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   Restoration of Land Rights of People Affected by Land Appropriations and Tenure Insecurity

   A case study based on five selected locations in Sri Lanka where the land rights of people have been violated due to land grabbing or tenure insecurity

   Reports & Research

   April, 2017

   Sri Lanka

   Land Conflicts

   land administration

   farmland

   rural areas

   agriculture

   conflicts

   land acquisitions

   land rights

   landlessness

   land dispute

   rural population

   This study is prepared using the data analysis of a field study conducted in January 2017 in the Districts of Monaragala, Ampara, Trincomalee, Mullaitivu and Jaffna in Sri Lanka focusing on the land rights violations that took place in the recent past due to the appropriation of land from the ordinary citizens by the security forces and individuals backed by powerful people and, the tenure security problems faced by the landless rural communities in Monaragala and Ampara districts and the sugar cane farmers living in the settlements of Pelwatta Sugar Company, which is now owned by the gover

2. Library Resource

   

   Sri Lanka : Land and Conflict in the North and East

   March, 2013

   Sri Lanka

   Land & Investments

   agriculture

   common property

   land administration

   land area

   land distribution

   land grabbing

   land improvement

   land management

   land markets

   land ownership

   land reform

   land rights

   land tenure

   land titling

   land transfers

   land use

   landlessness

   private ownership

   property rights

   tenants

   water rights

   This report analyzes land issues in Sri
   Lanka, which cannot be seen in isolation from the ethnic and
   political conflict and, at the same time, even though land
   conflict is often linked with the ethnic conflict in Sri
   Lanka, a large number of land conflicts in the North and
   East can be resolved prior to a full and national political
   solution to the ethnic situation. This report analyzes
   constraints and opportunities for an effective governance