Submitted by Rosivalda Pereira (mrs.pereira@ufma.br) on 2017-05-23T21:11:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DionatanSilvaCarvalho.pdf: 8223913 bytes, checksum: 3132ef4489dd3eebcae83ddcc234844a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-23T21:11:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DionatanSilvaCarvalho.pdf: 8223913 bytes, checksum: 3132ef4489dd3eebcae83ddcc234844a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-02-07 / This work aims overall to study the rural poverty in Maranhão and specific objectives, measure and distinguish the specificities of poverty extreme in rural areas. For this, we sought to initially understand better the ways measuring poverty in major theoretical approaches that deal with this subject, showing the contributions, the differences and the problems that each of the methodologies involve. Given the theoretical framework, we adopted the monetary approach as model for identifying the poor. Based on this, made himself holistic analysis of poverty in the state, comparing the relationship between economic performance and poverty and then made up the interrelations between production structure and rural poverty. As results, saw up that Maranhão has the highest poverty rates in the country. We noted also that there was a big improvement between 2000 and 2010, but this improvement bears little relationship to the state's economic performance. / Este trabalho tem como objetivo geral estudar a pobreza rural no Maranhão e, como objetivos específicos, dimensionar e distinguir as especificidades da pobreza extrema na zona rural. Para isso, buscou-se inicialmente compreender melhor as formas de mensuração da pobreza nas principais abordagens teóricas que tratam deste assunto, mostrando as contribuições, as diferenças e os problemas que cada uma das metodologias envolve. Diante do referencial teórico, adotou-se a abordagem monetária como modelo de identificação dos pobres. Com esta, fez-se uma análise holística da pobreza no Estado, comparando as relações entre desempenho econômico e pobreza e, posteriormente fez-se as inter-relações entre a estrutura produtiva e a pobreza rural. Como resultado, viu-se que o Maranhão apresenta os mais elevados índices de pobreza do país. Constata-se ainda que houve uma grande melhoria entre os anos 2000 e 2010, mas que essa melhoria guarda pouca relação com o desempenho econômico do Estado.

Submitted by Jorge Silva (jorgelmsilva@ufrrj.br) on 2016-10-14T17:51:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015 - Sandra Aparecida Kitakawa Lima.pdf: 2432759 bytes, checksum: 507c18959779e5fc9eea3cc4761ef0f3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-14T17:51:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015 - Sandra Aparecida Kitakawa Lima.pdf: 2432759 bytes, checksum: 507c18959779e5fc9eea3cc4761ef0f3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-21 / CNPq / Based on the survey conducted in a rural settlement field research of agrarian reform and ?quilombo? community in the municipality of Camamu - Bahia, we initially follow the emergence of claims and justification of the residents themselves in situations of disputes and uncertainties facing the government, or rather, the needs and difficulties, which they configured in collective issues being publicly exposed and problematize in public scenes. From two different contexts, we try to understand how the actors obtained (or not) the attention and public responses and the different moralities driven to justify their actions and attitudes towards each other, to build speeches about their feelings of justice or even to guide their performances. Although they were visible and recognized to some extent by the state and its institutions that did not mean that their unique problems were addressed and resolved by public "prioritiy" actions directed to agrarian reform beneficiary public and quilombo communities. On the contrary, they faced with enormous difficulties of enforcement of legal provisions and public policies to their particularities, in addition to multiple costs derived of the claims that, in principle, are rights defined by the Constitution. Thus, the conformation of collective life in daily life, which rests on different concrete practices conducted by a multiplicity of logic and feelings, which allows a "common citizen" to be set up as a "subject of law". / Com base na pesquisa de campo realizada em um assentamento rural de reforma agr?ria e uma comunidade quilombola, no munic?pio de Camamu ? Bahia, acompanhamos inicialmente a emerg?ncia das reivindica??es e justificativas dos pr?prios moradores frente a situa??es de disputas e incertezas na rela??o com o poder p?blico, ou melhor, das necessidades e dificuldades, que se configuravam em quest?es coletivas sendo expostas e problematizadas nas cenas p?blicas. A partir de dois contextos distintos, buscamos compreender de que forma os atores captavam (ou n?o) a aten??o e respostas p?blicas aos problemas vivenciados, bem como as diferentes moralidades acionadas a fim de justificar suas a??es e atitudes face ao outro, de construir discursos sobre seus sentimentos de justi?a ou mesmo de guiar suas performances. Embora fossem vis?veis e reconhecidos, em certa medida, pelo Estado e suas institui??es, isso n?o significava que seus problemas singulares fossem tratados e solucionados por a??es p?blicas ?priorit?rias? direcionadas aos p?blicos de reforma agr?ria e comunidades quilombolas. Ao contr?rio, defrontavam-se com enormes dificuldades de efetiva??o dos dispositivos legais e das pol?ticas p?blicas direcionadas ?s suas particularidades, al?m dos m?ltiplos custos decorrentes das reivindica??es que, a princ?pio, s?o direitos definidos pela Constitui??o Federal. Assim, a conforma??o da vida coletiva no cotidiano, a qual se repousa em diferentes pr?ticas concretas conduzidas por uma multiplicidade de l?gicas e sentimentos, que permite um ?cidad?o comum? se configurar como um ?sujeito de direito?

