and others v Commission on Restitution of Land Rights and others | | | Receive notification of new addititions to the site by entering your email address below: |
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http://www.law.wits.ac.za/lcc
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| | Oxfam GB - redirecting.noindex |
| | You are being redirected to Oxfam's Land Rights Resource Bank | | | If you're still waiting, or your browser doesn't support redirects, please |
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http://www.oxfam.org.uk/landrights
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| | Department of Agrarian Reform Official Website |
| | The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) intensifies access to health services for farmers in Eastern Visayas. | | | In a tie-up with the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), the two agencies now accelerate the enrollment of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) as well as non-ARBs in agrarian reform communities (ARCs) throughout Region VIII to avail of accessible, affordable and quality healthcare services. | | | Other Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) Implementing Agencies |
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http://www.dar.gov.ph
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