There are two either explicitly or implicitly and widely accepted ideas about the distribution of land in Ethiopia after the reform of 1975. First, land distribution in rural Ethiopia is highly equitable, for example compared to other African countries where private ownership exists. Second, the land distribution pattern currently observed is basically explained by what happened after the refor...

Livestock production is a key income source in eastern Africa, and 80% of 22 the total agricultural land is used for livestock herding. Hence, ecological and 23 socio-economically sustainable rangeland management is crucial. Our study aimed at 24 selecting operational economic, environmental and social sustainability indicators for three 25 main pastoral (P), agro-pastoral (AP), and landless in...

In the wake of sustainable development, measurable indicators are needed to monitor land resources management. Aerial photograph interpretation, participatory research methods and logistic modelling were combined to establish indicators and to investigate their relationship with local land management systems. Land tenure and customary laws explained the di€erences in ®eld characteristics at Ike...

Peru has been transformed over the course of the past decade into a neoliberal, mineral-based, export-oriented, country. The author evaluates the neoliberal transformation of the country in three parts. First he examines the economic and political transformation of the country in the early 1990s, particularly in terms of how the Peruvian state and economy were rapidly restructured according to ...

Modern cities represent one of the fastest growing ecosystems on the planet. Urbanization occurs in stages; each stage characterized by a distinct habitat that may be more or less susceptible to the establishment of disease vector populations and the transmission of vector-borne pathogens. We performed longitudinal entomological and epidemiological surveys in households along a 1900 × 125 m tra...

The sociology of knowledge can provide another tool for the scholar's workbench as he or she attempts to disclose the deeper meanings of an ancient document. Writers such as Peter Berger, Clifford Geertz, Thomas Luckmann, Karl Mannheim, and Alfred Schutz (note particularly the works cited in the bibliography} have outlined the ways in which people gather and transmit knowledge (or traditions), ...

A case study is presented describing how the South African national cadastral system was insufficient on its own to supply title security and land use control, with respect to newcomers to the city acquiring title in tribal areas. Land registration on its own, or even when accompanied with adjudication, does not necessarily deliver sustainable development. To ensure sustainable development, esp...

„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 que...