This paper reports on the socio-economic livelihoods of nomadic herders and agropastoralists in the Central Province of Mongolia. A study was carried out between October and December 2005 to investigate the following; the ...

Roads, by facilitating movement of people, commodities, services and information, affect society in a multitude of ways. A single road may initiate a rural settlement's transition from a subsistence toa trade economy. A ...

When Hugo Chávez became president of Venezuela, he came with the promise to eradicate corruption and clean up politics. However, research shows that the level of corruption in Venezuela has actually risen after Chávez came ...

This study explores the extent and causes of land conflict at the local community level. It also investigates genders aspects in relation to women position in land holding, transaction and inheritance, and winners and ...

This study explores the role of politics in shaping changes and continuities in property rights regimes in rural land in Arsi Negele and Hetossa Districts (Woreda) in South-Central Oromia, Ethiopia, in historical perspective. ...

Botswana has an entrenched negative attitude that associates communal rangeland ownership and management to inefficiency and rangeland degradation. Thus a number of land reform policies that promote conversion of communally ...

There is still a great divide between men and women in the developing world, and the idea that a woman is lesser than a man is deep entrenched in the Indian culture and society even today. The traditional classification ...