SHAREWORLD OPEN UNIVERSITY
LILONGWE CAMPUS
FACULTY OF CONSERVATION, THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT OF RURAL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
COURSE : SOCIAL ECONOMICS OF RURAL LIVELIHOOD
CODE : ERL213 LECTURE : FRANCIS UNGAPEMBE STUDENT : GIFT KAPOTA YEAR : 2 ASSIGNMENT : Seven
QUESTION : Discuss the role of government in promoting socio-economics of rural livelihood
DUE DATE : 7 September 2013
DATE SUBMITTED: 2 September 2013
Government has a role to play in as far as promoting socio-economic for rural livelihood as the government is there for the people and it has to do anything possible for its people to
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Land reform: involves the changing of laws, regulations or customs regarding land ownership. Land reform may consist of government-initiated or government-backed property redistribution, generally of agricultural land. Land reform can, therefore, refer to transfer of ownership from the more powerful to the less powerful, such as from a relatively small number of wealthy owners with extensive land holdings such as plantations, large ranches, or agribusiness plots to individual ownership by those who work the land (Rosegrant & Hazell 2000).
Land reform may also entail the transfer of land from individual ownership even peasant ownership in smallholdings to government-owned collective farms; it has also, in other times and places, referred to the exact opposite: division of government-owned collective farms into smallholdings. For example, in Zimbabwe this process of land reform is in progress whereby the government is take land to the white and gives it to the black native Zimbabwean and the government is trying to do this to make sure that poor people do have land to cultivate hence reducing poverty since the large area of land was controlled by the whites.
Another issue is of land tenure reform which is also under the same land reform program. Land tenure is system how land is owned. It is important for the government to put policies
Thereby, it was more beneficially to produce excess crops and sell them for money so that they could pay off debts incurred by having gotten the land through government auction. Decreasing minimum land prices per acre of land encouraged speculators to buy the land and sell to the farmers with credit. In consequence, potential farmers could buy the lands in the smaller tracts appointed, rather than pay hefty prices for large amounts of forested land that could not be easily cleared quickly - and therefore not immediately entirely usable. In other words, there was more availability for the children of farmers to make their fortune on farm tracts out West.
Sharecropping - landowners allow farmers to use and farm their land in return for part of the money that they sell for their crops
In addition, selection was opposed and obstructed by the squatters who used their superior knowledge of land conditions, political and financial influence, and evasion of certain regulations of the Land Acts to amass large holdings of premium land, leaving poorer land to selectors. ... 17
the land is not required for the operation of the business, it is not recommended to transfer the
One reason cited as to why landowner’s close their lands is that the owner’s aren’t allowed to impose any rules on their land, as stated within the requirements of the MFL. Although some might try to create and enforce rules that are discriminatory or limit the public’s right to recreation on the open lands, one solution might be to allow certain rules to be made by landowners as long as these rules are deemed appropriate by the DNR or the landowner’s municipality. Other solutions could include providing more monetary incentives for open lands or further modification of the Managed Forest Law that would decrease the amount of land an MFL landowner can close to the public or making it a requirement that only one person whose name is one the deed of private land may enroll the land within the MFL
Opioid abuse, cardiometabolic diseases, and diseases of lifestyle and social fabric are few of the health problems that are predominant in the southeast region of the country. Tennessee is in the lowest 25th quartile in the overall health performance among the low-income population in the southeast region. Hence, there is a need to address specifically, socioeconomic determinants in tackling these problems. These socioeconomic determinants are usually referred to as the causes of the causes of the diseases.
When purchasing property there are steps you should take in order to determine if there is likelihood of future land resumption. If your property does become part of a land acquisition program, it is important to assert your legal
This chapter describes The Aguán Valley and land for the people, much like the people of Venezuela the people of Honduras are being treated badly because of the resources these countries have. In the beginning in of the book there was a foreword that was written by Eric Holt-Giménez. He explains what Land grabs are I would like to refer to the first page “land grabs are a means to power and control. This simple fact often lost in current debates over “large-scale land acquisitions”- is the central thesis of this book about the heroic struggle by peasants in the Aguán Valley of Honduras to keep their land in the face of the rapacious national elites bent on taking it” (Foreword). Often times, only the wealthy and the elites try to take power from the poor because more times than not, the poor do not have resources available to them like the rich.
Living in the 1800s to the 1900s and so forth there were always a vast amount of land that were still in need to be filled with life of settling families. Although, the trip to get there may be long, there were a prize to come, but also a price to pay. A place to start new. A place with beautiful landscapes. A place where it may or may not turn out how it may seem.
Being one of the most extensive law reforms of the Law Commission, Land Registration Act 2002 aims to create a flawless legal framework for land registration, especially in terms of conveyancing with emphasis on overriding interests and adverse possession. It is agreed that the Land Registration Act 2002 (hereafter LRA 2002), by putting emphasis on strict registration, moved the idea of land ownership from ownership by possession to bureaucratization of title via registration. Therefore, LRA 2002 is said to bring further strictness and clarity to land ownership and subsequent conveyancing. In conjunction, LRA 2002 was expected to bring an “e-conveyancing revolution” to land registration which was awaited to be a major success. Although steps are taken towards this development, it is claimed that there is still long way to go before a complete and problem-free e-conveyancing system. Apart from matters relating to conveyancing, LRA 2002 consists of sections regarding overriding interests where their number and scope are widely reduced with specifications of registration introduced. Moreover, the Act includes strictly drafted provisions about adverse possession, aiming to bring further restrictions to this matter by bringing further difficulties to the acquisition of title and therefore shifting from a squatter prone approach to a registered owner supporting view.
With this suburban expansion, there is a lack of agricultural land, because the available land that was normally used to farm is being bought up by developers to create new housing and communities.
In order to maintain and protect agriculture land we must enforce strict regulations from land being taken for urban sprawl. Government need to enforce laws setting aside certain areas that are designated for agricultural land. For example, Smart growth provides communities with public transit, but also it is surrounded by green space for growing food. This will help benefit the environment if people use public transit, biking or walking trails reducing air pollution. This is important in order to conserve natural areas such as farmland for growing crops, vegetables, fruit etc. We need this valuable farmland to grow food in order to live; if we keep taking land for urban sprawl our future for food security will be scarce. Another program is
The production of agricultural products in the United States is dependent on the hand labor provided by migrant agricultural workers. However, this population is at higher risk for certain chronic illnesses that must be monitored frequently. With most of them working long hours, English illiterate and living in a poor socioeconomic status, access to preventive health care services becomes very challenging. Different solutions to tackle this challenge have been proposed, including mobile clinics as well as clinics devoted to providing medical care to this population. Both still face significant barriers in delivering health care services to agricultural migrant workers (AMWs). Building upon an idea proposed at the Finding
The research in the article is based on literature over the last decade pertaining to political ecology on the rural West and its agricultural economies correlation to land mergers.
The government's move to acquire fertile agriculture lands for industry has agitated the farmers who are dependent on the lands for livelihood. Ever since the notification regarding the acquisition was published by the state revenue department on December 4 2008, the farmers to be affected have been holding meetings in Haripura, Charal, Bol and Siyawada villages and have decided to launch an agitation against the acquisition of their lands. However Government declared that it was not taking for free and the price of the land at Rs 1,200 per square