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'Scotland must end absurdly outdated land ownership system'

Scotland

By: Karin Goodwin
Date: August 14th 2016
Source: Herald Scotland

Liberia is at a crossroads: recognising land rights can safeguard against violence

Liberia

By: Jennifer Duncan and Jaron Vogelsang
Date: August 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Do mega events affect a country’s land and tenure rights?

Brazil

By: Socorro Leite, National Director, Habitat Brazil
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Uganda: Government to amend land act to ease taking over private land for development

Uganda

Date: August 1st 2016
Source: NTV Uganda

Members of Parliament have condemned government’s move, saying it’s suspect and could fuel land grabbing. They are vowing to oppose the amendment.

Opinion: South Africa's Land 'Expropriation Bill' in an era of rapid urbanization

South Africa

By: John Campbell
Date: June 8th 2016
Source: Council on Foreign Relations

OPINION

Zimbabwe: 'No Compensation for Farmers Yet'

Zimbabwe

Date: April 4th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Herald

Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa says Government does not have capacity to pay for farm compensations at present but will acknowledge indebtedness over a period of time with the farmers that had their land taken from them during the Land Reform Programme.

Scotland: ‘Historic’ land reform legislation passed

Scotland

By: Andy Wightman
Date: March 17th 2016
Source: Scottishlegal.com

Legislation to transform how land is used and governed has been passed by the Scottish Parliament.

South Africa has taken a big step towards abolishing property rights

South Africa

By: Anthea Jeffrey
Date: March 11th 2016
Source: Rand Daily Mail

South Africa: Anthea Jeffery: Creeping land nationalisation no poverty solution

South Africa

By: Stuart Lowman
Date: March 1st 2016
Source: Biznews.com

Debate still rages over South Africa’s land reform

South Africa

By: SABC
Date: February 24th 2016
Source: SABC News

South Africa's main house of Parliament took a first step on Tuesday towards enabling the state to make compulsory purchases of land to redress racial disparities in land ownership.

South Africa parliament passes land expropriation bill

South Africa

By: Ed Stoddard
Date: February 23rd 2016
Source: Reuters

South Africa's main house of parliament took a first step on Tuesday toward enabling the state to make compulsory purchases of land to redress racial disparities in land ownership.

Zimbabwe: Land plan 'recipe for disaster'

Zimbabwe

By: Staff Reporter
Date: February 15th 2016
Source: Times Live

The land reform plan President Jacob Zuma envisaged in his State of the Nation address on Thursday will prompt a mass exodus of foreign investors, AfriBusiness has warned.

Blogs

Conflict and land tenure security: What is the relationship?

3 December 2021

Authors:

Paul Prettitore

Global

Land tenure—the formal and informal relationship individuals and groups form with land—effectively determines who uses what land under which conditions. Tenure security is important to promote rural resilience and climate change adaptation, build endowments of assets, and provide adequate housing. But land tenure security is not static.

Open Data and Corruption in Land Governance

29 January 2021

Authors:

Dr. Marcello De Maria

Global

The data revolution – characterised by the transition to big data, open data and new digital data infrastructures [1] – is projected to make an astonishing 44 billion terabytes of digital data and information available by the end of 2020 [2]. Despite this plethora of information now available to us, about 1 billion people in 140 countries still feel insecure about their land and property rights [3].

Minutes from final session of the Conference on Fair Compensation (Cape Town, South Africa (Dec. 9, 2016))

Global

The Rethinking Expropriation Law initiative hosted a Conference on Compensation for Expropriation in Cape Town, South Africa on December 7-9, 2016. The final session of the Conference took place on December 9 and aimed at discussing the development of a protocol on fair compensation.

For the final session in Cape Town, scholars, judges, activists, and government officials from around the world sat together to provide input on what guidance and principles should be included in the protocol on fair compensation.

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Events

Eviction response during and after COVID-19

27 May 2020

Location

Online

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Global

Join us for the Land Rights and COVID-19 webinar and discussion series, which is presented by Land Portal, Landesa, the Global Protection Cluster HLP AOR and GIZ, with organizing support from Environmental Peacebuilding Association, LANDac, New America and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID).

Organizers:

Global Protection Cluster Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility

Environmental Peacebuilding

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Landesa - Rural Development Institute

Land Portal Foundation

New America

LANDac

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Discussions

What can we do to achieve sustainable pro-poor land reform in South Africa?

Closed

19 November 2018 to 7 December 2018

Facilitators:

Dr. Rick de Satgé

Partners:

Phuhlisani NPC

Land Portal Foundation

South Africa

In February 2018, South Africa’s National Assembly passed a resolution to establish an ad hoc Constitutional Review Committee to explore and debate the need for a constitutional amendment to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation in the public interest.

Debate on land valuation and fair compensation

Closed

28 November 2016 to 23 December 2016

Global

Land tenure changes are on the rise throughout the world as a result of increased migration from rural to urban areas, expansion of infrastructure, commercial pressures on agricultural land, extractive activities, and climate change. Shifts in land tenure arrangements are proceeding through compulsory acquisitions (i.e. expropriations) and voluntary market transactions, such large-scale land leases and concessions.

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Organizations

Land Development and Governance Institute (LDGI)

Land Development and Governance Institute

MISSION: To contribute to improved livelihoods through offering a bridge between communities, stakeholders and policy makers in the promotion of equitable access and sustainable management of land and natural resources.

Land Journal RICS (Land Journal RICS)

The Land Journal is published six times a year for members of the Rural, Geomatics, Minerals & Waste Management, Environment, and Planning & Development professional groups.

The journal emphasises the crossovers in these practice areas and their global nature, with articles contributed by experts from all over the world.

Current and recent issues of Land Journal can be downloaded below. Earlier archived issues can be obtained from our library (e library@rics.org).

Legal Resources Centre (LRC)

The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) is South Africa’s largest public interest, human rights law clinic. Established in 1979, we use the law as an instrument of justice for the vulnerable and marginalised, including poor, homeless and landless people.

Nicholas K. Tagliarino (NKT)

The legal data collected for Nicholas Tagliarino's dissertation and posted on Land Book examines whether national expropriation, compensation, and resettlement laws in developing countries are adopting international standards designed to secure tenure rights and ensure responsible land governance. The analysis conducted for this dataset is based on Section 16 of the UN Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure, which establishes standards on expropriation, compensation, and resettlement.

Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA)

REPOA was formed in 1994 in Tanzania with the mandate to contribute to the alleviation of poverty in its multiple dimensions through research and capacity building. Over time, REPOA’s mandate has expanded beyond alleviating poverty to encompass growth and socio-economic transformation for poverty reduction.

REPOA’s STRATEGIC PLAN FOR 2015-2019

Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI)

SERI is a public interest legal services organisation that provides pro-bono assistance to communities through research, advocacy and litigation across three main themes: ‘Securing a Home’, ‘Making a Living’ and ‘Expanding Political Space’.

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Members of Parliament have condemned government’s move, saying it’s suspect and could fuel land grabbing. They are vowing to oppose the amendment.

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