Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction : Insights from Africa and Asia.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (450 pages)
Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Part I: Introduction and Conceptual Framework -- 1. Introduction and Overview -- 2. Property Rights and Collective Action for Poverty Reduction: A Framework for Analysis -- Part II: Risk Management and Market Access -- 3. Burial Societies in Rural Ethiopia -- 4. Shocks, Groups, and Networks in Bukidnon, the Philippines -- 5. Rural Institutions and Imperfect Agricultural Markets in Africa: Experiences from Producer Marketing Groups in Kenya -- Part III: Natural Resource Management -- 6. Community Watershed Management in Semiarid India: The State of Collective Action and Its Effects on Natural Resources and Rural Livelihoods -- 7. Enabling Equitable Collective Action and Policy Change for Poverty Reduction and Improved Natural Resource Management in the Eastern African Highlands -- 8. The Role of Collective Action in Securing Property Rights for the Poor: A Case Study in Jambi Province, Indonesia -- 9. The Transformation of the Afar Commons in Ethiopia: State Coercion, Diversification, and Property Rights Change among Pastoralists -- 10. Unmaking the Commons: Collective Action, Property Rights, and Resource Appropriation among (Agro-)Pastoralists in Eastern Ethiopia -- 11. Escaping Poverty Traps? Collective Action and Property Rights in Postwar Rural Cambodia -- Part IV: Synthesis and Conclusions -- 12. Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction: A Synthesis -- 13. Conclusions and Implications for Policy, Practice, and Research -- Contributors -- Index.
This volume examines how collective bargaining and property rights, separately and together, influence the well-being of the rural poor in Africa and Asia and how they can be strengthened to improve livelihoods.
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Poverty -- Africa. Right of property -- Economic aspects -- Africa. Community organization -- Economic aspects -- Africa. Poverty -- Asia. Right of property -- Economic aspects -- Asia. Community organization -- Economic aspects -- Asia.