How can land tenure reform contribute to poverty reduction
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„The vision of a prosperous agriculturally based market economy in which increasingly diversified and commercially oriented small farmers with secure and exchangeable land rights, able not only to feed but also to remunerate themselves and their families while supplying [...] growing cities, generating local employment and national revenue, is powerful, attractive, motivating and valid. The question is how to achieve it.“ (J. Quan 2002:10)
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