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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162057403321

Titolo

One billion rising [[electronic resource] ] : law, land and the alleviation of global poverty / / edited by Roy L. Prosterman, Robert Mitchell and Tim Hanstad; with a preface by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Leiden], : Leiden University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-40189-0

9786612401893

90-485-0833-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (454 pages)

Collana

Law, governance, and development. Research

Classificazione

347.3447

Altri autori (Persone)

ProstermanRoy L

MitchellRobert G

HanstadTimothy M

Disciplina

346.0432

Soggetti

Land reform - Law and legislation - Developing countries

Land reform - Developing countries

Poverty - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includs bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Poverty, law and land tenure reform -- 2. Tenancy reform -- 3. Redistributing land to agricultural laborers -- 4. Micro-plots for the rural poor -- 5. Gender and land tenure reform -- 6. Land tenure reform in India -- 7. From collective to household tenure: China and elsewhere -- 8. Formalization of rights to land -- 9. Land rights legal aid -- 10. Concluding reflections.

Sommario/riassunto

Most of the world's estimated 1.4 billion poorest people are still rural. Yet the majority lack ownership (or any secure rights) to the land that is their principal source of livelihood. Although land law and related reforms have transformed the lives of millions of families by providing secure land rights, not all such efforts have succeeded. Over the years, the conventional wisdom concerning law and land tenure reform-what is needed, what is possible, and how such reform contributes to pro-poor development-has changed, sometimes in striking ways. Lawyers at the Rural Development Institute and the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle have spent more than four decades advising



on, helping formulate and assessing the results of land tenure reform efforts around the world. The present volume distills key lessons from that work and parallel work by others.