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Land Reform: Land settlement and cooperatives 2001/1

Year of publication 2001

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Issues relating to land and land reform have been moving up the agenda of rural poverty and food security in recent years with the increasing acceptance that the prerequisites for broad-based and equitable development include the essential need for people to have access to land and other natural resources. Access needs to be on an equitable basis allowing the poor and the disadvantaged, including women, to secure the assets needed for them and their families to generate sustainable livelihoods. This is of course a matter of concern in the lead up to the World Food Summit: five years later that will take place in Rome in 2002.

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