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The Legal Regime and Political Economy of Land Rights Of Scheduled Tribes in the Scheduled Areas of India

Reports & Research
March, 2018
India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
indigenous peoples' lands
land acquisitions
customary land rights
legal empowerment
This Report is the outcome of a deep commitment on part of the Land Rights Initiative research team to create systematic knowledge on land issues in India with a view to meaningfully evaluating legal and policy initiatives that can contribute to creation of more equitable land regimes for all. The Report has been in the making for five years and yet remains a work in progress. The dismal plight of the Scheduled Tribes in India is the result of complex current and historical, institutional,social, political, and economic dynamics that have been difficult for us to assess in their totality.
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Rangelands: Conservation and “Land Grabbing” in Rangelands: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mongolia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land acquisitions
land rights
land tenure
land tenure
land tenure systems
land use
rangelands
Large-scale land acquisitions have increased in scale and pace due to changes in commodity markets, agricultural investment strategies, land prices, and a range of other policy and market forces. The areas most affected are the global “commons” – lands that local people traditionally use collectively — including much of the world’s forests, wetlands, and rangelands. In some cases land acquisition occurs with environmental objectives in sight – including the setting aside of land as protected areas for biodiversity conservation.
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Ahmedabad: Town Planning Schemes for Equitable Development — Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

Reports & Research
August, 2018
India
Urban Tenure
informal settlements
land access
land acquisitions
land readjustment
land-use planning
urban areas
This case study in the World Resources Report, “Towards a More Equal City,” examines transformative urban change in Ahmedabad, India, by analyzing the land pooling and readjustment mechanism called Town Planning Scheme (TPS). This paper reviews the evidence on whether the TPS mechanism has enabled transformative change with equitable outcomes in Ahmedabad City—and if so, how.
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Property Regimes in India: A Study of Political Determinants of Structural Factors

Journal Articles & Books
August, 2017
Southern Asia, India
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
alienation (land)
compensation
conflict of interest
displacement
eviction
The stated objective of land policy in India has shifted from redistribution through land reform to ownership through land acquisition in the period between 1950 and 2014. Sub-national governments that dealt with land policy had the option to exercise a mix of redistribution and acquisition based on historical factors, social demands and political convictions. This paper makes two related arguments by tracing the path of land reforms in the states of India. The first is that there are four types of property regimes that emerged out of India at the sub-national level.
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WHAT IS PREVENTING WOMEN FROM INHERITING LAND? A STUDY OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE HINDU SUCCESSION (AMENDMENT) ACT 2005 IN THREE STATES IN INDIA

Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2014
India
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land acquisitions
land inheritance rights
land rights
property
women
March 2014 – Inheritance is the overwhelming way land is acquired in India, but societal practices exclude women from inheriting land. The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act 2005, an inheritance law that covers 83.6% of the population of India, corrected some fundamental inequalities in the law bringing the women in equal status to men in the right to inherit land. However, eight years after its enactment, the ground reality is that women still do not inherit land on an equal basis with men.
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Midcourse Manoeuvres: Overview of Community Strategies and Remedies for Natural Resource Conflicts in India, Indonesia and Myanmar

Reports & Research
June, 2018
Indonesia, Myanmar, Southern Asia, India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
community land rights
development
extractive industries
land acquisitions
land conflicts
land dispute resolution
land grabbing
land policies
land rights
land transfers
land use
legal empowerment
mining
Land transformation has been at the centre of the economic growth of post-colonial Asia. In the 1990s, many Asian countries embraced economic liberalization and speculative business interests in land began to replace the state’s control of land for developmental purposes. The growing demand for land by corporations and private investors has fuelled several regional land rush waves in Asia, bringing them directly in conflict with communities that require these lands for their occupations and survival.
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LAND ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT INDUCED DISPLACEMENT: INDIA AND INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORK

Reports & Research
December, 2016
India
Land & Investments
displacement
land acquisitions
legal pluralism
This paper will critically examine the inter relation between land acquisition, development and displacement. In addition, this paper analyses the rights of displaced under Indian and international laws with special reference to recent states different legislation on land acquisition. The present paper also try to consider the impact on land acquisition on displaced people and identifies loopholes in the existing legal framework and propose certain measure for bringing real development in to the life of displaced people.
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Access to Land in Rural India: Policy Issues and Options

Reports & Research
May, 1999
India
land access
land allocation
land markets
land transfers
This is a working paper. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overall framework for the critical assessment of alternative approaches to improving access to land by the rural poor in India , as part of a broader strategy for reducing poverty through rural growth. Viewing persistent constraints on access to land in their historical context, the paper considers India’s record in implementing land reforms, and identifies the elements of a new, complementary approach to improving access to land by the rural poor.
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Development Challenges in Extremist Affected Areas

REPORT OF AN EXPERT GROUP TO PLANNING COMMISSION

Reports & Research
April, 2008
India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
conflict of interest
land access
land acquisitions
The brief review in the repor concludes of various disturbing aspects of the socio-economic context that prevails in large parts of India today, and that may (and can) contribute to politics such as that of the Naxalite movement or erupt as other forms of violence. It should be recognized that there are different kinds of movements, and that calling and treating them generally as unrest, a disruption of law and order, is little more than a rationale for suppressing them by force.
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Report on Functioning of PESA in Odisha

Reports & Research
January, 2013
India
Forest Tenure
land access
land acquisitions
land law
RCDC assigned a task of compiling a report on the functioning of PESA in the state of Odisha based both on secondary analysis and primary survey at field level, to a local consultant organization National Institute for Development Innovation(NIDI) in late 2010. Agreeing with our observation that the report submitted under the same required further improvements and enrichments the consultant made fresh efforts in 2011 and submitted an improved version of the same without any extra charges.