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Showing items 1 through 9 of 48.A lot of aspects are commonly subsumed under the concept land reform. These range from redistribution to tenure and agrarian reform. What do these different concepts mean? Agrarian reform: this is the broadest term and refers to attempts to change the agrarian structure of a country.
There has been rapid growth in urban populations in Namibia (Pendleton et al, 2014). This growth is amongst predominantly amongst less educated, poorer migrants from rural areas in search of opportunities in urban areas.
Ancestral land refers to ‘land of ancestors’. That is the land occupied by ones’ forebearers for generations and left something behind of value for current and future generations. There are usually contestations as to which ancestors the land
Communal land is one of the land tenure systems in Namibia, the other being freehold land tenure system.
Documento presentado en el 6° Encuentro Internacional por la tierra y territorio, Marabá, Brasil, Noviembre de 2018
A partir de un documento colonial referido a un litigio de tierras en la comunidad de Palcadurante el siglo XVII,2 Rossana Barragán (1982) analiza el nacimiento de la hacienda enPalca, su composición demográfica y las transformaciones en torno al acceso vertical por parte de su población.
ASODESCO es una organización con una década de antigüedad que agrupó en sus inicios a un conjunto de 21 familias organizadas con el objetivo de mejorar sus formas deproducción hacia un modelo sostenible y amigable con el ambiente.
El caso de la Comunidad Indígena Pueblo Kolla Tinkunaku puede caracterizarse como un proceso de lucha encabezado por familias kolla que han logrado la titulación de una parte importante de su territorio (alrededor de 100.000 hectáreas) bajo la forma de propiedadcomunitaria.
include a trajectory of Namibia’s socio-spatial development for the reader to engage with my work. The term ‘socio-spatial’ is to stress the spatial dimension within social processes. To have simply left the term ‘spatial’ would have missed the point of spatial production as a social process. In