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1 Komakech, H. C.; van der Zaag, P.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2012. The dynamics between water asymmetry, inequality and heterogeneity sustaining canal institutions in the Makanya Catchment, Tanzania. Water Policy, 14(5):800-820. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2012.196]
Canal irrigation ; Furrow irrigation ; Catchment areas ; Collective action ; Cooperation ; Water management ; Water allocation ; Water sharing ; Case studies ; Socioeconomic environment ; Land access ; Gender / Tanzania / Bangladesh / Makanya Catchment
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045506)
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It has been suggested that the collective action needed for integrated water management at larger spatial scales could be more effective and sustainable if it were built, bottom-up, on the nested arrangements by which local communities have managed their water resources at homestead, plot, village and sub-catchment levels. The upscaling of such arrangements requires an understanding of why they emerge, how they function and how they are sustained. This paper presents a case study of local level water institutions in Bangalala village in the Makanya catchment, Tanzania. Unlike most research on collective action in which water asymmetry, inequality and heterogeneity are seen as risks to collective action, this study looked at how they dynamically interact and give rise to interdependencies between water users which facilitate coordination and collective action. The findings are confined to relatively small spatial and social scales, involving irrigators from one village. In such situations there may be inhibitions to unilateral action due to social and peer pressure. Spatial or social proximity may thus be a necessary condition for collective action in water asymmetrical situations to emerge. This points to the need for further research, namely to describe and analyse the dynamics engendered by water asymmetry, inequality and heterogeneity at larger spatial scales.
2 Anseeuw, W.; Cotula, L.; Taylor, M. 2012. Expectations and implications of the rush for land: understanding the opportunities and risks at stake in Africa. In Allan, T.; Keulertz, M.; Sojamo, S.; Warner, J. (Eds.). Handbook of land and water grabs in Africa: foreign direct investment and food and water security. London, UK: Routledge. pp.421-435.
Land access ; Land acquisition ; Investment ; Evaporation ; Housing ; Environmental effects ; Smallholders ; Agriculture ; Human rights ; Poverty / Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 ALL Record No: H045692)
3 Quisumbing, A. R.; Meinzen-Dick, R.; Raney, T. L.; Croppenstedt, A.; Behrman, J. A.; Peterman, A. (Eds.) 2014. Gender in agriculture: closing the knowledge gap. Rome, Italy: FAO; Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. 444p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8616-4]
Agricultural development ; Agricultural production ; Agricultural research ; Gender analysis ; Women's participation ; Rural women ; Equity ; Assets ; Livestock ; Marketing ; Labour productivity ; Land access ; Rural development ; Financing ; Households ; Nutrition ; Public health ; Living standards ; Social aspects ; Developing countries ; Case studies
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 630.92 G000 QUI Record No: H046792)
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4 Kafakoma, R. 2015. Safeguarding women land and water rights through establishment of land monitoring and recording systems: emerging lessons from Malawi. In Global Water Partnership (GWP); International Land Coalition (ILC); International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Proceedings of the Joint GWP-ILC-IWMI Workshop on Responding to the Global Food Security Challenge Through Coordinated Land and Water Governance, Pretoria, South Africa, 15-16 June 2015. Stockholm, Sweden: Global Water Partnership (GWP); Rome, Italy: International Land Coalition (ILC); Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 9p.
