Comments on: Livelihoods on the edge http://blogs.dfid.gov.uk/2009/05/livelihoods-on-the-edge/ Tales from the front line of our work to eradicate poverty worldwide. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:54:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Schadrack DUSABE http://blogs.dfid.gov.uk/2009/05/livelihoods-on-the-edge/comment-page-1/#comment-23693 Schadrack DUSABE Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:14:08 +0000 http://blogs.dfid.gov.uk/?p=1892#comment-23693 I really appreciate the initiatives aimed at improving rural livelihoods especially in Rwanda. Iam a Rwandan by nationality and live there. I am among the few who have managed to further their studies up to Master degree level. I specialized in Rural Livelihoods and global change. May be this is the good reason of my special interest to the article on this blog. Honorable Martin Reach, i do support your ideas but you better conduct research in Rwanda to see if the positive correlation between land titling , tenure security, investment on land and hence increased income opportunity holds. I am having this reserve because the banking sector which has largely gone commercial in Rwanda is still far from being convinved that even the poor farmer can have enough security to get loan and pay back especially when it comes to agriculture sector full of uncertainties and risks. Also, the process of land consolidation that the government of Rwanda is privilegying and that DFID is supporting in Rwanda is a good policy but according to me still far from being pro poor (i am referring especially to the extremely poor in this case). With land consolidation, i still believe that the tenure security will still be on paper (de jure0 but de facto the smallholder will not enjoy that right at all unless the comsolidated land is only used as a cooperative farming system. I have a full research paper in this point may be we shall share some ideas about. I know my conclusions are not irreversible that is why a debate like this is welcome on my part Best Schadrack DUSABE I really appreciate the initiatives aimed at improving rural livelihoods especially in Rwanda. Iam a Rwandan by nationality and live there. I am among the few who have managed to further their studies up to Master degree level. I specialized in Rural Livelihoods and global change. May be this is the good reason of my special interest to the article on this blog.
Honorable Martin Reach, i do support your ideas but you better conduct research in Rwanda to see if the positive correlation between land titling , tenure security, investment on land and hence increased income opportunity holds. I am having this reserve because the banking sector which has largely gone commercial in Rwanda is still far from being convinved that even the poor farmer can have enough security to get loan and pay back especially when it comes to agriculture sector full of uncertainties and risks.
Also, the process of land consolidation that the government of Rwanda is privilegying and that DFID is supporting in Rwanda is a good policy but according to me still far from being pro poor (i am referring especially to the extremely poor in this case). With land consolidation, i still believe that the tenure security will still be on paper (de jure0 but de facto the smallholder will not enjoy that right at all unless the comsolidated land is only used as a cooperative farming system. I have a full research paper in this point may be we shall share some ideas about. I know my conclusions are not irreversible that is why a debate like this is welcome on my part

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