Resources Tagged: Property Rights
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This case reveals that individual ownership can sometimes reduce de facto security of tenure and undermine socio-economic status. It provides clear evidence of how such settings often 'revert' to informality. From a policy perspective, it shows that intervention must differentiate 'the poor' in...
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Key Resource1/01/1998 The first section of this note focuses in on a new technology, called the ‘technology protection system’ by its developers and ‘terminator technology’ by its opponents. This technology illustrates the potential for patents to impact society at the fundamental level of food production. The...
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20/01/2010 To answer questions about rights to resources in your community, you need to understand the ways people claim and own resources in your region. Ownership defines who can do what with different resources. Four questions that need to be answered.
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In many countries, land rights and land governance systems are weak. Rights and claims to land are often undocumented and overlapping. Demand for land is rising, fueling competition, conflict, and increasing barriers to access for some groups. Evidence suggests thatUNDERSTANDING,CLARIFYING, and...