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1. Library Resource

   

   Computerized land information system as a tool of land record management

   A case study of the land rent section of the Department of Lands, Ministry of Lands and Settlement, Nairobi Kenya

   Reports & Research

   October, 2003

   Kenya

   land records

   land

   research

   This project thesis presents a conceptual framework for a land information system that
   would result in increased revenue collection from the land rent section of the Department
   of Lands, Ministry of Lands and Settlement. It point out the need for a comprehensive
   database containing both physical and socio-economic data supported by powerful
   analytical capabilities as the basis for effective decision making on land rent for tax
   revenue collection.
   The Government has admittedly a lot of untapped revenue in the form of unrevised land
   

2. Library Resource

   

   Double standards: women's property rights violations in Kenya

   Reports & Research

   January, 2003

   Sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya

   Land & Gender

   land

   land tenure

   property

   property rights

   women

   This report recounts the experiences of 130 women from various regions, ethnic groups, religions, and social classes in Kenya who have had their property rights flouted because they are women.The report presents evidence that women are excluded from inheriting, evicted from their lands and homes by in-laws, stripped of their possessions, and forced to engage in risky sexual practices in order to keep their property. When they divorce or separate from their husbands, they are often expelled from their homes with only their clothing.

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   Report of the FAO/OXFAM GB workshop on women's land rights in Southern and Eastern Africa

   Reports & Research

   January, 2003

   Sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Botswana, South Africa

   Land & Gender

   land

   land rights

   land tenure

   advocacy

   women

   This document reports on a workshop held in South Africa in June 2003 to address continuing insecurity of women's land rights. It brought together a broad group of participants covering NGO, grassroots, government, UN agency staff, researchers, activists, lawyers, and women living with HIV/AIDS.

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   History Repeating itself in Zimbabwe? Evictions in 2002 and 1948

   Reports & Research

   January, 2003

   Zimbabwe, Africa

   land

   eviction

   dispossession

   farmers

   Presents two personal testimonies of eviction and dispossession to illustrate the long and complex political history of land in Zimbabwe. The first concerns the eviction of white commercial farmers from one district in December 2002, the second of black peasant farmers in 1948, to make way for the white post-1945 white war veterans.

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   Overview of Rwanda’s Land Policy and Land Law and Key Challenges for Implementation: Briefing Document

   Reports & Research

   February, 2003

   Rwanda, Africa

   land

   land tenure

   land rights

   land law

   An introduction, overview and historical section is followed by sections on Rwanda’s Land Policy and law, outlining main problems identified and policy objectives. Includes the nature of land rights, registration, consolidation, establishment of commissions, villagisation and urbanisation, key challenges for implementation, impact of AIDS, role of political representatives, civil society and NGOs, and sensitisation and consultation on the implementation of the Policy and the law.

6. Library Resource

   

   Land tenure policy and practice in Zambia: issues relating to the development of the agricultural sector

   Reports & Research

   January, 2003

   Zambia, Africa

   land

   land administration

   land tenure

   land rights

   land titling

   A comprehensive review covering stages in the development of Zambia’s land policy; land administration – customary land and leasehold tenure; land titling; current land policy consultation process; outstanding land policy issues – alienation of customary land, land market issues, problems faced by the poor in securing land rights, legal framework; development aid for the land sector in Zambia and possible DFID support.

7. Library Resource

   

   The Situation of Commercial Farm Workers after Land Reform in Zimbabwe

   Reports & Research

   May, 2003

   Zimbabwe, Africa

   Urban Tenure

   Land & Food Security

   food security

   compensation

   land

   informal settlements

   land reform

   agrarian reform

   An executive summary and recommendations are followed by 5 chapters: on the land question, reform and farm workers; the scope and process of fast track reform; the impact of land reform on farm workers’ livelihoods; food security, vulnerable groups, HIV-AIDS and coping strategies; and after the ‘promised land’ – towards the future. Study reveals that by early 2003, only about 100,000 of the original c.320,000 farm workers were still employed on the farms, the others are jobless and landless and have lost their entitlement to housing, basic social services and subsidised food.

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   From a Gender Perspective: Notions of Land Tenure Security in the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania

   Reports & Research

   March, 2003

   Tanzania, Africa

   Land & Gender

   land reform

   women

   land

   land rights

   land tenure

   Gives a brief overview on how the gender debate featured in the process of land reform in Tanzania and asks why socio-economic arguments have to be used by advocates of gender equitable land rights. Focuses on the Uluguru mountains and shows that the need for registration is rather a consequence of its possibility and not of deficiencies of tenure security within the customary system, and that informal access to land can be experienced as more secure than formal registration. Further argues that demand to use land as collateral is low and risk-awareness especially among women high.

9. Library Resource

   

   Biological management of soil ecosystems for sustainable agriculture

   Reports & Research

   December, 2003

   Egypt, United States of America, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Australia, Burkina Faso, Cuba, Colombia, Kenya, Philippines, Uganda, Italy, Tanzania, Ecuador, Netherlands, India, United Kingdom, Bhutan, Mexico, Brazil

   land use

   land management

   land

   This publication contains the proceedings of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA)/FAO International Technical Workshop on Biological Management of Soil Ecosystems for Sustainable Agriculture, which was held at EMBRAPA-Soybean headquarters in Londrina, Brazil, from 24 to 25 June 2002.