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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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Securing customary land tenure in Africa: alternative approaches to the local recording and registration of land rights: report of workshop held at IIED

Reports & Research
January, 2000
Sub-Saharan Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Europe
land records
land registration
land
land rights
land tenure
Series of papers on land tenure issues including: Piloting local administration of records in Ekuthuleni, KwaZulu-Natal, by Donna Hornby (AFRA, South Africa)Ivory Coast’s Plan Foncier Rural: lessons from a pilot project to register customary rights, by Camilla Toulmin (IIED) Customary land identification and recording in Mozambique, by Chris Tanner Supporting local rights: will the centre let go?
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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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The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Land: Case Studies from Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa

Reports & Research
September, 2002
South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya, Africa
land use
land
land administration
land rights
Paper prepared for the FAO’s Southern and Eastern Africa Office. Contains introduction to the impact of HIV/AIDS on land issues – land use, land rights, land administration; country studies; the impact of HIV/AIDS in Lesotho, in Kenya, in South Africa, and general findings and recommendations. Latter include land use strategies, land rights and land administration, and developing solutions.
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Customary Land Tenure Reform in Uganda: Lessons for South Africa

Reports & Research
August, 2002
South Africa, Uganda, Africa
land
tenants
land tenure
Includes historical background; customary land tenure; tenants; the customary system of land holding in Uganda today; legal provisions; provisions on equality and non-discrimination; lessons in the Ugandan legislative process; key challenges; lessons for South Africa.
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Case Study Boxes on Land Reform in Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa

Reports & Research
March, 2000
Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Mozambique, Africa
land
land reform
One page boxes summarising recent land reform developments in the countries listed.
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Bioenergy and land tenure

Reports & Research
December, 2008
Angola, France, Nigeria, Mali, Zimbabwe, China, Germany, Indonesia, Bolivia, Ghana, Colombia, Kenya, Japan, South Africa, Malaysia, Cameroon, Tanzania, Netherlands, Argentina, India, Sudan, Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo
land policies
land
land governance
land tenure
land rights
land access
right of access
Land Tenure Working Paper 1. This document analyzes the implications for land tenure and land policy of biofuels. It examines the current and likely future impacts of the increasing spread of biofuels on access to land in producer countries, particularly for poorer rural people. It aims to pave the way for future empirical research on the links between the spread of biofuels and access to land, through developing a conceptual framework for such research and through taking stock of data available in the literature.
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Land Resources Information Systems for Food Security in SADC Countries

Reports & Research
December, 2000
Egypt, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, China, Namibia, Eswatini, Ghana, Iran, Djibouti, Malawi, Eritrea, Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho, Malaysia, Italy, Tanzania, Botswana
natural resources management
land use
land
water management
land management
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Land and People in Protracted Crises

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Angola, Mozambique, Liberia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia
land
land management
This note focuses on the topic of access to land and land governance in protracted crises, providing some possible solutions illustrated by case studies from FAO interventions in such contexts. Protracted crisis represent a signal of alert on the fact that approaches proposed so far where not enough to deal with such a complexity. This is why a renewed thinking is needed, based on the concrete observations of local dynamics, making an effort to understand the positions and interests of the many diverse parties involved and moving out from a sectorial vision, towards a more holistic one.
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Improving tenure security for the poor in Africa: Namibia Country Case Study.

Reports & Research
December, 2006
Angola, Kenya, South Africa, Germany, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Norway, Africa
land
customary law
land governance
land registration
land rights
land access
land tenure
land ownership
This case study looks at the land tenure in Namibia, where for a century of colonial rule indigenous Namibians were dispossessed from rights to both land and resources – by German and then white South African settlers establishing commercial farms and related businesses. Access to freehold tenure was reserved for white settlers and tenure security for indigenous Namibians largely disappeared. In non-white areas, rights were provided under indigenous tenure systems whose legal status was somewhat murky. Urban tenure was denied as blacks were not allowed ownership of residential land.