This thesis has three self-contained articles. Economic growth and trade in human capital: A salient empirical pattern in the East Asian “miracle” is a large increase in output and factor accumulation despite  only a modest increase in TFP. I develop and calibrate a model of growth and catch-up to provide a possible explanation. A novel element of the model is a globalized education market allowing human capital transfer from frontier to developing economies – an assumption motivated by the experience of countries like Korea and Taiwan where domestic universities employed graduates of Western universities to provide advanced training. The political economy of urban bias in dictatorial regimes. In many developing countries, public resource allocation is often biased against the rural population – a policy that hurts the vast majority of the poor living in rural areas. This paper develops a dynamic political economy model of urban bias in a dictatorial regime. A novel result of the model is that urban bias can emerge in predominantly agrarian economies even if there is no bias  in political power toward urban residents. The empirical evidence from a recently compiled country-level panel dataset on agricultural taxes/subsidies is consistent with the prediction of the model. Does agricultural growth cause manufacturing growth? Empirically assessing the impact of agricultural growth on manufacturing growth is challenging because of endogeneity concerns. This paper attempts to circumvent the identification challenge by using weather variations to instrument for agricultural growth. The IV estimations show that agricultural growth has a significant positive impact on manufacturing growth, and it is larger than the OLS estimates. I discuss the empirical implications for agricultural policies, efficiency of the manufacturing sector, and for the role of agricultural growth in Africa's industrialization.

In the State of Sergipe, the modernization processes were always accompanied of several outlines of local development, implementing rural programs that they manifested a mixture productivity and assisting, counting with the loans with BIRD - I Support World and administered by PRONESE - Company of Maintainable Development of State of Sergipe, along the years. That pattern of local or community development direct to the called small rural producers, management in a centralized way, seems to culminate today in a crisis of alarming proportions. It persists the extreme poverty in the rural way, the hunger, the unemployment, the inequality, the aggressions to the environment, the social exclusion, with loss of cultural identity. This study has for objective to analyze the process of the changes in the Economic, Social dimensions and you Set, in the municipal district of Porto of the Leaf, current of the recruiting and operacionalization of the productive, social subprojetos and of infrastructure, originating from of the Program of Reduction of the Rural Poverty - PRPR, administered by PRONESE. Based on the theoretical presuppositions, this study it based in the paradigm phenomenon and he had a focus in the perception and apprehension of the reality built through the social ´´ actors´ perspective involved in the process of the Program of Reduction of the Rural Poverty - PRPR of the municipal district of Porto of the Leaf. Thirty and an interviews were accomplished with the Presidents of Community Associations, in several towns of the municipal district. Amongst the results can stand out besides the white public´s disinformation with relationship to the procedures for acquisition of financings close to PRONESE, the absence of effective attendance to the Associations and the Council, in face of the extinction of the Agents of Change and of the Municipal Fund of Community Support - Fumac-p, as well as the moroseness in the tramitação process and approval of requested Subprojetos, getting to delay in some cases, up to 10 years. Through the analysis of the indicators of this study, it was observed that the Economic, Social actings and you Set current of the program, in the municipal district of Porto da Folha, non did´not get a favorable evaluation and, besides, the articulation process between the Associations and Council with the Power local Public and with PRONESE, it doesn´t come being worked in an effective way, in the promotion of the local maintainable development. / No Estado de Sergipe, os processos de modernização sempre estiveram acompanhados de diversos esquemas de desenvolvimento local, implementando programas rurais que manifestaram uma mistura produtivista e assistencialista, contando com os empréstimos firmados com o BIRD - Banco Mundial e administrados pela PRONESE - Empresa de Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Estado de Sergipe, ao longo dos anos. Esse padrão de desenvolvimento local ou comunitário dirigido aos chamados pequenos produtores rurais, gerenciado de forma centralizada, parece culminar hoje numa crise de proporções alarmantes. Persiste a pobreza extrema no meio rural, a fome, o desemprego, a desigualdade, as agressões ao meio ambiente, a exclusão social, com perda de identidade cultural. Este estudo tem por objetivo analisar o processo das mudanças nas