Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Searching for Land Tenure Security in Africa
Author: Land Tenure and Administration in Africa
Author: Lorenzo CotulaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land reform
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Land Tenure Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Steven LawryPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000907783
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
This book examines the impacts of land tenure reform interventions implemented in Benin, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe. Since 2000, many African countries have introduced programs aimed at providing smallholder farmers with low-cost certificates for land held under customary tenure. Yet there are many contending views and debates on the impact of these land policies and this book reveals how tenure security, agricultural productivity, and social inclusion were affected by the interventions. It analyses the results of carefully selected, authoritative studies on interventions in Benin, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe and applies a realist synthesis methodology to explore the socio-political and economic contexts. Drawing on these results, the book argues that inadequate attention paid to the core characteristics of rural social systems obscures the benefits of customary tenure while overlooking the scope for reforms to reduce the gaps in social status among members of customary communities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of land management and use, land and property law, tenure security, agrarian studies, political economy, and sustainable development. It will also appeal to development professionals and policymakers involved in land governance and land policy in Africa. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Land Tenure Challenges in Africa
Author: Horman ChitongePublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030828522
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This book provides a significant contribution to the literature on land reform in various African contexts. While the economic evidence is clear that secure property rights are a necessary condition for catalysing broad-based economic development, the governance process by which those rights are secured is less clear. This book details the historical complexity of land rights and the importance of understanding this history in the process of trying to improve tenure security. Through a combination of single country case studies, comparative case studies and regional comparisons, the book is unequivocal that good governance is paramount for improving the performance of land reform programmes. All attempts at moving towards more formal secure tenure require congruence with informal norms, beliefs and values, and a set of clear systems and processes to avoid corruption and unintended negative consequences.
Country Profiles of Land Tenure
Author: John W. BrucePublisher: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Land Tenure Center
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Securing Africa's Land for Shared Prosperity
Author: Frank F. K. ByamugishaPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821398105
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This is the first book on land administration and reform in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is highly relevant to all developing countries around the world. It provides simple practical steps to turn the hugely controversial subject of "land grabs� into a development opportunity by improving land governance to reduce the risks of dispossessing poor landholders while ensuring mutually beneficial investors’ deals. The book shows how Sub Saharan Africa can leverage its abundant and highly valuable natural resources to eradicate poverty by improving land governance through a ten point program to scale up policy reforms and investments at a cost of USD 4.5 billion. The book points out formidable challenges to implementation including high vulnerability to land grabbing and expropriation with poor compensation as about 90 percent of rural lands in Sub Saharan Africa are undocumented, but also timely opportunities since high commodity prices and investor interest in large scale agriculture have increased land values and returns to investing in land administration. It argues that success in implementation will require participation of many players including Pan-African organizations, Sub Saharan Africa governments, the private sector, civil society and development partners; but that ultimate success will depend on the political will of Sub Saharan Africa governments to move forward with comprehensive policy reforms and on concerted support by the international development community. Its rigorous analysis of land governance issues, yet down-to-earth solutions, are a reflection of Byamugisha's more than 20 years of global experience in land reform and administration especially in Asia and Africa. This volume will be of great interest to and relevant for a wide audience interested in African development, global studies in land, and natural resource management.
Country Profiles of Land Tenure
Author: John W. BrucePublisher: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Land Tenure Center
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Changes in Customary Land Tenure Systems in Africa
Author: Jean-Pierre ChauveauPublisher: IIED
ISBN: 1843696576
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Perceived land tenure security and rural transformation
Author: Ghebru, HosaenaPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Tenure security is believed to be critical in spurring agricultural investment and productivity. Yet what improves or impedes tenure security is still poorly understood. Using household- and plot-level data from Ghana, this study analyzes the main factors associated with farmers’ perceived tenure security. Individually, farmers perceive greater tenure security on plots acquired via purchase or inheritance than on land allocated by traditional authorities. Collectively, however, perceived tenure security lessens in communities with more active land markets and economic vibrancy. Migrant households and women in polygamous households feel less secure about their tenure, while farmers with political connections are more confident about their tenure security.
Searching for Tenure Security?
Author: Dessalegn RahmatoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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