The value of rural land in Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand increased sharply when people were given title deeds, because owners were more willing to invest.
With one of the highest rates of income inequality in the world, the result, in large part, of a rural, cashless subsistence economy, land reform is one of Namibia's most hotly contested issues.
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When the Mexican revolution began in 1910, some 2, 000 families owned 87% of the rural land.
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We got together last year to think how we could help rural communities of all three faiths in the land we all consider holy.
Otherwise there will be no chance of the many reforms required outside the forestry sector: in land-use planning and rural development, in agriculture, energy and infrastructure policies, and much else.
Until recently, the woes of the traditional family farms in the south, combined with the shift to huge, mechanised estates in the cerrado, had prompted an increase in rural unemployment, and land invasions.
Lawmakers are still sharply divided, with the rural lobby in Congress demanding more protection for farmers who have cleared land and environmentalists accusing the government of repealing landmark laws.
But Mr Mugabe continues, in his speeches, to promise to seize land without compensation, for the rural poor.
In Chongqing only 10% of the government's annual sales of undeveloped rural land are subject to the dipiao system.
Most of this feeds demand for gold jewellery in rural India, where the only other investment options are bank deposits and land.
Hazardous-waste facilities have to go somewhere, and buying 976 acres (the size of Arrowhead) of vacant land is easier and cheaper in rural Alabama than it would be in a tony district of Birmingham.
It would help if farmers could sell or mortgage their rural land and use the money to help gain a stronger foothold in the cities.
The bill proposes a compensation of four times the market value for people who give up their land for industrial and infrastructure projects in rural India.
The vaccines are picked up each month by the ten-member Pemba staff of VillageReach, which, in four Toyota Land Cruiser trucks, distributes them in temperature-controlled containers to rural clinics around the province.
De-emphasizing costly issues of supply, the program is focusing on three logistical bottlenecks: huge gaps in land law that make it impossible to guarantee investments, lack of information technology in the rural areas that make coordination and transport impossible, and the energy poverty of these same areas.
The school bus is the big yellow kind, exactly the same as the one Liz once rode to elementary school, in that faraway place, that faraway land known as rural Ohio.
According to the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), these land-owners will not be paid for taking part in the experiment.
But across Catalonia, even in the smallest, most rural towns, you can find farmers, home cooks and professional chefs all drawing inspiration from the land, just as Adria did.
Years ago I used to write a lot more frequently on cars, and have pushed Aston Martins over 180mph on their test track in England, driven Land Rovers off-road across Utah and the Scottish Highlands, ripped a Panoz Esperante through the rural Georgia countryside, and slid more pedestrian models around icy tracks in Colorado.
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