dimensões Econômicas, Sociais e Ambientais, no município de Porto da Folha, decorrentes da contratação e operacionalização dos subprojetos produtivos, sociais e de infra-estrutura, oriundos do Programa de Redução da Pobreza Rural - PRPR, administrado pela PRONESE. Baseado nos pressupostos teóricos, este estudo se fundamentou no paradigma fenomenológico e teve um enfoque na percepção e apreensão da realidade construída através da perspectiva dos ´atores sociais´ envolvidos no processo do Programa de Redução da Pobreza Rural - PRPR do município de Porto da Folha. Foram realizadas trinta e uma entrevistas com os Presidentes de Associações Comunitárias, em diversos povoados do município. Dentre os resultados pode-se destacar além da desinformação do público alvo quanto aos procedimentos para aquisição de financiamentos junto a PRONESE, a ausência de assistência efetiva às Associações e ao Conselho, em face da extinção dos Agentes de Mudança e do Fundo Municipal de Apoio Comunitário - Fumac-p, bem como a morosidade no processo de tramitação e aprovação dos Subprojetos solicitados, chegando a demorar em alguns casos, até 10 anos. Através da análise dos indicadores deste estudo, observou-se que os desempenhos Econômicos, Sociais e Ambientais decorrentes do programa, no município de Porto da Folha, não auferiu uma avaliação favorável e, além disso, o processo de articulação entre as Associações e Conselho com o Poder Público local e com a PRONESE, não vem sendo trabalhado de forma efetiva, na promoção do desenvolvimento sustentável local.

This study sought to identify the program's legacy of Promoting the Rural productive activities while PBSM to component that it proposes and the reality of families involved, from your execution context in RS between 2012 and 2014. Sought to respond to questions about the capacity of this public policy complementary to the Family allowance program (door), in driving the families involved to overcome the condition of extreme rural poverty. For its realization rescued if the existing theoretical synthesis about the phenomenon of poverty, its causes and taking into account the aggravation of your naturalization which helps to understand the invisibility, indifference and prejudice directed at populations excluded in Brazil, so uneven that if equal says. Taking as reference, the Diagnostics prepared with families who have joined the program it was possible to meet the face of the extreme rural poverty in RS. With the foot in this complex reality and with reference to the interpretive approach to public policy analysis identified the perception of the professionals involved in implementing the program as well as the results of the evaluation conducted by the executing agency. As the final step of the survey interviewed families and social subjects who participated directly or indirectly from the program in one of the poorest municipalities in the State. Because of this study identified that the program has reached those most excluded from rural families Gaucho, supporting them in their productive projects and the expansion of its assets that positively affected the food security of families with income generation as possible in each reality. Additionally focused positively on women's autonomy, sociability, and relations of these families and in the expansion of citizenship, not that necessary, that possible in the face of centuries of exclusion. When draft scope of this limits public policy front to manifest dreams of these families, you have to consider your achievements in just two years of implementation and its potential before qualifying the demand continuity and universalization in perspective of socio-political signs in dispute for overcoming the structural causes of poverty or not. / Este trabalho procurou identificar o legado do programa de Fomento as Atividades Produtivas Rurais enquanto componente do PBSM, frente ao que este se propõe e a realidade das famílias envolvidas, a partir de seu contexto de execução no RS entre 2012 e 2014. Procurou responder ao questionamento sobre a capacidade desta política pública complementar ao Programa Bolsa Família (porta de saída), em conduzir as famílias envolvidas à superação da condição de extrema pobreza rural. Para a sua realização resgatou-se a síntese teórica existente sobre o fenômeno da pobreza, sua dimensão e causas levando em conta o filtro de agravamento da sua naturalização que auxilia a compreender a invisibilidade, a indiferença e o preconceito dirigido às populações excluídas no Brasil, tão desigual que se diz igualitário. Tomando como referência os diagnósticos elaborados com as famílias que aderiram ao Programa de Fomento foi possível conhecer a face da extrema pobreza rural no RS. Com o pé nesta complexa realidade e tendo como referência a abordagem interpretativa de análise de políticas públicas identificou-se a percepção dos profissionais envolvidos na execução do programa, bem como os resultados da avaliação realizada pela entidade executora. Como etapa final da pesquisa entrevistou-se famílias e sujeitos sociais que participaram direta ou indiretamente do Programa de Fomento em um dos municípios mais pobres do Estado. Como resultado principal deste estudo identificou-se que o Programa de