Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction : : Insights from Africa and Asia / / ed. by Esther Mwangi, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Helen Markelova.

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• MitwirkendeR: Aberra, Kassahun,; Alinyo, Francis,; Ayele, Shenkut,; Bedane, Kiflu,; Begashaw, Leulseged,; Beyene, Fekadu,; Charamila, Sarah,; Chemangeni, Awadh,; Cheptegei, William,; Colfer, Carol J. Pierce,; Dercon, Stefan,; Di Gregorio, Monica,; Gebremikael, Mesfin T.,; German, Laura,; Godquin, Marie,; Hagedorn, Konrad,; Hoddinott, John,; Hundie, Bekele,; Irawan, Deddy,; Jotte, Zewdie,; Kassie, Menale,; Kebede, Tewodros A.,; Kirk, Michael,; Komarudin, Heru,; Korf, Benedikt,; Krishnan, Pramila,; Markelova, Helen,; Mazengia, Waga,; McCarthy, Nancy,; McNiven, Scott,; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth,; Mekonnen, Ashenafi,; Muricho, Geoffrey,; Mwangi, Esther,; Neldysavrino,,; Nyangas, Simon,; Obare, Gideon,; Padmanabhan, Martina,; Quisumbing, Agnes R.,; REDDY, V. Ratna,; Shiferaw, Bekele,; Siagian, Yuliana L.,; Swallow, Brent,; Syamsuddin,,; Tanui, Joseph,; Taye, Hailemichael,; Teferi, Zenebe A.,; Tirwomwe, Wilberforce,; Tolera, Tessema,; Weingart, Anne,; Woldehanna, Tassew,; Yentirizal,,
• HerausgeberIn: Markelova, Helen,; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth,; Mwangi, Esther,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 17 illus.

To improve their well-being, the poor in developing countries have used both collective action through formal and informal groups and property rights to natural resources. Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction: Insights from Africa and Asia examines how these two types of insti...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• 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