Land and wealth are closely related in rural Brazil, a country characterized by high levels of inequality in terms of income or landholdings. After presenting a historical retrospective of land concentration and land reform in Brazil, this study evaluates the impact of the land reform programme undertaken in the 1990s on land ownership and land distribution. It is shown that the programme incre...

The purpose of the present study was to ascertain relationship between characteristics paddy growers and awareness indigenous technological knowledge (ITKs) in Bastar area Chhattisgarh State. Twelve villages were chosen as from two blocks (Tokapal Lohandiguda) district. From each selected village, ten by a simple random sampling procedure, thus sample size for 120. data collected through well s...

Many tropical regions are promoting the cultivation of oil palm. In this regard, different national and international organizations promote palm in Thailand. However, socio-economic institutional factors very important to be considered adoption its cultivation. This study aims first determine various adopting cultivation, second, explore role these stated extent The data were collected through ...

The paper explores rationales of the rise and expansion of small scale non-industrial private forestry. The historical aspects of the small scale of forests are also briefly reviewed. In particular, the paper seeks to explain the reason for the increasing number of nonindustrial private forest ownerships with smaller holding size or private forestland parcelization. The main arguments are that ...

Abstract A growing body of evidence underscores that social capital mitigates the impact natural hazards such as floods. But we know less about distribution ties in developing countries regularly hit by shocks. Our study examined differences between demographic groups South Punjab, Pakistan affected 2010 floods, comparing respondents’ levels measured through proxies received support, perceived ...

Our focus on Classical China has thus far been primarily on the areas of political and intellectual history, and we have relied very heavily on narrative sources. However, the Shiji, which was written a century after the close of the Classical age, and subsequent early Imperial histories give us a considerable amount of information concerning issues of economics: tax and landholding patterns, i...

The paper uses the concept of credit limit to analyze the determinants of household access to and participation in informal and formal credit markets in Malawi. Households are found to be credit constrained, on average, both in the formal and informal sectors; they borrow, on average, less than half of any increase in their credit lines. Furthermore, they are not discouraged in their participat...