Fomento chegou àquelas famílias mais excluídas do meio rural gaúcho, apoiando-as em seus projetos produtivos e na ampliação de seus ativos que impactaram positivamente a segurança alimentar das famílias com geração de renda possível em cada realidade. Adicionalmente incidiu positivamente sobre a autonomia das mulheres, sociabilidade, relações destas famílias e, na ampliação da cidadania, não aquela necessária, mais aquela possível em face de séculos de exclusão. Ao se delinearem limites de alcance desta política pública frente aos sonhos manifestos destas famílias, há que se considerar seus feitos em apenas dois anos de execução e, seu potencial de qualificação ante a demanda de continuidade e universalização na perspectiva de sinalização sociopolítica em disputa para superação das causas estruturais da pobreza ou não.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work / Gerad D. Middendorf / Food insecurity poses an enormous challenge and is a matter of extreme urgency for The Gambia, where more than half of the population lives below the poverty line. Although extensive research confirms the problems of food insecurity in Africa, no research has concurrently advanced a bottom-up and top-down neo-endogenous theoretical framework to explore 1) the dynamics of food insecurity in The Gambia and 2) the extent to which measures used to combat it have had a positive impact. The current research aims to fill this gap by employing concurrent triangulation (mixed) methods that incorporate primary and secondary data sources. As envisaged by the neo-endogenous approach, structured interviews with participants in the weekly rural markets/ Lumo(s), underscore the crucial role this indigenous marketing system plays. This marketing system embeds socioeconomic activities in rural territories through the utilization of social and cultural capital that reduce transaction costs involved in direct marketing. Consequently this initiative increases Wassu community’s access to food and stabilizes the food supply. The results also reveal moderate effects of various interventions, particularly in the Western and North Bank divisions, where agricultural production of various crops and livestock has improved the livelihood of those rural communities. At the local level, the allocation of a greater proportion of arable land to coarse grain production along with the decline in peanut production hold great promise for reducing the problem of food insecurity. Although food insecurity still prevails in much of rural Gambia as indicated by the scale of stunting among children under age five, measures are being taken to address the problem. Combined with intervention projects and other developmental effects, the potential for the Lumo(s) to reverse food insecurity in the country is great, contingent upon the central government and international lending agencies’ devolution of significant powers and transfer of funds directly to rural territories.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:13:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2008 Marie Therese Yaba Ndiaye.pdf: 7814625 bytes, checksum: d4eab4a0a17148cd52fe0a71238c8c15 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-21 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / In 1998 Senegal passed laws that transferred authority over the management of forests to local communities. This dissertation studies the impact of this decentralization on the health of the Samba Dia and Sambande forests and the livelihoods of forest-dependent populations. I use this analysis to reflect on the broader question of the impact of decentralization on conservation and poverty alleviation. I employ temporal and spatial modes of comparison in this study with qualitative research methods. Decentalization has contained forest degradation in both areas. But while people in Samband? forest report benefits to all from the forest, in Keur Samba Dia members of one village report benefits while others decry a reduction in their benefits from the forest. I argue that the transfer of authority from a largely absent and incapable state to well-organized and knowledgeable local communities account for the containment of environmental degradation in both forests. But while the uniform use of the forest by community members has helped people in Samband? solve distributive conflicts and so universally benefit from the forest, a significant divergence in how the two villages in Keur Samba Dia exploit the forest has worsened distributive conflicts allowing the more powerful people of Yayem to benefit more but exclude the less powerful people of Samba Diallo from these new benefits. The impact of decentralization on poverty alleviation and forest health is mediated by important local factors and we should not expect it to have good effects in all areas in which it is pursued. / A descentraliza??o florestal no Senegal constitui o tema desta pesquisa. Em 1998, o Senegal promoveu novas leis florestais que transferiam as compet?ncias de gest?o das florestas para as comunidades rurais, para frear a pobreza e a degrada??o ambiental. Neste contexto, a tese investiga os impactos destas reformas nas vidas das popula??es e nas florestas. A tese tentou lidar com as duas perguntas, se