Gender ; Women ; Empowerment ; Land rights ; Water rights ; Water governance ; Land access ; Land tenure ; Land administration ; Landlessness ; Land policies ; Foreign investment ; Farmland / Malawi / Ntcheu District / Ganya
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047322)
http://www.gwp.org/Global/About%20GWP/Publications/Proceedings%20papers%20Pretoria%20June%202015/9_Robert_Kafakoma_final.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047322.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047322.pdf
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Land and water is central to the social and economic development of Malawi where 85 percent of its population rely on subsistence agriculture. The high population estimated at 16.0 million people coupled with high poverty levels against a total land area of about 9.4 hectares land and water are increasingly becoming scarce resulting into increased levels of conflicts more especially at community levels. Over the past 20 years the country has witnessed increased levels of land conflicts amongst the communities and between communities and large scale land investors. The increased levels of conflicts between the communities themselves and with the large scale investors are all linked to access to land and water which is becoming scarce. This defines the nature and extent of the challenges that face the country as it struggles to address the overarching problems of poverty eradication and deprivation. Malawi adopted a comprehensive land policy in 2002 however the adoption has not been matched with equally progressive supportive land legislations. The delays in approving the new land laws to support the implementation of the policy has become a recipe for increased landlessness, intergenerational land fragmentation, insecure land and water tenure regime, land concentration, inequalities in land and water access, land grabbing, lack of transparency and corruption in land administration and malpractices. With support from the International Land Coalition (ILC), Training Support for Partners (TSP) a local organization in Malawi is implementing a project which is aiming at safeguarding the women land rights through the establishment of land monitoring and recording systems in one of the districts in the Central Region of Malawi. This paper shares the emerging experiences and lessons from the project. Experiences from this project reveal a very close linkage between land and water security as they relate to food security at community level.
5 Patnaik, S. R.; Venkataramanan, S. 2015. Women’s empowerment and increased food security through increased access to land and water: an experience from Jharkhand, India. In Global Water Partnership (GWP); International Land Coalition (ILC); International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Proceedings of the Joint GWP-ILC-IWMI Workshop on Responding to the Global Food Security Challenge Through Coordinated Land and Water Governance, Pretoria, South Africa, 15-16 June 2015. Stockholm, Sweden: Global Water Partnership (GWP); Rome, Italy: International Land Coalition (ILC); Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 10p.
Gender ; Women ; Empowerment ; Food security ; Land access ; Water availability ; Water governance ; Rural areas ; Economic aspects ; Social aspects / India / Jharkhand
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047323)
http://www.gwp.org/Global/About%20GWP/Publications/Proceedings%20papers%20Pretoria%20June%202015/10_SWADHINA_SASWATI_final.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047323.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047323.pdf
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6 Siciliano, G.; Urban, F. 2017. Equity-based natural resource allocation for infrastructure development: evidence from large hydropower dams in Africa and Asia. Ecological Economics, 134:130-139. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.12.034]
Natural resources ; Resource allocation ; Equity ; Water power ; Dams ; Infrastructure ; Water supply ; Land access ; Food access ; Forests ; Energy generation ; Social aspects ; Living standards ; Political aspects ; Ecological factors ; Economic aspects ; Case studies / Africa / Asia / Ghana / Cambodia / Malaysia / Bui Dam / Kamchay Dam / Bakun Dam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048467)
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Large hydropower infrastructure development is a key energy priority in low and middle income countries as a means to increase energy access and promote national development. Nevertheless hydropower dams can also negatively impact people's livelihoods by reducing access to local natural resources such as land, water and food. This paper analyses equity-based resource allocation from an ecological economics perspective, by looking at local resource use competition between different uses (food, energy, livelihoods) and users (villagers, urban settlers, local government and dam builders) in selected case studies in Asia and Africa. It also illustrates from a political ecology approach divergences between national priorities of energy production and growth and local development needs.
7 CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 2018. Gender-equitable pathways to achieving sustainable agricultural intensification. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 12p. (Towards Sustainable Intensification: Insights and Solutions Brief 5) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2018.204]
Gender equity ; Sustainable agriculture ; Agricultural training ; Intensification ; Role of women ; Women’s participation ; Smallholders ; Land resources ; Land access ; Water resources ; Water availability ; Market access ; Socioeconomic environment ; Participatory approaches ; Decision making ; Nongovernmental organizations ; Food production ; Income ; Ecosystem services ; Labour allocation ; Living standards
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H048504)
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Women play an increasingly greater role in agriculture. Ensuring that they have opportunities—equal to those of men—to participate in transforming agriculture is a prerequisite for sustainable intensification. Increased gender equity in agriculture is both a practical and a social justice issue: practical because women are responsible for much of the production by smallholders; and social justice because in many cases they currently do not have rights over land and water resources, nor full access to markets, and often they do not even control the crops they produce. Strategies to promote gender equity must be tailored carefully to the social and economic context.
