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Land Redistribution in South Africa

A Critical Review

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2012
South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
Urban Tenure
Land & Food Security
agrarian reform
agriculture
farmers
farmland
food security
land administration
land management
land ownership
land reform
land rights
land tenure
land transfers
land use
landowners
leases
property rights
rural areas
rural development
tenant farmers
tenants
urbanization
This paper provides an overview of land reform in South Africa from 1994 to 2011, with the focus on the land redistribution. The government policies and associated implementation since 1994 have not generated expected social and economic results for a number of reasons. Even where land has been transferred, it appears to have had minimal impact on the livelihoods of beneficiaries, largely because of inappropriate project design, a lack of necessary support services and shortages of working capital, leading to widespread underutilization of land.
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Revising the Land Law to Enable Sustainable Development in Vietnam

Summary of Priority Policy Recommendations Drawn form World Bank Studies

Training Resources & Tools
Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2012
Vietnam, Eastern Asia, Oceania
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
Forest Tenure
agriculture
climate change
common property
decentralization
farmland
forest land
forestry
land administration
land allocation
land area
land degradation
land distribution
land law
land management
land markets
land ownership
land reform
land registration
land rights
land speculation
land tenure
land titling
land transfers
land use
land-use planning
land valuation
natural resources management
sustainable development
sustainable land use
urban areas
urban planning
urbanization
Vietnam's rapid and sustained economic growth and poverty reduction in the last two decades benefitted from the policy and legal reforms embodied in the Land Laws of 1987, 1993 and 2003 and subsequent related legal acts. This note outlines reforms related to four main themes. The first relates to the needed reform for agriculture land use to create opportunity to enhance effectiveness of land use as well as to secure farmers' rights in land use. Prolonging the duration of agricultural land tenure would give land users greater incentives to invest and care for the land.
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Land Reform in Eastern Europe - Western CIS, Transcaucuses, Balkans, and EU Accession Countries

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2001
Serbia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Croatia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Moldova, Albania, Armenia, Poland, Germany, Georgia, Romania, Czech Republic, Europe
Land & Investments
farmland
public ownership
land use
land markets
private ownership
land transfers
land reform
land ownership
The former socialist countries of Eastern Europe (that is, Europe east of Germany and west of the Urals, but including all of Russia) began a transition to a market economy in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. This paper looks at one aspect of that transition: the transition from state ownership to private ownership of agricultural land and the accompanying transition to a land market for agricultural land.
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Rising Global Interest in Farmland : Can it Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits?

March, 2012
Global
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
agriculture
capacity development
climate change
common property
deforestation
farmers
farming systems
farmland
fisheries
food security
forest land
forestry
land consolidation
land markets
land reform
land rent
land rights
land tenure
land transfers
land use
land-use planning
pastoralists
property rights
rural development
rural population
sustainable development
sustainable land management
urbanization
zoning
Interest in farmland is rising. And,
given commodity price volatility, growing human and
environmental pressures, and worries about food security,
this interest will increase, especially in the developing
world. One of the highest development priorities in the
world must be to improve smallholder agricultural
productivity, especially in Africa. Smallholder productivity
is essential for reducing poverty and hunger, and more and
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China - Integrating Land Policy Reforms II : Strengthening Land Rights for Equitable Growth and Social Harmony

February, 2013
China
Land & Investments
agriculture
collective ownership
compensation
eminent domain
farmland
land administration
land markets
land ownership
land reform
land registration
land rights
land speculation
land tenure
land transactions
land transfers
land use
land-use planning
landowners
private ownership
rural planning
rural population
urban areas
This report evaluates the legal
framework for rural land rights, the regulations of rural
housing sites, the effects of land requisition on farmers
who lose land, and some selected issues affecting urban land
rights. The focus of this report is how to enhance property
rights in a number of different contexts. The report makes a
series of specific policy recommendations for rural
agricultural land, rural housing land, to protect rights in
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Land Policy Dialogues : Addressing Urban-Rural Synergies in World Bank Facilitated Dialogues in the Last Decade

March, 2013
Global
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
agrarian reform
agriculture
decentralization
farmland
land administration
land consolidation
land distribution
land management
land markets
land ownership
land policies
land reform
land registration
land rights
land tenure
land titling
land transfers
land use
land-use planning
landowners
property rights
slums
squatters
sustainable development
transaction costs
urban areas
urban planning
urban population
urbanization
zoning
Land policy, administration and
management are areas of strong client demand for technical
advice and operational support. This review sought to help
the Bank better position itself to present coherent advice
on policy, institutional arrangements and practice. The
potential implications are a lowering of reputational risk
to the Bank; greater efficiency in the process including
joint data gathering; and building of greater momentum and
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Land Rights and Economic Development : Evidence from Vietnam

April, 2014
Vietnam
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
land rights
land reform
land transfers
land markets
agriculture
farmers
farmland
land administration
land allocation
land consolidation
land law
land management
land registration
land rent
land tenure
land use
private ownership
property rights
rural development
tenants
urbanization
The authors examine the impact of land
reform in Vietnam which gives households the power to
exchange, transfer, lease, inherit, and mortgage their
land-use rights. The authors expect this change to increase
the incentives as well as the ability to undertake long-term
investments on the part of households. Their
difference-in-differences estimation strategy takes
advantage of the variation across provinces in the issuance
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What Drives the Global “Land Rush”?

March, 2012
Global
Land & Investments
agriculture
deforestation
expropriation
farmland
forest land
forestry
land clearing
land markets
land ownership
land policies
land reform
land rights
land tenure
land tenure systems
land transfers
land use
property rights
zoning
The 2007-2008 upsurge in agricultural
commodity prices gave rise to widespread concern about
investors causing a "global land rush". Large land
deals can provide opportunities for better access to
capital, transfer of technology, and advances in
productivity and employment generation. But they carry risks
of dispossession and loss of livelihoods, corruption,
deterioration in local food security, environmental damage,
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Land Fragmentation, Cropland Abandonment, and Land Market Operation in Albania

April, 2012
Albania
Land & Investments
agrarian reform
agriculture
decentralization
farmers
farmland
land administration
land consolidation
land markets
land ownership
land reform
land speculation
land tenure
land transfers
land use
leases
private ownership
property rights
rural development
tenants
transaction costs
Albania's radical farmland
distribution is credited with averting an economic crisis
and social unrest during the transition. But many believe it
led to a holding structure too fragmented to be efficient,
and that public efforts to consolidate plots are needed to
lay the foundation for greater rural productivity. This
paper uses farm-level data from the 2005 Albania Living
Standards Measurement Survey to explore this quantitatively.
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Land in Transition : Reform and Poverty in Rural Vietnam

Reports & Research
May, 2012
Vietnam
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
agrarian reform
agrarian structure
agriculture
farmland
land consolidation
land law
land markets
land ownership
land reform
land rights
land tenure
land titling
land transfers
land use
landlessness
landowners
private ownership
property rights
rural areas
rural development
rural population
tenant farmers
transaction costs
urbanization
The policy reforms called for in the
transition from a socialist command economy to a developing
market economy bring both opportunities and risks to a
country's citizens. In poor economies, the initial
focus of reform efforts is naturally the rural sector, which
is where one finds the bulk of the population and almost all
the poor. Economic development will typically entail moving
many rural households out of farming into more remunerative