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Land reform and rights

Land reform is an essential component of efforts to reduce poverty and inequality. Yet redistributive land reform has been off the policy agenda for decades, despite the recognition of its importance.

IDS research has investigated the poverty reduction and livelihood impacts of land reform in southern Africa over a number of years. This work showed how, given the right institutional and policy conditions, land reform can make major contributions to sustainable livelihoods.

IDS research has tracked the livelihood impacts of the radical land reformthat took place in Zimbabwe in 2000 through a longitudinal study. It shows howmany people, especially smallholders, benefitted, despite the negative media images often presented.

Future Agricultures Consortium

The DFID funded Future Agricultures Consortium aims to encourage critical debate and policy dialogue on the future of agriculture in Africa. The Consortium is a partnership between research-based organisations in Africa and the UK, with work currently focusing on Ethiopia, Kenya and Malawi. More details

Livelihoods After Land Reform

This collaborative project, which involves IDS and is led by the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) in South Africa, asks: to what extent is land redistribution in southern Africa achieving poverty reduction and livelihood improvement objectives? More details

Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS) Centre

The STEPS Centre is an interdisciplinary global research and policy engagement hub, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. It aims to develop a new approach to understanding, action and communication on sustainability and development. More details

Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa

Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa was a three-year collaborative project carried out by research partners in Mozambique, South Africa, UK and Zimbabwe, funded by the UK Department for International Development. More details

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Water Grabbing? Focus on the (Re)Appropriation of Finite Water Resources

 Water Alternatives 5.2 (2012)
Mehta, L., Vedwisch, G.J.A. and Franco, J.

Zimbabwe's Land Reform: Myths & Realities

 (2010)
Scoones, I. with Marongwe, N., Mavedzenge, B., Mahenehene, J., Murimbarimba, F. and Sukume, M

Seasonal Hunger, the 2001-03 Famine and the Dynamics of HIV in Malawi

 (2009)
Loevinsohn, M.

Land Tenure Dilemmas: Next Steps for Zimbabwe

 (2009)
Scoones, I.

Contested paradigms of ‘viability’ in redistributive land reform: perspectives from southern Africa

 PLAAS Working Paper 15 (2009)
Cousins, B. and Scoones, I.

Transnational Agrarian Movements Struggling for Land and Citizenship Rights

 IDS Working Paper 323 (2009)
Borras Jr, S.M. and Franco, J.C.

World Bank Land Policy Study Commentary

 (2009)
Moyo, S., Scoones, I. and Cousins, B.

Transnational Agrarian Movements Struggling for Land and Citizenship Rights

 IDS Research Summary RS323 (2009)
Borras Jr, S.M., and Franco, J.C.

Private Standards, Small Farmers and Donor Policy: EUREPGAP in Kenya

 IDS Research Summary 308 (2009)
Humphrey, J.

Farmer First Revisited: Innovation for Agricultural Research and Development

 (2009)
Scoones, I. and Thompson, J.

Contesting Land and Custom in Ghana: State, Chief and Citizen

 (2008)
Ubink, J. and Amanor, K.

Land Reform in the Philippines

 IDS Research Summary (2008)
Saturnino, M. and Franco, F.

The Dynamics of Real Markets: Cattle in Southern Zimbabwe following Land Reform

 Development and Change 39.4 (2008)
Mavedzenge, B.Z., Mahenehene, J., Murimbarimba, F., Scoones, I. and Wolmer, W.

Innovation in agriculture and NRM in communities confronting HIV/AIDS: a review of international experience

 PROLINNOVA Working Paper 18 (2008)
Loevinsohn, M.

Long Row to Hoe: Family Farming and Rural Poverty in Developing Countries

 (2006)
Sumberg, J.

Understanding Policy Processes: A Review of IDS Research on the Environment

 (2006)
Knowledge, Technology and Society Team

Breathing Life into Dead Theories about Property Rights: de Soto and Land Relations in Rural Africa

 IDS Working Paper 272 (2006)
Nyamu-Musembi, C.

Faces of Latin America

 3rd edition (2006)
Green, D.

A 'Blue Revolution' for African Agriculture?

 In 'New Directions for African Agriculture' (2005)
Scoones, I., deGrassi, A., Devereux, S. and Haddad, L.

Dancing to two tunes? Rights and market-based approaches in South Africa's water domain

 SLSA Research Paper 17 (2004)
Mehta, L and Ntshona, Z
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