Contest For Land In Madagascar

Author : Sandra Evers,Gwyn Campbell,Michael Lambek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004256231

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Contest for Land in Madagascar by Sandra Evers,Gwyn Campbell,Michael Lambek Pdf

The Malagasy possess a profound religious, socio-political and economic attachment to land which connects individuals and kinship groups with the ancestors. International stakeholders value Madagascar for its biodiversity, minerals and agricultural potential, while the Malagasy state views land as the necessary platform for its economic development. This collection presents original research by established and rising scholars across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including Human Genetics, Anthropology and History. Authors focus on land as the pivotal factor underlying the economic, social and religious structures of Malagasy society and its relationship with outsiders, aiming to provide new insights into the issues underlying Madagascar’s ongoing economic and political malaise.

Author : Alison Jolly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783603190

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Thank You, Madagascar by Alison Jolly Pdf

'An enchanting book...poignant and passionate.' Geographical 'A captivating and absorbing account.' Sir David Attenborough Madagascar is one of the world's natural jewels, with over ninety per cent of its wildlife found nowhere else on Earth. Few people knew it better than the pioneering primatologist and conservationist, Alison Jolly. Thank You, Madagascar is her eyewitness account of the extraordinary biodiversity of the island, and the environment of its people. At the book's heart is a conflict between three different views of nature. Is the extraordinary forest treasure-house of Madagascar a heritage for the entire world? Is it a legacy of the forest dwellers' ancestors, bequeathed to serve the needs of their living descendants? Or is it an economic resource to be pillaged for short-term gain and to be preserved only to deliver benefits for those with political power? Exploring and questioning these different views, this is a beautifully written diary and a tribute to Madagascar.

Author : Alison Richard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226817576

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The Sloth Lemur's Song by Alison Richard Pdf

A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island. Madagascar is a place of change. A biodiversity hotspot and the fourth largest island on the planet, it has been home to a spectacular parade of animals, from giant flightless birds and giant tortoises on the ground to agile lemurs leaping through the treetops. Some species live on; many have vanished in the distant or recent past. Over vast stretches of time, Madagascar’s forests have expanded and contracted in response to shifting climates, and the hand of people is clear in changes during the last thousand years or so. Today, Madagascar is a microcosm of global trends. What happens there in the decades ahead can, perhaps, suggest ways to help turn the tide on the environmental crisis now sweeping the world. The Sloth Lemur’s Song is a far-reaching account of Madagascar’s past and present, led by an expert guide who has immersed herself in research and conservation activities with village communities on the island for nearly fifty years. Alison Richard accompanies the reader on a journey through space and time—from Madagascar’s ancient origins as a landlocked region of Gondwana and its emergence as an island to the modern-day developments that make the survival of its array of plants and animals increasingly uncertain. Weaving together scientific evidence with Richard’s own experiences and exploring the power of stories to shape our understanding of events, this book captures the magic as well as the tensions that swirl around this island nation.

Author : Richard R. Marcus
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739181614

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The Politics of Institutional Failure in Madagascar's Third Republic by Richard R. Marcus Pdf

Madagascar’s constitution of August 19, 1992 brought hope to a population exhausted by economic failures associated with a failed experiment in scientific socialism and years of mismanagement. The repetition of transparent elections and the promulgation of “good governance” in the years that followed appeared to serve as an indicator of institutional strengthening and, by extension, progress. Unfortunately, a broader institutional analysis points toward a series of shocks to the political system by way of legal, but highly detrimental, juridical and constitutional shifts to the system. These shocks were meant to serve particularized political networks with long clientalistic roots and were made possible by the narrow vision of institutionalism that did not take careful stock of those networks or the leaders at the top of them. Little effort was made to look beyond a legislature brought in by careful elections but producing legislation serving individuals, the ways in which inchoate political parties distort institutional outcomes and the potential for institutionalization, the weakness of civil society to offer opportunities for popular engagement, or the use of donor-funded decentralization programs to build ministries that served as powerful and rapid proxies for leadership centralization. By the time the celebrated president, Marc Ravalomanana, was overthrown in March 2009 it became clear that there were few opportunities to seed political opposition and such limited space between individual leaders and primary institutions of public management that critical state functions immediately began to unravel. In this book the author considers the institutions of the Third Republic, how they formed, and why they looked like models for democratic change before turning to consider how the institutions themselves have been manipulated in plain sight by leaders looking to champion their own networks. He concludes that the rise of the Fourth Republic in 2010 did little to address these underlying concerns and argues that a new agenda is in order to consider not just the way in which institutions form, but the way in which networks of power, and leaders at the top of those networks, grow and change malleable institutions in young democracies with few avenues of accountability.

