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  1. Library Resource
    Vivre dans les interstices de la firme
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    Chad, Sierra Leone, Cambodia

    La manière dont les entreprises agro-industrielles et industrielles investissent les espaces agricoles des pays en développement attire l’attention sur une nouvelle forme d’espace géographique : l’interstice. Relevant d’un cadre mondialisé pour ce qui est de leurs activités et de leur structure financière, ces entreprises créent néanmoins des espaces locaux verrouillés « exorbitant du territoire ordinaire » et, donc, totalement contraires à l’idée d’ouverture et d’aplatissement. Les populations qui reçoivent ces entreprises doivent vivre dans les interstices de la firme.

  2. Library Resource
    Document aggregated from Resource Equity Landwise Database
    January, 2013
    Chad
  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2014
    Central African Republic, Southern Asia

    The aim of the paper was to draw readers’ attention and to take part in the discussion on global land grabbing procederu by governments and multinational corporations, as well as an attempt to explain this phenomenon from the perspective of political economy. This paper deals with questions regarding the global expansion of land acquisitions from the political economy perspective.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2013
    Central African Republic

    "Advocates of reforms in land rights and land markets frequently posit two important hypotheses: (1) African countries must grant land titles to farmers because titles increase land tenure security and facilitate access to input, land, and financial markets; and (2) land markets constitute the most efficient mechanism for allocating resources and improving access to productive resources by the poor, especially women and other marginalized groups...

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2013
    Central African Republic, Norway

    This study explores the impact of changes in land tenure institutions on women's land rights and the efficiency of tree resource management in Western Ghana. We find that customary land tenure institutions have evolved toward individualized systems to provide incentives to invest in tree planting. However, contrary to the common belief that individualization of land tenure weakens women's land rights, these have been strengthened through inter vivos gifts and the practice of the Intestate Succession Law.

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