8 El Ouaamari, S.; Garambois, N.; Fert, M.; Radzik, L. 2019. Development assemblages and collective farmer-led irrigation in the Sahel: a case study from the lower delta of the Senegal River. Water Alternatives, 12(1):68-87. (Special issue: Farmer-led Irrigation Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Investment, Policy Engagements and Agrarian Transformation).
Irrigation management ; Farmer participation ; Collective action ; Agricultural development ; Land resources ; Irrigated sites ; Land access ; State intervention ; Deltas ; Villages ; Case studies / Sahel
(Location: IWMI HQ Record No: H049114)
In Sahelian countries, farmer-led irrigation development has contributed to the extension of irrigated areas in formerly state-led schemes, especially from the 1990s onwards. It has usually consisted of individual approaches, revealing the unequal capacities that farmers have had to develop irrigated agriculture. However, in some cases, farmers have performed collective practices geared towards achieving a more concerted and equitable management of resources. This article is centred on such collective enterprises. It is based on a case study from the delta of the Senegal River. In this region, where state agencies, donors, and investors have set the tone of irrigation development over the last decades, the concerted irrigation development led by the inhabitants of a small village (Thilène) can be considered to be a form of resistance. By drawing on the concepts of 'moral economy' and 'assemblage', and using 'comparative agriculture' methods, we situate the emergence of this collective action in order to understand who has governed it by what means or practices, and to know what have been its outcomes. We see these collective actions as an alternative irrigation development pathway to that led by the state and donors. The results highlight the contingent nature of these
9 Kansanga, M. M.; Luginaah, I. 2019. Agrarian livelihoods under siege: carbon forestry, tenure constraints and the rise of capitalist forest enclosures in Ghana. World Development, 113:131-142. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.09.002]
Forest resources ; Agrarian structure ; Living standards ; Carbon ; REDD-plus ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Land tenure ; Land access ; Displacement ; Local communities / Africa South of Sahara / Ghana / Bosomoa-Kintampo Forest District / Offinso Forest District
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049161)
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Drawing on theoretical insights from agrarian political economy, and based on empirical research in the High Forest Zone of Ghana using in-depth interviews and participant observation, this paper examined the context-specific but often less highlighted impacts of REDD+-based carbon forest development activities on local agrarian livelihoods. We find that although REDD+ intends to align local communities to benefit financially for contributions to carbon forestry, its uptake in the Ghanaian context has created entry points for the displacement of smallholder farmers through unregulated profit-driven and restrictive plantation-style carbon forest activities. This yields landless smallholder farmers whose labour is craftily integrated into a capitalist carbon forestry regime as tree planters, with many others striving to reproduce themselves through exploitative sharecropping arrangements and corrupt ‘backdoor’ land deals. We emphasize that, ‘more than carbon’ accumulation engendered by REDD+ is fast moving beyond land grabs to a more complex dimension in which the labour and financial resources of marginalized groups are further appropriated by forest investors, and their relatively powerful counterparts in what we term intimate exploitation. Given the ongoing plight of smallholder farmers, particularly the multitude of ‘hungry’ migrant farmers who seek ‘salvation’ in the High Forest Zone, it is obvious that REDD+ is pushed at the expense of ensuring food security. To sustainably address current land-related agricultural production bottlenecks and empower local communities to directly benefit from REDD+, we recommend that rather than centralizing both carbon rights and land rights in the hands of the state and a few private investors, community forestlands should be returned to local people under community-led forest management approaches. Local control of both land and carbon stocks will promote sustainable coexistence of smallholder agriculture and carbon forestry.