ap?s a descentraliza??o: - as popula??es locais seriam capazes de manejar efetivemente as florestas e o manejo florestal comunit?rio participaria na redu??o da pobreza rural. Fiz um estudo com varia??o espacial e temporal, comparando duas florestas: Keur Samba Dia e Samband? durante dois per?odos diferentes: antes e ap?s a descentraliza??o. Antes de 1998, a gest?o das duas florestas estava sob a responsabilidade do Servi?o Florestal Nacional. Depois de 1998, as comunidades rurais se tornaram as novas autoridades na floresta Samband? enquanto que a floresta Keur Samba Dia permaneceu sob um sistema de co-manejo entre as comunidades rurais e o Estado. A pesquisa deparou com o fato de que, em ambas as florestas, os impactos ecol?gicos da descentraliza??o foram positivos, pois houve uma regenera??o florestal. Todavia, os impactos econ?micos resultantes da descentraliza??o, foram diferentes de uma floresta para outra. Na floresta de Samband?, todos os vilarejos foram beneficiados pela descentraliza??o, enquanto que na floresta de Keur Samba Dia, um vilarejo se sentiu mais prejudicado do que o outro. Estes resultados nos informam, que a participa??o popular foi ben?fica ? sa?de das florestas, mas n?o foi suficiente para que as popula??es se aproveitassem economicamente de uma floresta regenerada. A distribui??o eq?itativa, dos benef?cios econ?micos da descentraliza??o, ? mediada pela uniformidade ou formas conflituosos do uso florestal e por fatores s?cio - hist?ricos.

Résumé Considérée par la Vision 2020 du Rwanda comme premier moteur de croissance économique et de réduction de la pauvreté, lagriculture rwandaise se prépare à rentrer dans une phase de mutations profondes de transformation et de modernisation de ses systèmes de production de subsistance pour souvrir au marché. Pour passer dune agriculture de subsistance à une agriculture commerciale, beaucoup denjeux et de contraintes du secteur agricole, variant et ne se faisant pas sentir avec la même acuité, dune région à une autre, méritent dêtre identifiés et analysés avant de passer à laction. Pour appréhender le sujet une étude documentaire détaillée a été réalisée sur la zone et sur le contexte agricole rwandais en général suivie dune série denquêtes sur terrain. Celles-ci reposent sur un échantillonnage raisonné de 4 secteurs (deux de basse altitude et deux de haute altitude) représentatifs de la diversité agro-bioclimatique et socioéconomique de la région dans chacun des deux districts de la zone de GIKONGORO. Tenant compte du nombre dunités de production présentes dans chaque secteur, les ménages ont été aléatoirement choisis dans les 8 secteurs retenus de manière à atteindre un effectif de 210 unités de production, pour recueillir leurs opinions sur les contraintes rencontrées, leurs stratégies de production et leurs desiderata en lien avec ce que les services agricoles conduisaient. Les problèmes relevés sont nettement complexes et semblent avoir pour facteur-racine la rupture de léquilibre « ressources naturelles/population », principal risque pour la croissance économique à long terme et la lutte contre la pauvreté. Le premier constat de cette étude est que les mutations démographiques, économiques, sociales ou culturelles qui ont affecté, depuis des décennies la zone de GIKONGORO, nont pas pu parallèlement, induire une dynamique organisationnelle qui se traduirait aussi par le développement et le renforcement des capacités des paysans et des organisations interpellées par les nouveaux enjeux du développement rural. Sur le plan agronomique, la principale contrainte sur laquelle convergent toutes les préoccupations des agriculteurs, est celui dun appauvrissement critique des sols. Celui-ci est principalement dû à une surexploitation des terres liée aux faibles superficies disponibles, aux difficultés dextension des terres de culture et à lincapacité des agriculteurs qui, faute de moyens, ne peuvent restituer au sol ce que les cultures exportent. Les pâturages naturels nétant plus disponibles en plus de la faible production fourragère dans la zone, la taille des troupeaux a sensiblement diminué et la production du fumier est faible. Sur des sols naturellement pauvres, érodés et très acides de GIKONGORO, le facteur limitant de la production agricole est avant tout la quantité de la fumure organique disponible sans laquelle tout investissement dans lamélioration de la fertilité des terres ne constitue quun gaspillage économique. Sur le plan de fonctionnement socioéconomique, les résultats de ce travail révèlent que 39% des exploitations sont très pauvres, procurent des revenus relativement inférieurs au seuil de reproduction et au seuil de survie pour certaines dentre elles et présentent une tendance générale à la régression. Evaluées à 47%, les exploitations à dominance agriculture procurent des revenus légèrement supérieurs au seuil de reproduction et montrent une tendance à la stagnation et se reproduisent à lidentique. Seulement 14% des exploitations de GIKONGORO sont en développement. Soutenues par des ressources extérieurs, elles produisent des revenus nettement supérieurs au seuil daccumulation. Elles ont des capacités dinvestissement relativement importantes et présentent une tendance générale à lélargissement.

