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Understanding, preventing and solving land conflicts: A practical guide and toolbox

Training Resources & Tools
April, 2017
Global
Land in post-conflict settings
land administration
land governance
land rights
land access
land conflicts
land tenure
tenure security
This guide is intended for practitioners who are confronted with land conflicts in the course of their work or are in a position to prevent them and/or include land governance as one pillar in their policies. It aims to broaden the understanding of the complexity of causes that lead to land conflicts in order to provide for better-targeted ways of addressing such conflicts, and provides a number of tools with which to analyse land disputes. In addition, this guidebook discusses a wide variety of options and tools for settling ongoing land conflicts and for preventing new ones.
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Conflictos territoriales en San Martín: Diagnóstico y análisis de superposiciones y otros obstáculos a la titulación y gestión territorial de comunidades nativas (a diciembre de 2016)

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2018
South America, Peru
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Conflicts
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
land access
land dispute
land titling
Desde 2016, luego de una década de pocos avances en la titulación de comunidades nativas (CCNN), varios proyectos de la cooperación internacional vienen brindando apoyo para el cumplimiento del compromiso del Estado peruano con los pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía. Estos proyectos de cooperación financiera y técnica colaboran con el Ministerio de Agricultura y Riego (MINAGRI), como ente rector, y con las Direcciones Regionales Agrarias (DRA), como entidades ejecutoras.
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Land tenure in rural lowland Myanmar

From historical perspectives to contemporary realities in the Dry Zone and the Delta

Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
October, 2017
Myanmar
land administration
land registration
land titling
land governance
land policies
land reform
land management
farmland
agriculture
land
land loans
landlessness
land access
land conflicts
land tenure
tenure security
advocacy
farmers
landowners
This study emerged out of an identified need to document social processes leading to land insecurity, and those leading to investment and sustainable use of lands by rural populations. Focusing on the Delta and Dry Zone, the main paddy producing regions of Myanmar, this analysis unravels the powers at play in shaping rural households’ relationship to land.
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Land for infrastructure development: compulsory acquisition and compensation of unregistered/undocumented land in Kenya

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Kenya
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
cadastral administration
cadastral register
capital value (land)
communal ownership
compensation
compulsory acquisitions
deed registration
displacement
eminent domain
land administration
land dispute
land dispute resolution
land governance
land investments
land ownership
land registration
land titling
land use
land valuation
management rights
natural resources management
research
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
title deeds
women
youth
Kenya’s Vision 2030 aims at transforming the country into a newly industrialized middle income country

and infrastructural development is high on the agenda to achieve this. Competing land uses and existing

interests in land make the use of eminent domain by government in acquiring land inevitable. However

most of the land earmarked for compulsory acquisition comprises of un- registered land whose interests
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USAID Report on Land Tenure & Cocoa Production in Ghana

A CRIG/WCF Collaborative Survey, February 2017

Reports & Research
April, 2017
Ghana
boundaries
gender equity in access to land
land inheritance rights
customary law
land use
agricultural land management
agriculture
land
alienation (land)
encroachment
collateral (land)
land access
control rights
land conflicts
farm tenancy
community land rights
customary land rights
customary tenure
farmers
rural population
women
The Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), with support from the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), performed the Ghana Land Tenure Baseline Survey, the first of its kind survey of tenure rights among cocoa farmers in Ghana. CRIG surveyed almost 1,800 cocoa farmers operating 3,900 cocoa plots regarding various land tenure issues within customary sharecropping arrangements and on owner-managed land. This report describes the findings from the Survey.