10 de Bont, C.; Komakech, H. C.; Veldwisch, G. J. 2019. Neither modern nor traditional: farmer-led irrigation development in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. World Development, 116:15-27. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.11.018]
Farmer managed irrigation systems ; Groundwater irrigation ; Initiatives ; Traditional methods ; Modernization ; Irrigated farming ; Wells ; Food crops ; Cash crops ; Markets ; Agrarian structure ; Smallholders ; Land access ; State intervention / Africa South of Sahara / United Republic of Tanzania / Kilimanjaro / Kahe
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049169)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X18304248/pdfft?md5=b48636491a19a986bdbfb32de90fda20&pid=1-s2.0-S0305750X18304248-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049169.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049169.pdf
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The debate around what kind of irrigation, large- or small-scale, modern or traditional, best contributes to food security and rural development continues to shape irrigation policies and development in the Global South. In Tanzania, the irrigation categories of ‘modern’ and ‘traditional’ are dominating irrigation policies and are shaping interventions. In this paper, we explore what these concepts really entail in the Tanzanian context and how they relate to a case of farmer-led groundwater irrigation development in Kahe ward, Kilimanjaro Region. For our analysis, we rely on three months of qualitative fieldwork in 2016, a household questionnaire, secondary data such as policy documents and the results of a mapping exercise in 2014–2015. In the early 2000s, smallholders in Kahe started developing groundwater. This has led to a new, differentiated landscape in which different forms of agricultural production co-exist. The same set of groundwater irrigation technologies has facilitated the emergence of different classes of farmers, ranging from those engaging with subsistence farming to those doing capitalist farming. The level of inputs and integration with markets vary, as does crop choice. As such, some farms emulate the ‘modern’ ideal of commercial farming promoted by the government, while others do not, or to a lesser extent. We also find that national policy discourses on irrigation are not necessarily repeated at the local level, where interventions are strongly driven by prioritization based on conflict and funding. We conclude that the policy concepts of traditional and modern irrigation do not do justice to the complexity of actual irrigation development in the Kahe case, and obfuscate its contribution to rural development and food security. We argue that a single irrigation technology does not lead to a single agricultural mode of production, and that irrigation policies and interventions should take into account the differentiation among irrigators.
11 Arulingam, Indika; Nigussie, Likimyelesh; Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali; Debevec, Liza. 2019. Youth participation in small-scale fisheries, aquaculture and value chains in Africa and the Asia-Pacific. Penang, Malaysia: CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems. 66p. (CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems Program Report: FISH-2019-14)
Small-scale fisheries ; Youth employment ; Participation ; Aquaculture ; Value chains ; Fishers ; Gender ; Women's empowerment ; Access to information ; Education ; Land access ; Financing ; Income generation ; Policies ; Strategies ; Technology ; Living standards ; Decision making ; Social status ; Working conditions ; State intervention ; Stakeholders ; International organizations ; Economic aspects ; Political aspects ; Agricultural sector ; Ecosystems / Africa / Asia and the Pacific / Egypt / Nigeria / United Republic of Tanzania / Zambia / Bangladesh / Cambodia / Myanmar / Solomon Islands
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049615)
https://digitalarchive.worldfishcenter.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12348/3937/5872a0e98fae8e846953753d08558376.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049615.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049615.pdf
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IWMI, a managing partner of FISH, conducted an assessment of youth participation in SSF, aquaculture and value chains between November 2017 and May 2018. The assessment was conducted in Africa and the Asia-Pacific, with a particular focus on the FISH focal countries of Egypt, Nigeria, Tanzania and Zambia in Africa and Bangladesh, Cambodia, Myanmar and Solomon Islands in the Asia-Pacific. The objectives of this study were to (i) assess the participation of youth in fisheries and aquaculture, including opportunities and challenges for participation, (ii) understand what WorldFish and key partners (government organizations, nongovernmental organizations [NGOs] and others) are doing in the focal countries in relation to youth participation, and (iii) (based on the former two points) provide potential areas for further research that could support improved youth participation in aquaculture, SSF and value chains. In this report, definitions of SSF and aquaculture are adopted from WorldFish.
