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  1. Library Resource
    Document aggregated from Resource Equity Landwise Database
    January, 1992
    Djibouti
  2. Library Resource
    Document aggregated from Resource Equity Landwise Database
    January, 1991
    Zambia
  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1991
    Kenya
  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1991
    Kenya

    It is generally acknowledged that
    insecure and incomplete property rights have large effects on
    the use and management of watershed resources.
    The standard policy response to this problem is
    to privatize farm land, declare riverine areas
    to be public property, and establish a set of
    restrictions on the use of both private and pub
    lic land. This paper presents a more nuanced
    concept of catchment property rights, drawing
    upon key concepts from watershed hydrology and
    the multidisciplinary social science of property

  5. Library Resource
    January, 1992
    Zimbabwe, Sub-Saharan Africa

    This paper is concerned with understanding cattle production in Zimbabwe's Communal Lands, in so-called communal farming systems. Although commercial offtake from Zimbabwe's communal cattle herd is low, communal farmers are productive and rational in their cattle herd management. The economic rationale for cattle ownership is firstly to provide draught power and manure for tillage and secondly to provide milk and meat for local consumption, although the role of livestock in the farming system varies significantly from one part of Zimbabwe to another.

  6. Library Resource
    January, 1992
    Kenya, Sub-Saharan Africa

    This paper employs an historical analysis to consider some of the consequences of conflicting resource use and political friction on resource exploitation within and outside Turkana District during this century. Given this historical context, development alternatives tested to ameliorate food insecurity are reviewed.The article proposes that the stage for political conflicts, environmental degradation and food insecurity within the region was set decades ago.

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