Fighting an uphill battle: population pressure and declining land productivity in Rwanda
Clay describes landholding structures through which demographic change has affected the environment in Rwanda.
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Factors Behind the Recent Tragedy in Rwanda.
Olson argues that poverty, not population pressure, contributed to the massacre in Rwanda.
Population Pressure, Agricultural Productivity and Land Degradation in Rwanda: An Agenda for Collaborative Training, Research and Analysis
This working paper addresses natural resources management in an environment of population pressure, agricultural productivity, and land degradation in Rwanda.
High Resolution Population Maps for Low Income Nations: Combining Land Cover and Census in East Africa
In this paper we investigate whether satellite imagery in combination with land cover information and census data can be used to create inexpensive, high resolution and easily-updatable settlement and population distribution maps over large areas. (from Background)
Planning and development regulation amid rapid urban growth: Explaining divergent trajectories in Africa.
Comparing Uganda and Rwanda, the paper argues that divergent outcomes in urban plans, land use regulations and construction codes implementation are largely rooted in differing political bargaining environments.
Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the urban poor in Africa
The paper looks into the implications of the hazardous living conditions of the urban poor in Africa.
Promoting food security in Rwanda through sustainable agricultural productivity: Meeting the challenges of population pressure, land degradation, and poverty
The objective of this technical paper is to shed insights on ways of reversing the spiraling decline of the land and the economy in rural Rwanda, with focus on the forces behind productivity decline in the
Rwandan agricultural sector. The results are based on collaborative research between the Rwandan Ministry of Agriculture and Michigan State University. (From Foreword)
The Project on Environment, Population, and Security
This project developed several case studies -f Mexico, Gaza, Rwanda, Pakistan, South Africa - focusing on population growth, environmental degradation and conflict. The Project on Environmental Scarcities, State Capacity, and Civil Violence (1994-97) developed similar themes for China, Indonesia and India.
Land relations under unbearable stress: Rwanda caught in the Malthusian trap.
This paper reports the findings of an in-depth case study of a highly densely populated area in the Northwest of Rwanda which has been conducted during the period 1988-1993. It demonstrates that acute competition for land in a context characterized by too slow expansion of non-agricultural income opportunities has resulted in increasingly unequal land distribution and rapid processes of land dispossession through both operation of the (illegal) land market and evolution of indigenous tenure arrangements.
Demographic responses to resource constraints in Rwanda.
This paper examines two demographic processes, changing fertility rates and migration patterns, in the context of rapidly evolving circumstances in Rwanda during the past fifteen years. Various economic, social, political and environmental factors from the local to the international merged to create a situation of worsening pressure on resources in rural Rwanda.
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