Author : Frederic L. Pryor,World Bank
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195208234

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Malaŵi and Madagascar by Frederic L. Pryor,World Bank Pdf

Provides a comparison of the economic systems and long-term economic policies of these two countries, in order to illustrate not only their different economic approaches to similar problems, but also to highlight general forces linking poverty, equity and growth in all developing nations.

Author : McLain, R.,Ranjatson, P.,Nomenjanahary, A.R.F,Heidenrich, T.,Rakotonirina, J.M.,Razafimbelo, N.T.R.,
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Living customary tenure systems in Madagascar: An overview by McLain, R.,Ranjatson, P.,Nomenjanahary, A.R.F,Heidenrich, T.,Rakotonirina, J.M.,Razafimbelo, N.T.R., Pdf

Author : Caroline S. Archambault,Annelies Zoomers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317658603

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Global Trends in Land Tenure Reform by Caroline S. Archambault,Annelies Zoomers Pdf

This book explores the gendered dimensions of recent land governance transformations across the globe in the wake of unprecedented pressures on land and natural resources. These complex contemporary forces are reconfiguring livelihoods and impacting women’s positions, their tenure security and well-being, and that of their families. Bringing together fourteen empirical community case studies from around the world, the book examines governance transformations of land and land-based resources resulting from four major processes of tenure change: commercial land based investments, the formalization of customary tenure, the privatization of communal lands, and post-conflict resettlement and redistribution reforms. Each contribution carefully analyses the gendered dimensions of these transformations, exploring both the gender impact of the land tenure reforms and the social and political economy within which these reforms materialize. The cases provide important insights for decision makers to better promote and design an effective gender lens into land tenure reforms and natural resource management policies. This book will be of great interest to researchers engaging with land and natural resource management issues from a wide variety of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, development studies, and political science, as well as policy makers, practitioners, and activists concerned with environment, development, and social equity.

Author : IBP, Inc.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781433031090

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Madagascar Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook Volume 1 Strategic Information, Opportunities, Contacts by IBP, Inc. Pdf

2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Madagascar Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook

Author : Adrien M. Ratsimbaharison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442272361

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The Political Crisis of March 2009 in Madagascar by Adrien M. Ratsimbaharison Pdf

Adopting a conflict approach to the study of crisis, this book analyzes the crisis of March 2009 as part of an ongoing conflict between the government and the opposition. It uncovers the causal mechanisms of the crisis and the process of crisis management and de-escalation while also explaining how a civil war was averted.

Author : McLain, R.,Ranjatson, P.,Lawry, S.,Rakotonirina, J.M.,Randrianasolo, R.,Razafimbelo, N.T.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Tenure challenges to implementing forest landscape restoration in northwestern Madagascar by McLain, R.,Ranjatson, P.,Lawry, S.,Rakotonirina, J.M.,Randrianasolo, R.,Razafimbelo, N.T. Pdf

Key messagesMadagascar has established ambitious goals for restoring its degraded forests under the Bonn Challenge; tenure rights and tenure security are likely to affect landholders’ willingness to invest in forest landscape restoration practices.In northwestern Madagascar (Boeny region), tenure challenges in three major local land categories (forests, savannas and seasonally flooded bottomlands) need to be considered; each category has particular tenure issues associated with it.The main sources of tenure insecurity for forests are: (a) the undermining of local forest management groups and (b) tensions between the Forest Service and communes over allocation rights to forested lands.In the savannas, reforestation is emerging as a way for migrants to claim land through the state, thereby bypassing traditional authorities. While tenure security is strengthened for migrants, there is a long-term risk of conflict as the area available for grazing lands and upland crops declines.In the bottomlands, women in some communities are working to obtain primary rights to land; having those rights will provide a greater incentive to plant trees since secondary rights holders are typically prohibited from doing so.Tenure varies across the different land types; these differences and their impacts on landholders’ willingness to invest in land conservation are important to understand for the implementation of forest landscape restoration.

