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Australian Overseas Development Assistance and the Rural Poor
November 2009
Dianto Bachriadi

Australian overseas development assistance is not simply driven by a desire to assist poorer countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The fundamental premise of Australian aid is, first and foremost, its own national interest.

Land Policy Series 7
Germany's Official Development Assistance in Land Policy
September 2009
Roman Herre

The German government's involvement in land policy is reflected through its support for technical land administration and management in more than 20 countries, while the engagement in redistributive land policies like land reform is almost non-existent.

Land Reform Policies in Belgian Official Development Assistance
September 2009
Jonas Vanreusel

For the most part of its history, the Belgian Official Development Assistance (ODA) focused on narrow agricultural productivity issues. With the slow but steady insertion of Belgian ODA into the
international development community’s priorities, instruments and methods, Belgium started to...

Land Policy Series 6
From rural livelihoods to agricultural growth
February 2009
TNI
 Lies Craeynest

This paper examines the policies and practices on land of the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom. After a market-led approach to land distribution in the 1980s, DFID made some changes towards a rights-based land policy, but this has since regressed.

Land Policy Series 4
EU Land Policy and the Right to Food
December 2008
TNI
 Pascal Bergeret

In 2004 the EU Commission published EU Land Policy Guide-lines: Guidelines for Support to Land Policy Design and Land Policy Reform Process in Developing Countries. It proposes that steps be taken to allow the legal recognition of customary rights and to strengthen the institutional capacities...

Land Policy Series 3
Territorial restructuring and the grounding of agrarian reform:
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November 2008
Eric Holt-Giménez

In this study of the World Bank's role in Guatemala, Eric Holt-Giménez shows how its programme for market-led land reform there complements its strategy for opening the Western Highlands to extractive industries.

Land Policy Series 2
The FAO and its work on land policy and agrarian reform
September 2008
TNI
 Sofia Monsalve Suárez

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has a long history of work in the field of land policy and agrarian reform, playing a lead role in international co-operation from its founding up until the 1970s. From the 1990s on, the initiative in the design and development of land...

Land Policy Series 1
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