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Lineage and land reforms in Malawi: Do matrilineal and patrilineal landholding systems represent a problem for land reforms in Malawi?

Land Use Policy Volume 41

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2014
Malawi, Norway, United States of America
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land reform
land tenure
land tenure systems
land use
lineage
matrilineal lineage
patrilineal lineage
research
Based on government statistics and interviews with villagers across Malawi this article argues that customary matrilineal and patrilineal land tenure systems serve to weaken security of land tenure for some family members as well as obstructing the creation of gender-neutral inheritance of lands. Data from the National Census of Agriculture and Livestock 2007and the 2008 Population and Housing Census are used to characterize marriage systems and landholding patterns of local communities. Marriage systems correspond to customary land-tenure patterns of matrilineal or patrilineal cultures.
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Land fragmentation and production diversification: A case study from rural Albania

Land Use Policy Volume 76

Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2018
Albania, Norway
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land reform
land use
research
rural development
We analyze the impact of land fragmentation on production diversification in rural Albania. Albania represents a particularly interesting case for studying land fragmentation as the fragmentation is a direct outcome of land reforms. The results indicate that land fragmentation is an important driver of production diversification of farm households in Albania. We find that land fragmentation stimulates significantly more diversification for subsistence farm households than for market-oriented households.
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Shared real estate situation in Riga

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2017
Latvia
Urban Tenure
land policies
property rights
land economics
research
land rights
cadastres
land reform
urban areas
The topic about shared real estate and ownership of landed property has become important only in the latest years. In connection with the rise of estate tax, the land’s cadastre value and the lease of land, the contradictions have also become more aggravated in shared real estate’s situations, which had occurred at some point when land reforms and privatization took place.
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The analysis of the land use of the homesteads of former manors

Multimedia
December, 2016
Latvia, Lithuania
land consolidation
land policies
land economics
rural areas
land use
research
land reform
From the old times Lithuanian manors were the main centres of diplomacy, administration and culture. The applied land reforms, war and post-war periods and changing regimes altered the structures of the manors; their owners and users changed as well. The number of homesteads of manors and their territory highly decreased. During various periods of time more than 150 manors were present in the current territory of Panevėžys district municipality. The aim of the research is to analyse the land use of the least researched homesteads of former manors in 1923 and 2016.
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The analysis of cadastral measurements of land parcels in Sakiai district Aleksandras Stulginskis University, Lithuania

Multimedia
December, 2016
Latvia, Lithuania
land policies
rural areas
land economics
cadastres
land reform
research
This article analyses the issue of the inadequacy between the results of preliminary measurements performed during the land reform and results of cadastral measurements. The aim of the research is to analyse the change of areas of land parcels of Sakiai district, the mistakes which were made during the measurements and their causes, as well as to make the comparison between preliminary and cadastral measurements.
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Rural development in Baltic States: case study of Lithuania (survey of the last century)

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2013
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
land reform
rural development
research
Aim of the paper: in order to create the new most appropriate model of rural development in Lithuania, it is necessary to analyse specific situation, created under the influence of the last century historical events and its long-term consequences. Lithuania, as well as other Baltic states, has created the agrarian sector under the very complicated economical, social, and cultural circumstances. Each Baltic state (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) had some specific features of rural development, which were formed during the last century.
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The fate of employees in different status classes after decollectivization from early 1990s until 2005 in one Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian kolkhoz. First results

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2008
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland
farming systems
land reform
research
Having done research on agricultural decollectivization and its consequences since 1992, Ilkka Alanen and his colleagues has accumulated a wealth of knowledge on the coping strategies people adopted in order to survive in the Baltic countries and elsewhere (See Alanen 1998, Alanen et al 2001 and Alanen 2004a). The problems turned out to be much more difficult than the reforms planers anticipated, and that some of the initial failures still overshadow people’s lives.
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The development of forest property rights from early 20th century to modern times

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2013
Latvia
development
land policies
property rights
land economics
research
agrarian reform
Forest is an important natural resource to the Latvian economy. It is useful to examine the historical context to estimate objectively the events that created the structure of forest property rights today. While 50.3% of all Latvian forests are state-owned and the remaining 49.7% are under different ownership, historically this structure has changed with the political situation and the authorities.
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Description of land fragmentation in Latvia and its prevention opportunities

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2012
Latvia
land consolidation
land policies
farmland
land economics
land reform
research
Already during the Land Reform, land properties of several land parcels were formed in the rural areas. Another factor that benefits to the fragmentation of farm properties is development of land market because buying or renting land for farm size building, it is not always possible to find adjacent land plot. Consequently, the land fragmentation not only makes land management difficult, but also increases the transport costs. With this rural land tenure system, competitive and efficient agricultural production cannot be discussed, so a large part of rural areas remains untreated.
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Developing land consolidation concept and strategy in the Republic of Moldova

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2011
Moldova, Latvia
land consolidation
land policies
land reform
land economics
research
In the paper short data on the results of implementation of pilot land consolidation projects in 6 villages of the Republic of Moldova in 2007-2009 are presented. As a result it became possible to accumulate the experience necessary for extension of these works in scales of all country. Simultaneously a number of difficulties and problems have been identified. It will be difficult to realize these works without elimination of them.