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Country Profiles on Housing and Land Management: Republic of Armenia

Reports & Research
December, 2017
Armenia
Urban Tenure
land administration
development
sustainable development
land policies
land-use planning
urban planning
urbanization
social housing
land management
natural disasters
land markets
land valuation
housing rights
This Country Profile (CP) of the Republic of Armenia is the nineteenth in the series and the second review done for the country. The first was prepared in 2004 and the analyses covered only the housing sector. This CP is an in-depth analyses of the housing, urban development and land management sectors of the Republic of Armenia. It provides policy recommendations on these sectors, while focusing on specific challenges and achievements.
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Registration of rural land for deceased households in Ethiopia

Reports & Research
August, 2017
Ethiopia
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
Land & Investments
land
adjudication
This study provides interim procedures for registering rural land holdings when one or both of a childs parents are deceased at the time of field demarcation and adjudication..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme. For more information;please check: https://landportal.org/community/projects/land-investment-transformation...
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The impact of the EEU access to finance and land rental interventions on rural Ethiopian households (first round data collection in 2017)

Reports & Research
October, 2017
Ethiopia
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land & Investments
land rent
This survey report provides findings of a survey to measure the impacts of LIFTs rural land rental market and access to finance interventions..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme. For more information;please check: https://landportal.org/community/projects/land-investment-transformation...
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Understanding changing land access and use by the rural poor in Senegal

Reports & Research
May, 2017
Senegal
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
land governance
urbanization
mining
land acquisitions
land access
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Land Corruption Risk Mapping: Developing a handbook on how to identify and tackle corruption risks in land governance

Reports & Research
April, 2017
Kenya
Land & Corruption
corruption
land inheritance rights
land acquisitions
illegal occupation
indigenous peoples' land rights
The Land Corruption Risk Mapping Instrument is designed to raise awareness and understand how to detect corruption in land governance issues. The instrument is developed in a way that it can be applied in any Sub-Saharan African country. It is published as a handbook that gives explanations, guidance and examples.
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A Study Report on Analysis of Key Land Laws in Sri Lanka

A special reference to Women and Community Land Rights

Reports & Research
October, 2017
Sri Lanka
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land law
land reform
legal pluralism
environment
common lands
land economics
land rights
community land rights
property rights
women
Land is an imperative and crucial factor in the social, cultural and economic identity of the people in Sri Lanka due to the importance it has been given throughout our history. Moreover, the rights and interests over land are unequivocally and legally secured without any discrimination on the basis of gender, caste, religious or ethnic lines for its peaceful enjoyment and for the economic development of the people and the country.
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Restoration of Land Rights of People Affected by Land Appropriations and Tenure Insecurity

A case study based on five selected locations in Sri Lanka where the land rights of people have been violated due to land grabbing or tenure insecurity

Reports & Research
April, 2017
Sri Lanka
Land Conflicts
land administration
farmland
rural areas
agriculture
conflicts
land acquisitions
land rights
landlessness
land dispute
rural population
This study is prepared using the data analysis of a field study conducted in January 2017 in the Districts of Monaragala, Ampara, Trincomalee, Mullaitivu and Jaffna in Sri Lanka focusing on the land rights violations that took place in the recent past due to the appropriation of land from the ordinary citizens by the security forces and individuals backed by powerful people and, the tenure security problems faced by the landless rural communities in Monaragala and Ampara districts and the sugar cane farmers living in the settlements of Pelwatta Sugar Company, which is now owned by the gover
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Urban Land Markets and Urban Land Development : an Examination of three Brazilian Cities : Brasília, Curitiba and Recife

Reports & Research
March, 2017
Brazil
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
development
land
land markets
urban land
This paper synthesizes and extends the results of urban land market studies carriedout in three Brazilian cities ? Brasília, Curitiba and Recife. The purpose of thestudies is to empirically assess the performance of urban land markets in differentcities and to gauge the feasibility of applying the Land Market Assessmentmethodology in Brazil.
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"Land grabbing" by foreign investors in developing countries: Risks and opportunities

Reports & Research
March, 2017
Norway
land
land grabbing
"One of the lingering effects of the food price crisis of 2007–08 on the world food system is the proliferating acquisition of farmland in developing countries by other countries seeking to ensure their food supplies. Increased pressures on natural resources, water scarcity, export restrictions imposed by major producers when food prices were high, and growing distrust in the functioning of regional and global markets have pushed countries short in land and water to find alternative means of producing food.
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Grabbing the 'clean slate' : The politics of the intersection of land grabbing, disasters and climate change

Reports & Research
March, 2017
Norway, Philippines
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land
land grabbing
Land grabs in the wake of a disaster are nothing new. However this phenomenon gains certain particularities and interest when it happens within the current context of climate change policy initiatives and the global land rush. This nexus produces a new set of political processes containing new actors and alliances, legitimizations, and mechanisms of dispossession that set off a different pace for land grabs. This study explores this nexus which has the potential to swiftly reboot spatial, institutional and political land arrangements in poor communities on a large scale, globally.