<p>The challenge of alleviating poverty, especially of the rural poor, is a universal one. Mozambique is also faced with this challenge as well the challenge of redressing the inequality exacerbated by civil war. Among the many strategies suggested for addressing poverty is improving poor people&rsquo / s access to land. In Mozambique, all land is owned by the state, yet informal land markets do exist. A theoretical review of the models on informal markets in developing countries reveals that economy of rural family depend greatly on land resources, and that often formalisation of land markets leads to land concentration and speculation rather than to the promotion of economic development. The overall objective of the study was to analyse the economic, institutional and social dynamics and determinants of informal land markets in rural Mozambique and how they impact on the livelihoods of poor people. Due to the largely unexplored nature of the topic, this study is exploratory and descriptive in nature. Research methods included a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. To achieve these objectives, a strategy comprising two approaches was used. Firstly, a theoretical review was undertaken, to discuss both international and African debate on informal land markets models with regard to different views on Mozambican informal land markets. This theoretical review also covered the political economy of land in Mozambique. Secondly, empirical evidence was systematized in the form of a case study of the perceptions of determinants on informal land markets that was undertaken in Mogovolas district. The lack of clear policy regarding the informal land market in Mozambique produced a complex range of problems, between local people, between locals and new investors, between new investors, and between all these groups and the state. The large majority of smaller localised conflicts were, and continue to be, resolved by traditional authorities and local social-control mechanisms. Conflicts between local people and investors have proved much more complex. The role of the state has been unclear from the start and the state is still dysfunctional due to a lack of transparency, inefficiency, and corruption in management of land.</p>

<p>The challenge of alleviating poverty, especially of the rural poor, is a universal one. Mozambique is also faced with this challenge as well the challenge of redressing the inequality exacerbated by civil war. Among the many strategies suggested for addressing poverty is improving poor people&rsquo / s access to land. In Mozambique, all land is owned by the state, yet informal land markets do exist. A theoretical review of the models on informal markets in developing countries reveals that economy of rural family depend greatly on land resources, and that often formalisation of land markets leads to land concentration and speculation rather than to the promotion of economic development. The overall objective of the study was to analyse the economic, institutional and social dynamics and determinants of informal land markets in rural Mozambique and how they impact on the livelihoods of poor people. Due to the largely unexplored nature of the topic, this study is exploratory and descriptive in nature. Research methods included a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. To achieve these objectives, a strategy comprising two approaches was used. Firstly, a theoretical review was undertaken, to discuss both international and African debate on informal land markets models with regard to different views on Mozambican informal land markets. This theoretical review also covered the political economy of land in Mozambique. Secondly, empirical evidence was systematized in the form of a case study of the perceptions of determinants on informal land markets that was undertaken in Mogovolas district. The lack of clear policy regarding the informal land market in Mozambique produced a complex range of problems, between local people, between locals and new investors, between new investors, and between all these groups and the state. The large majority of smaller localised conflicts were, and continue to be, resolved by traditional authorities and local social-control mechanisms. Conflicts between local people and investors have proved much more complex. The role of the state has been unclear from the start and the state is still dysfunctional due to a lack of transparency, inefficiency, and corruption in management of land.</p>