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Liveability Considerations: Towards Designing Sustainable Public Housing in Niger State, Nigeria

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2023
Nigeria
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
land access
land administration
land degradation
land information systems
land reform
land tenure
tenure security
This study investigates liveability in the context of sustainable public housing in Niger State Nigeria where existing housing efforts have fallen short of residents satisfaction Recognizing the critical link between liveability indicators and environmental sustainability this research aims to identify key liveability variables that could be integrated into the design and construction of sustainable public housing Employing a mixedmethod approach the study involved cluster sampling for selecting housing estates and units followed by the administration of 910 questionnaires containing 102 qu
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Focus on Africa

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1975
Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Algeria, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, South Sudan, Chad, Africa
land management
land reform
Library has French version: Dossier Afrique
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Land Acquisition and Use in Nigeria: Implications for Sustainable Food and Livelihood Security

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2019
Nigeria
Land Conflicts
land registration
land governance
land policies
land reform
land use
land acquisitions
land rights
land access
Land acquisition and use remain a critical issue of great policy relevance in developing countries such as Nigeria. This study therefore examined land acquisition and use in Nigeria within the context of food and livelihood security. The chapter used secondary data obtained from the World Bank website, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and other sources. It was found that there are gender, location and income-group considerations in the allocation of land in Nigeria.
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Nationalisation de terres et regime foncier dans le sud-ouest du Nigeria

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1986
Nigeria, Africa, Western Africa
land use
land reform
land tenure
Summarises the literature on the alleged defects of traditional systems of land tenure in Nigeria. Reviews the provisions of the land use decree and their implications for rural land tenure.
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Land nationalisation and rural land tenure in southwest Nigeria

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1986
Nigeria, Africa, Western Africa
land
land use
land reform
land tenure
Summarises the literature on the alleged defects of traditional systems of land tenure in Nigeria. Reviews the provisions of the land use decree and their implications for rural land tenure.
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Responsible Governance of Land Tenure: an essential factor for the realization of the Right to Food

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay, Suriname, Northern America, United States of America, Asia, Tajikistan, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Nepal, Europe
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
VGGT
land administration
land governance
food security
land policies
land reform
land-use planning
land management
forest land
land use
land
natural resources management
land markets
land economics
land transfers
land tax
land rights
land tenure
land ownership
Land Tenure Working Paper 15. This publication brings to light the existing linkages between land tenure and the realization of the right to food. It points out that responsible governance of land requires the adoption of human rights-based approach in order to develop coherent and long term solutions to improve people’s livelihoods. The document presents the legal implications of the right to food at national level and provides a series of examples on the implementation of human rights principles and obligations into land tenure systems, policies, and institutional frameworks.
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Una gobernanza responsable en la tenencia de la tierra: factor esencial para la realización del derecho a la alimentación

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Bangladesh, Honduras, Mali, Guatemala, Bolivia, Ghana, Malawi, Colombia, Thailand, Nigeria, Nepal, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Tanzania, Ecuador, Paraguay, Brazil, Suriname, Europe, Africa, Asia, Northern America
Land & Investments
Forest Tenure
land policies
food security
land management
land-use planning
natural resources management
land use
land administration
land economics
land tax
land rights
land markets
land transfers
forest land
land tenure
land reform
land governance
land ownership
land
Documento de trabajo sobre la tenencia de la tierra 15. Esta publicación presenta los vínculos que existen entre la tenencia de la tierra y la realización del derecho a la alimentación. Plantea que una gobernanza responsable de la tierra requiere un enfoque basado en los derechos humanos con el fin de implementar soluciones globales que resulten coherentes y efectivas a largo plazo.
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Pilot Land Reforms in Nigeria : Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast! …but Where Do We Start?

August, 2012
Nigeria
compensation
land administration
land reform
land tenure
land titling
land transactions
land use
urban areas
zoning
When it comes to strategy, the Chinese
have a saying: 'think big, start small, but move
fast.' This has been our guiding philosophy for the
pilot land reforms of the World Bank-Department of
International Development (DFID) sub national Investment
Climate Program (ICP) in Nigeria. The challenge was to find
a 'small' reform entry point from which to
'move fast' on this sensitive and difficult topic,
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Land Reform

January, 1970
Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Nigeria, Sweden, Turkey
land reform
land
property
This paper discusses the role of FAO support to the Government of Mozambiques Land Commission since 1995, through three consecutive projects. While each has had a relatively short duration, all have been planned and implemented within a single conceptual framework with a much longer time horizon. This has allowed a difficult and complex issue to be progressively developed and nurtured within a realistic time scale, while building up a strong sense of national ownership of the process.