12 Kmoch, L.; Palm, M.; Persson, U. M.; Jepsen, M. R. 2020. Access mapping highlights risks from land reform in upland Myanmar. Journal of Land Use Science, 22p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2020.1836053]
Land reform ; Land access ; Highlands ; Land use ; Household income ; Living standards ; Customary tenure ; Land rights ; Farmland ; Shifting cultivation ; Homegardens ; Economic value ; Forests ; Scrublands ; Stakeholders ; Communities ; Villages / Myanmar / Chin / Lailo / Tuilangh / Tualzang / Tungzang
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050027)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1747423X.2020.1836053?needAccess=true#aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGFuZGZvbmxpbmUuY29tL2RvaS9wZGYvMTAuMTA4MC8xNzQ3NDIzWC4yMDIwLjE4MzYwNTM/bmVlZEFjY2Vzcz10cnVlQEBAMA==
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050027.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050027.pdf
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Secure land access is vital for Myanmar’s upland households, who rely on crops and forests to meet their subsistence needs. But recent land reforms threaten to undermine customary tenure and land-use practices in Myanmar. This paper combines income accounting methods with access theory to assess how new legislation may affect four Chin communities in the country’s north-west. Our assessment of 94 households’ land-access mechanisms and economic benefits from different types of land reveals existing land-access inequalities among Chin households and demonstrates communities’ continued dependence on environmental resources, especially those from swidden fields, home gardens and forests. A majority of households would lose all of their land-derived income, if they were denied access to communities’ customarily governed land, e.g., under the Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Land Management Law. Policy stakeholders should therefore intervene, to alleviate land-access inequalities among Chin households and to direct Myanmar’s land-system dynamics onto more just development trajectories.
13 International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 2021. Transformative solutions for inclusive economic growth in West Africa. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 4p. (IWMI Water Issue Brief 15) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2021.204]
Social change ; Gender transformative approaches ; Youth ; Economic growth ; Communities ; Rural urban relations ; Migration ; Land access ; Development planning ; Institutional reform ; Policies ; Climate change adaptation ; Climate-smart agriculture ; Food security / West Africa / Ghana
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050505)
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14 Suhardiman, Diana; Scurrah, N. 2021. Institutional bricolage and the (re)shaping of communal land tenure arrangements: two contrasting cases in upland and lowland northeastern Laos. World Development, 147:105630. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105630]
Common lands ; Land tenure systems ; Customary tenure ; Institutional development ; Highlands ; Lowland ; Land use planning ; Land access ; Land governance ; Collective action ; State intervention ; Political aspects ; Farmers ; Households ; Livelihoods ; Strategies ; Rural areas ; Villages ; Local communities ; Case studies / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Houaphan / Viengxay / Khouan / Navit / Pa Khom
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050547)
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This article examines the factors shaping communal land tenure and livelihood practices in two villages in Houaphan province, Northeastern Laos. It employs the concept of institutional bricolage to show how local actors combine communal tenure, state intervention, donor programs and local power relations to (re)shape formal rules and day-to-day land tenure and livelihood practices. In particular, it highlights how state territorial strategies in lowland and upland rural spaces have differently shaped state interventions in communal land use and access, producing hybrid forms of communal land management rules and practices. The two cases highlight different processes by which communal tenure is eroded or adapted in the process of state incorporation, raising questions about competing authorities over land and the interests and objectives of different actors in land administration. The village cases illustrate how local communities’ (in)ability to shape, adapt, and reproduce institutional rules and arrangements pertaining to access and use of communal land is closely interlinked with: 1) how farm households perceive communal land tenure in relation to their livelihood options and farming strategies; 2) how power relations among local communities and between local communities and state actors shape decision-making processes and distributional outcomes; and 3) the role of the state in sustaining and advancing its control over land and how this changes over time.
