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Addressing Poverty through Local Economic and Territorial Development
A recent small-scale project entitled
Land Access and Participatory Territorial Development: lessons and policy implications from South Africa and Brazil
is now available on the NRI's website.
This research considered how policies for land access and agrarian development might be integrated into a dynamic and holistic approach to sustainable development with a territorial focus. It undertook conceptual, empirical and comparative policy studies, drawing on existing research and available data, and through supporting case studies by local partners in two districts in South Africa and three rural territories in North East Brazil. It considers the outcomes of land access and agrarian reform programmes at a territorial scale, reviews the efforts underway in each country to develop decentralised and participatory approaches to territorial development, and places debates about land distribution in Brazil and South Africa in this wider context. The synthesis papers identify problems and opportunities in how both land reforms and territorial planning initiatives are currently conceived and implemented in each country and consider the lessons and implications for public policy in Brazil and South Africa, plus the potential wider relevance of the findings at regional and global levels.
The research took place in the period 2004 - 2007 and was funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) Central Research Department.
J. P. Quan, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich
PLAAS 2007
Last modified 2007-11-15 10:17
Karin Kleinbooi - Critical reflections on decentralised land reform