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Consultative workshop on land policy in Africa: a framework on action to secure land rights, enhance productivity and secure livelihoods

Summary of key messages and recommendations of the consultative workshop

Reports & Research
March, 2006
Africa
land policies
land rights
land economics
land
In view of the importance of land to Africa’s social, political and economic development, as well as sustainable resource management, AU/NEPAD, ECA and ADB, under the leadership of the AU Commission, agreed to work jointly during 2006-2007 to develop a land policy framework and guidelines, as well as the modalities for its implementation at country, regional and continental levels.
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Consultative workshop on land policy in Africa: a framework on action to secure land rights, enhance productivity and secure livelihoods :summary of key messages and recommendations of the consultative workshop

Summary of key messages and recommendations of the consultative workshop

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2006
Africa
land policies
land rights
land economics
land
The consultative workshop, which took place 27-29 March 2006 at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC), Addis Ababa, was the first step in the process of developing a land policy framework and guidelines. The discussions were informed by an issues/discussion paper, and brought together representatives from African governments, Regional Economic Communities, Civil Society including farmers' organizations, African private sector, Centres of Excellence and Development Partners.
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Land policy reform: the role of land markets and women's land rights in Malawi

Reports & Research
January, 2006
Malawi, Southern Africa, Eastern Africa
Land & Investments
Land & Gender
land
land rights
land markets
women
Malawi is facing increasing land scarcity and food insecurity for its large rural population and is in the midst of an on-going land policy reform process. This report asks how these reforms may affect women's land rights in a situation of increasing scarcity and competition for land. Reforms include the formalisation of customary land rights as private land rights as a way to ensure tenure security and equitable access to land. It warns that through this approach, women's rights may become increasingly marginalised.
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Landless women, hopeless women? Gender, land and decentralisation in Niger

Reports & Research
January, 2006
Niger, Western Africa, Middle Africa
Land & Gender
land
land rights
women
This study aims to identify how women's capacity to become more involved in decision-making at the local level can be strengthened, particularly in terms of access to natural resources. It also aims to identify the structures through which women secure their systems of production. It focuses on the situation in Niger, where women are increasingly excluded from dominant systems of production: in agricultural areas, they are increasingly excluded from agricultural production and in pastoralist areas, they have lost their herds and had to resort to agriculture.
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Access to Land in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Implications for the South African Black Woman

Reports & Research
January, 2006
South Africa, Southern Africa, Eastern Africa
Land & Gender
land rights
land
Indigenous land tenure arrangements in South Africa have generally consisted of communal ownership. In this system, who benefited from the land depended on their status as family or clan head. The colonial regime dispossessed Africans of land in favour of European arrivals, or defined family property as ancestral property in which the senior males of the head family were taken as the owners with the rights to inherit. The post-apartheid government conceptualised acess to land for the previously disadvantaged as a human right.
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Biting the Feeding Hand: Voices of Women on Land

Reports & Research
January, 2006
Africa
Land & Gender
land reform
land
land access
women
Collection of stories of poor women in Kibaale, Luweero, Kapchorwa, Apac, Mbale and Kampala districts about their struggles in securing their rights to land. Contains overview of land issues in Uganda. Topics include land access through marriage, inheritance, the land market, land reform processes, NGO donations and support, urban women and access to land, what needs to be done – recommendations to government.
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The SADC Land and Agrarian Reform Initiative: The case of Namibia

Reports & Research
December, 2006
Namibia, Africa
land reform
land
agrarian reform
expropriation
farmland
Looks at the institutional framework, at current key land policy and agrarian issues, and at the impact of land and agrarian reform. Makes a series of recommendations. Argues that the resettlement programme has failed with not a single project sustainable after 5 years. Argues the need for clear criteria for expropriation of commercial farmland and for farm workers to be a priority target in land reform projects.
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Land Tenure Reform and Gender Equity

Reports & Research
January, 2006
Africa
Land & Gender
decentralization
land
land reform
research
land tenure
women
Recent UNRISD research finds that the new generation of land tenure reforms introduced in the 19990s is not necessarily more gender equitable than earlier efforts, even though women’s ability to gain independent access to land is increasingly on the statutes.
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Land and Pro-Poor Change in Sierra Leone

Reports & Research
July, 2006
Sierra Leone, Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land
land rights
land reform
land tenure
Contains situational analysis, policy context, tentative conclusions and options for intervention. Addresses the question of how to increase security of land rights for the urban and rural poor. Examines the existing multiple land tenure system. Argues that land reform in Sierra Leone is both necessary and possible though there are many constraints. The costs of doing nothing will likely include further civil unrest and environmental degradation.
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Consensus, Confusion, and Controversy: Selected Land Reform Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa

Reports & Research
January, 2006
Africa
land
waste (abuse)
farmers
land tenure
property
property rights
common property
land reform
Paper targeted at land reform practitioners and stakeholders in government and civil society. Argues that land reform can broadly be divided into land tenure reform and land redistribution. First chapter gives short narrative of key land tenure and land policy issues. These remain politically sensitive, but consensus is emerging on how to deal with them once confusion surrounding private /common property and formal / informal rights is cleared up. Secure property rights should not be confused with full private ’ownership’.