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Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration from Theory to Practice: Three Demonstrative Case Studies of Local Land Administration Initiatives in Africa

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Kenya, Namibia, Ghana
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Investments
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
tenure security
Land is a critical factor of production for improving the living conditions of people everywhere. The search for tools (or approaches or strategies or methods) for ensuring that land challenges are resolved in ways that quickly respond to local realities is what led to the development of the fit-for-purpose land administration. This article provides evidence that the fit-for-purpose land administration—as a land-based instrument for development—represents an unprecedented opportunity to provide tenure security in Africa.
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Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration from Theory to Practice: Three Demonstrative Case Studies of Local Land Administration Initiatives in Africa

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Kenya, Namibia, Ghana
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Investments
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land tenure
Land is a critical factor of production for improving the living conditions of people everywhere. The search for tools (or approaches or strategies or methods) for ensuring that land challenges are resolved in ways that quickly respond to local realities is what led to the development of the fit-for-purpose land administration. This article provides evidence that the fit-for-purpose land administration—as a land-based instrument for development—represents an unprecedented opportunity to provide tenure security in Africa.
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Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration from Theory to Practice: Three Demonstrative Case Studies of Local Land Administration Initiatives in Africa

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Kenya, Namibia, Ghana
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Investments
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land administration
Land is a critical factor of production for improving the living conditions of people everywhere. The search for tools (or approaches or strategies or methods) for ensuring that land challenges are resolved in ways that quickly respond to local realities is what led to the development of the fit-for-purpose land administration. This article provides evidence that the fit-for-purpose land administration—as a land-based instrument for development—represents an unprecedented opportunity to provide tenure security in Africa.
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Urbanisation, land and property rights. The need to refocus attention

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Ghana, Tanzania, Sub-Saharan Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Urban Tenure
land governance
land management
land tenure
land tenure
land tenure systems
periurban areas
The report’s findings suggest that policies and programmes of governments and the development partners could include a stronger focus on the development of peri-urban areas and smaller cities and towns. The rapid pace of change in peri-urban areas throws into relief any underlying issues in land tenure arrangements, land administration/planning and governance, such as overlapping mandates, conflicts in tenure systems, weak land administration/planning capacity and wider political economy issues that can block positive reforms.
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Interrogating large-scale land acquisition and its implications for women’s land rights in Cameroon, Ghana and Uganda

Reports & Research
April, 2017
Cameroon, Ghana, Uganda, Sub-Saharan Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
food security
land grabbing
land rights
Large scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) impact women: loss of rights and access to land, water resources, fuel wood, adequate shelter, compensation and livelihood. The study looks at three sub-Saharan African countries (Cameroon, Ghana and Uganda) each having different land tenure regimes. Since land is vital for the survival of rural dwellers especially women, the study recommends that laws and policies governing the process of LSLA stress a mandatory participatory approach that includes women. There is urgent need to revalorize national laws to mainstream women’s land rights.
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Reducing concession size, adjusting business plans and developing more inclusive business models

Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa, Case Study 3

Reports & Research
March, 2020
Malawi, Mozambique, Western Africa, Ghana, Sierra Leone
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
community land rights
farmers
food security
land access
land conflicts
land investments
land ownership
land tenure
land use
local communities
scale
This paper is one of three thematic case studies resulting from a set of pilot projects undertaken jointly by civil society and private business partners from 2016–2019 in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa. These pilots sought to test how private companies could collaborate with civil society organisations and other stakeholders to implement responsible agribusiness investments that recognise and respect community land rights, and to develop innovative tools and approaches that could be adopted and implemented at greater scale.
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Reflections on Managing Natural Resources and Equitable Benefit Sharing in Kenya

Reports & Research
November, 2017
Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
local communities
natural resources management
This paper explores the concept of benefit sharing in natural resources exploitation in Kenya. The author argues that benefit sharing should be interpreted in its various forms, namely monetary and non-monetary since a narrower conception is likely to create confusion, potential conflict between investors and local communities as well as diminished hopes of improving the livelihoods of communities.
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Changes in in "customary" land tenure systems in Africa

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2006
Burkina Faso, Benin, Nigeria, Belgium, Rwanda, Mali, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Niger, Cameroon, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho, Uganda, Italy, Tanzania, Botswana, France, Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
property rights
customary law
customary tenure
farming systems
farmers
natural resources management
land governance
private ownership
land tenure
Indigenous Peoples
land tenure systems
land ownership
indigenous people's tenure
Across rural Africa, land legislation struggles to be properly implemented, and most resource users gain access to land on the basis of local land tenure systems.
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Gouvernance foncière et des ressources naturelles

Reports & Research
December, 2008
Burkina Faso, Benin, Nigeria, Mozambique, Gambia, Mali, Zimbabwe, Finland, Eswatini, Ghana, Malawi, Niger, Rwanda, Lesotho, Togo, Botswana, Senegal, Gabon, Kenya, Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land policies
customary tenure
sustainable land management
land governance
land tenure
Indigenous Peoples
land tenure systems
indigenous people's tenure
Document de travail sur les régimes fonciers 6. Ce document établit un état des lieux de la gouvernance foncière et des ressources naturelles en Afrique de l’ouest en confrontant les politiques, les législations et les pratiques des Etats avec des principaux standards et critères de bonne gouvernance. L’étude identifie les enjeux auxquels les Etats doivent faire face ; elle reconnaît également les bonnes pratiques et les initiatives entreprises en matière de la gouvernance de la tenure des terres et des ressources naturelles.
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Land access in the 21st century

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2006
Bangladesh, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Peru, Indonesia, Ghana, Venezuela, Guyana, Pakistan, Colombia, Mozambique, Jordan, Costa Rica, Philippines, South Africa, Nicaragua, Malaysia, Uganda, Botswana, India, China, Mexico, Brazil
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land policies
property rights
customary law
customary tenure
land governance
private ownership
land tenure
land access
Indigenous Peoples
land tenure systems
land ownership
indigenous people's tenure
The present paper seeks to cover the key issues, trends, constraints, challenges, knowledge gaps and policy options on a range of dimensions of land access. Land access is broadly defined as the processes by which people individually or collectively gain rights and opportunities to occupy and utilise land (primarily for productive purposes but also other economic and social purposes) on a temporary or permanent basis.