15 Fabricius, C.; Novellie, P.; Ringler, C.; Uhlenbrook, Stefan; Wright, D. 2021. Resilience in agro-ecological landscapes: process principles and outcome indicators. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 36p. (WLE Legacy Series 4) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2022.206]
Agroecology ; Agricultural landscape ; Ecosystem resilience ; Indicators ; CGIAR ; Research programmes ; Impact assessment ; Monitoring ; Case studies ; Meta-analysis ; Sustainability ; Production systems ; Agrifood systems ; Soil management ; Agroecosystems ; Ecosystem services ; Biodiversity ; Land access ; Land rights ; Farm income ; Gender equity ; Social inclusion ; Livelihoods ; Governance ; Institutions ; Stakeholders
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050974)
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This paper explores outcome indicators and process principles to evaluate landscape resilience in agro-ecosystems, drawing on outcome indicator case studies of the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). Four questions are addressed: (1) which outcome indicators and process principles feature most prominently in the seminal literature on resilient agro-ecological landscapes? (2) to what extent are these principles represented in CGIAR Outcome Impact Case Reports (OICRs) and selected peer-reviewed studies? (3) how does the use of process principles in the case studies compare to their occurrence in the theoretical literature? and (4) which process principles co-occur with related outcome indicators in the OICRs? The findings enable researchers and practitioners to be more specific about the outcomes and processes that drive resilience in agro-ecosystems, thereby informing adaptive program management. Seven novel research themes are proposed.
16 Suhardiman, Diana; Phayouphorn, A.-M.; Gueguen, A.; Rigg, J. 2023. Silent transitions: commercialization and changing customary land tenure systems in upland Laos. Land Use Policy, 126:106541. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106541]
Land tenure systems ; Customary tenure ; Commercialization ; Land access ; Land rights ; Tea industry ; Shifting cultivation ; Land use ; Equity ; Farmers ; Agrarian reform ; Institutions ; Households ; Strategies ; Villages ; Case studies / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Phongsaly / Khwaykham
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051670)
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What happens to local institutional arrangements regarding access and use of communal land under the forces of agricultural commercialization? Taking Khwaykham village in Phongsaly province, Laos as a case study, this paper sheds light on this question as farm households in the settlement have progressively transitioned to commercial farming, specifically tea cultivation. Traditionally, farm households’ access and rights to use the land were embedded in their swidden agriculture practices. The adoption of tea has increasingly fixed land use rights, making land sticky at the household rather than communal level. How, why and with what effects this occurs are the focus of the paper. We argue that while this transition to tea cultivation has benefited – in income terms – most farm households in the village, it has also created an agrarian context for increased inequity between those households who rapidly took the opportunity from the tea boom and others who have missed out on it.
17 Kabuli, A.; Enokenwa Baa, Ojongetakah; Davis, K. 2024. A landscape analysis of youth engagement in agripreneurship in Malawi. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Initiative on Diversification in East and Southern Africa. 26p.
Youth ; Participation ; Agriculture ; Entrepreneurship ; Agribusiness ; Sustainability ; Finance ; Loans ; Market access ; Intervention ; Strategies ; Policies ; Agricultural value chains ; Land access ; Private sector ; Non-governmental organizations / Malawi / Chikwawa / Balaka / Nkhotakota / Nkhatabay
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052710)
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This report aims to explore the multidimensional challenges and opportunities for youth in agripreneurship in Malawi for a better understanding of interventions for youth in agribusiness. It examines the enabling and disenabling environment for young agripreneurs and how best to engage youth within the agribusiness sector. The report draws on in-depth interviews, workshops, and secondary literature to highlight key issues and strategies to engage youth agripreneurs in Malawi. It also offers recommendations for actors, practitioners, and policymakers to enhance transformative interventions for youth participation in agribusiness. Suggested measures include improving access to input, market, and equipment, setting up quota systems targeting youth agripreneurs, and better coordinating youth programs between ministries and the private sectors. The report also emphasized that these strategies are not just to achieve youth inclusion in agribusiness but also for the sustainability of youth programs which contribute to building resilient societies.
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