Commons as Insurance and the Welfare Impact of Privatization

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The role of non-timber forest products in household coping strategies in South Africa: the influence of household wealth and gender (2011, background): “Despite increasing awareness of the potential role of NTFPs in helping households cope with periods of vulnerability the empirical evidence of this function, it’s prevalence and how it manifests remains case study driven and descriptive in nature ( Baland and Francois 2005; Godoy et al. 1998; McSwe”
Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda (2011, background): “…lost out as some of the positive aspects of traditional systems, e.g., their flexibility and accessibility, were reduced without bringing commensurate benefits and possibly exacerbating pre-existing conflicts (Baland and Francois 2005, Firmin-Sellers and Sellers 1999, Sjaastad and Bromley 1997).”
Land Registration, Governance, and Development : Evidence and Implications for Policy (2009, background): “Especially in high-risk environments, individualization of communal land rights that neglects the safety net function provided by flexible patterns of access to land may reduce poor people’s options for risk management and insurance and leave everybody worse off (Baland and Francois 2005).”