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Historical trajectories and prospective scenarios for collective land tenure reforms in community forest areas in Colombia
Collective land tenure in Colombia has been a constitutional right since 1991. It is therefore protected with the highest possible status, as it is defined as a fundamental right of indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples. This condition has contributed to
Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment
The Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment provides an in-depth and accessible analysis and theorization of environmental issues in the region. It will help readers make connections between Latin American and other regions’ perspectives, experiences, and environmental concerns. Latin America has seen an acceleration of environmental degradation due to the expansion of resource extraction and urban areas. This Handbook addresses Latin America not only as an object of study, but also as a region with a long and profound history of critical thinking on these themes. Furthermore, the Handbook departs from most treatments on the topic by studying the environment as a social iss...
Trayectorias históricas y escenarios prospectivos de las reformas de tenencia colectiva de la tierra en áreas forestales comunitarias en Colombia
La tenencia colectiva de la tierra en Colombia se considera de carácter constitucional desde 1991. Por lo tanto, está protegida con el máximo rango posible, al ser definida como un derecho fundamental de los pueblos indígenas y afrocolombianos. Esta condición ha hecho posible la creación de instrumentos legales y acuerdos de política pública que favorecen que las comunidades tradicionales puedan garantizar sus medios de vida y proteger su autonomía territorial, en especial en amplias zonas forestales del país. Sin embargo, este reconocimiento no se aplica de manera integral a todos los pueblos tradicionales en el país. El presente estudio, teniendo como referencia la propuesta met...
Public Policies and Food Systems in Latin America
Food problems are the order of the day. Solving the problems of hunger and malnutrition, producing and guaranteeing access to healthy food, preserving the environment, valuing local cultures and ensuring citizen participation are some of the many challenges that permeate the dynamics of food systems. This book addresses the role of Latin American public policies and actions in the configuration of healthy and sustainable food systems. Written by scholars specialized in various disciplines (economy, sociology, policy science, etc.) and hailing from ten Latin American countries, it provides a historical overview of national food policies, examines recent policy changes and explores innovative ...
Incidence and Impact of Land Conflict in Uganda
While there is a large, though inconclusive, literature on the impact of land titles in Africa, little attention has been devoted to the study of land conflict, despite evidence on increasing incidence of such conflicts. Deininger and Castagnini use data from Uganda to explore who is affected by land conflicts, whether recent legal changes have helped to reduce their incidence, and to assess their impact on productivity. Results indicate that female-headed households and widows are particularly affected and that the passage of the 1998 Land Act has failed to reduce the number of pending land conflicts. The authors also find evidence of a significant and quantitatively large productivity-reducing impact of land conflicts. This suggests that, especially in Africa, attention to land-related conflicts and exploration of ways to prevent and speedily resolve them would be an important area for policy as well as research. This paper--a product of Rural Development, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to explore the impact of land policies.
Political Violence in Kenya
An analysis of land and natural resource conflict as a source of political violence, focusing on election violence in Kenya.
The Profits of Power
We examine the impact of ambiguous and contested land rights on investment and productivity in agricultural in Akwapim, Ghana. We show that individuals who hold powerful positions in a local political hierarchy have more secure tenure rights, and that as a consequence they invest more in land fertility and have substantially higher output. The intensity of investments on different plots cultivated by a given individual correspond to that individual's security of tenure over those specific plots, and in turn to the individual's position in the political hierarchy relevant to those specific plots. We interpret these results in the context of a simple model of the political allocation of land rights in local matrilineages.
Property and Dispossession
Offers a new reading of the history of the colonization of North America and the dispossession of its indigenous peoples.