Author : Ivan R. Scales
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136309083

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Conservation and Environmental Management in Madagascar by Ivan R. Scales Pdf

Madagascar is one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet, the result of 160 million years of isolation from the African mainland. More than 80% of its species are not found anywhere else on Earth. However, this highly diverse flora and fauna is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation, and the island has been classified as one of the world’s highest conservation priorities. Drawing on insights from geography, anthropology, sustainable development, political science and ecology, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of the status of conservation and environmental management in Madagascar. It describes how conservation organisations have been experimenting with new forms of protected areas, community-based resource management, ecotourism, and payments for ecosystem services. But the country must also deal with pressing human needs. The problems of poverty, development, environmental justice, natural resource use and biodiversity conservation are shown to be interlinked in complex ways. Authors address key questions, such as who are the winners and losers in attempts to conserve biodiversity? And what are the implications of new forms of conservation for rural livelihoods and environmental justice?

Author : Wendy Wolford,Saturnino M. Borras, Jr.,Ruth Hall,Ian Scoones,Ben White
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781118688243

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Governing Global Land Deals by Wendy Wolford,Saturnino M. Borras, Jr.,Ruth Hall,Ian Scoones,Ben White Pdf

This collection of essays in Governing Global Land Deals provides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global land grabs and processes of government and governance. Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on the relationship between large-scale land deals and processes of governance Offers new theoretical insights into the different forms and effects of global land acquisitions Illuminates both the micro-processes of transaction and expropriation, as well as the broader structural forces at play in global land deals Provides new empirical data on the different actors involved in contemporary land deals occurring across the globe and focuses on the specific institutional, political, and economic contexts in which they are acting

Author : IBP USA
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781438770376

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Madagascar Business Law Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Basic Laws by IBP USA Pdf

Madagascar Business Law Handbook - Strategic Information and Basic Laws

Author : A. Jolly,P. Oberle,R. Albignac
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483285955

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Key Environments: Madagascar by A. Jolly,P. Oberle,R. Albignac Pdf

In the forests of Madagascar, about nine-tenths of the plant and animal species are unique to the island. Their natural habitats range from true rainforest to the lunar landscape of the spiny desert, and the natural rock-gardens of the mountain tops. Madagascar is no oceanic island, but a fragment of continent a thousand miles long, wrenched loose from the side of Africa. In this Lost World, plants and animals have become a living museum of evolution. Aepornis, the largest bird which ever lived, became extinct on Madagascar in the last few hundred years. Many more Malagasy species are now following Aerpornis into extinction. This volume introduces Madagascar's unique fauna and flora to general readers - the first such handbook available in English, and the first book to combine articles by Malagasy, French, English and American scientists, writing in their own fields of expertise.

Author : Steven M. Goodman,William L. Jungers,Velizar Simeonovski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226156941

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Extinct Madagascar by Steven M. Goodman,William L. Jungers,Velizar Simeonovski Pdf

The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in and among the island’s baobab trees and thickets, a dizzying array of animals, including something approaching one hundred species of lemur. Madagascar’s mammal fauna, for example, is far more diverse, and more endemic, than early explorers and naturalists ever dreamed of. But in the past 2,500 or so years—a period associated with natural climatic shifts and ecological change, as well as partially coinciding with the arrival of the island’s first human settlers—a considerable proportion of Madagascar’s forests have disappeared; and in the wake of this loss, a number of species unique to Madagascar have vanished forever into extinction. In Extinct Madagascar, noted scientists Steven M. Goodman and William L. Jungers explore the recent past of these land animal extinctions. Beginning with an introduction to the geologic and ecological history of Madagascar that provides context for the evolution, diversification, and, in some cases, rapid decline of the Malagasy fauna, Goodman and Jungers then seek to recapture these extinct mammals in their environs. Aided in their quest by artist Velizar Simeonovski’s beautiful and haunting digital paintings—images of both individual species and ecosystem assemblages reproduced here in full color—Goodman and Jungers reconstruct the lives of these lost animals and trace their relationships to those still living. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of Simeonovski’s artwork set to open at the Field Museum, Chicago, in the fall of 2014, Goodman and Jungers’s awe-inspiring book will serve not only as a sobering reminder of the very real threat of extinction, but also as a stunning tribute to Madagascar’s biodiversity and a catalyst for further research and conservation.