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Food Security and Governance Factsheet: Afghanistan

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Afghanistan
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
title deeds
food security
land policies
land reform
rural areas
urban areas
conflicts
land rights
land dispute
customary tenure
religious tenure regimes
water rights
property rights
extractive industries
In Afghanistan, insecurity over land and water rights hampers investments in food production and irrigation. In rural areas, customary tenure systems, partly based on religious law, are the most relevant but suffer from weak recognition and offer little protection to rights holders. The land policy reform is on-going but remains slow. Moreover, land administration capacity is weak and improvements mostly take place in urban areas. In this context, land disputes are common and often violent.
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Relationship between Large-Scale Agricultural Investors and Local Communities

Lessons from Two Investments In Zambia

Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2016
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agricultural and rural legislation
agriculture
customary land rights
customary tenure
rural development
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Customary land reform to facilitate private investment in Zambia: achievements, potentials and limitations

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agrarian reform
agricultural and rural legislation
community land rights
customary tenure
In the name of development, governments in southern Africa are reformulating land policies to facilitate privatisation of customary land rights. It is argued that this can stimulate land markets, (foreign) private investment, access to formal credit, and enhance security of tenure (by way of holding title), thereby leading to economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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Do the land-poor gain from agricultural investments? Empirical evidence from Zambia using panel data

Reports & Research
August, 2015
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
agricultural and rural legislation
customary land rights
customary tenure
In the context of the global land rush, some portray large-scale land acquisitions as a potent threat to the livelihoods of already marginalized rural farming households in Africa. In order to avoid the potential pitfall of studying a particular project that may well have atypical effects, this paper systematically investigates the impact on commercial farm wage incomes for rural smallholder households of all pledged investments in the agricultural sector in Zambia between 1994 and 2007.
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Food Security and Land Governance Factsheet Kenya

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2015
Kenya
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
communal ownership
community land rights
food security
forest land
forest law
formal tenure
gender equity in access to land
indigenous peoples' land rights
indigenous peoples' lands
indigenous people's tenure
land access
land acquisitions
land administration
land allocation
land governance
land tenure
land tenure systems
private ownership
public ownership
tenure regularization
water management
water rights
youth
In Kenya, insecure land tenure and inequitable access to land, forest and water resources have contributed to conflict and violence, which has in turn exacerbated food insecurity. To address these interlinked problems, a new set of laws and policies on food security and land governance are currently being introduced or designed by the Government of Kenya. The new Food Security Bill explicitly recognizes the link between food security and land access, and the 2012 land laws target the corrupt system of land administration that made much of Kenya’s land grabbing possible.
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WOMEN LAND AND PROPERTY RIGHTS IN KENYA

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
communal ownership
community land rights
customary land rights
customary tenure
eviction
gender equity in access to land
land access
land administration
land inheritance rights
land management
land ownership
land tenure systems
local communities
tenure security
statutory tenure
women
While women’s rights to land and property are protected under the Kenyan Constitution of 2010 and in various national statutes, in practice, women remain disadvantaged and discriminated. The main source of restriction is customary laws and practices, which continue to prohibit women from owning or inheriting land and other forms of property.
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Implications of the Recent Land Reforms in Tanzania on the Land Rights of Small Producers

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2005
Tanzania
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
advocacy
agrarian reform
capacity development
formal tenure
indigenous peoples' land rights
land administration
land investments
land law
land reform
The land tenure system of Tanzania has passed through different historical milestones which form the basis for the analysis of the land tenure regime in general and tenure relations for land owners and users in particular in the past eight decades. The history dates back to 1923 when the British colonial legislative assembly enacted the Land Ordinance cap 113 to guide and regulate land use and ownership in Tanganyika which was their protectorate colony. Prior to this law, all the land in Tanzania was owned under customary tenure governed by clan and tribal traditions.
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No food security without land tenure security?

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2016
Laos
Land & Food Security
tenure security
farming systems
forest land
food security
land policies
land tenure systems
land governance
Secure tenure of farming and forest land is increasingly recognised as an important factor of household food security and nutritional status. This is borne out by a study by the Laotian Land Issues Working Group. It demonstrates mutual impacts, how government land-related policies affect the factors involved, and who the winners and losers are.