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   Land Redistribution in South Africa

   A Critical Review

   Reports & Research

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   May, 2012

   South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa

   Urban Tenure

   Land & Food Security

   agrarian reform

   agriculture

   farmers

   farmland

   food security

   land administration

   land management

   land ownership

   land reform

   land rights

   land tenure

   land transfers

   land use

   landowners

   leases

   property rights

   rural areas

   rural development

   tenant farmers

   tenants

   urbanization

   This paper provides an overview of land reform in South Africa from 1994 to 2011, with the focus on the land redistribution. The government policies and associated implementation since 1994 have not generated expected social and economic results for a number of reasons. Even where land has been transferred, it appears to have had minimal impact on the livelihoods of beneficiaries, largely because of inappropriate project design, a lack of necessary support services and shortages of working capital, leading to widespread underutilization of land.

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   Wan Sip, Plante Kapten

   Land Leasing on Tanna Island, Vanuatu

   Reports & Research

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   May, 2012

   Vanuatu, Eastern Asia, Oceania

   Land & Investments

   agriculture

   decentralization

   land reform

   land speculation

   leases

   property rights

   The body of this report consists of five sections. Section one is an introduction to the JBE program and the context for the lease research on Tanna. Section two provides a profile of some of the relevant historical and economic features of the island and aspects related to the structure of governance and civil society organization. This is followed in section three by a summary of key findings regarding the 64 leases studied on Tanna.

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   To Buy or Lease? Farm Revival in Eastern and Central Europe

   August, 2012

   Europe

   Land & Investments

   agriculture

   farmland

   land markets

   land rights

   land titling

   land transfers

   leases

   private ownership

   property rights

   Buying, selling and mortgaging farmland
   are still rare in Eastern and Central Europe. Not
   surprisingly, given the level of risk in many of these
   countries, short-term transactions, especially leasing, are
   more common. These short-term transactions do almost as well
   as land sales in allocating resources. Making them more
   secure by improving simple registration and enforcement
   systems and increasing public access to information on what
   

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   Securing Property Rights in Transition : Lessons from Implementation of China's Rural Land Contracting Law

   June, 2012

   China

   Land & Corruption

   agrarian reform

   agriculture

   compensation

   corruption

   eminent domain

   farmers

   land administration

   land economics

   land reform

   land rights

   land tenure

   land use

   leases

   property law

   property rights

   rural development

   tenants

   transaction costs

   urban areas

   water rights

   This paper is motivated by the emphasis
   on secure property rights as a determinant of economic
   development in recent literature. The authors use village
   and household level information from about 800 villages
   throughout China to explore whether legal reform increased
   protection of land rights against unauthorized reallocation
   or expropriation with below-average compensation by the
   state. The analysis provides nation-wide evidence on a
   

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   Rural Land Certification in Ethiopia : Process, Initial Impact, and Implications for Other African Countries

   June, 2012

   Ethiopia

   Land & Investments

   agriculture

   common property

   compensation

   farmers

   land administration

   land grabbing

   land markets

   land ownership

   land registration

   land rights

   land titling

   land transfers

   land use

   leases

   property rights

   rural development

   Although many African countries have
   recently adopted highly innovative and pro-poor land laws,
   lack of implementation thwarts their potentially
   far-reaching impact on productivity, poverty reduction, and
   governance. The authors use a representative household
   survey from Ethiopia where, over a short period,
   certificates to more than 20 million plots were issued to
   describe the certification process, explore its incidence
   

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   Cultivate or Rent Out? Land Security in Rural Thailand

   June, 2012

   Thailand

   Land & Investments

   agriculture

   farmland

   forest land

   forestry

   land allocation

   land markets

   land ownership

   land reform

   land rights

   land titling

   land use

   landlessness

   landowners

   leases

   property rights

   squatters

   tenants

   In the 1980s the Thai government tried to legalize squatters by issuing special titles that restricted the sale and rental of the land. Using data from 2,874 farming households collected in 1997, the author finds that in places where these government titles where issued, leased plots are more likely to be titled than those that are self-cultivated. For these areas, he uses a model to estimate a 6 percent risk premium in the rental rate for untitled plots.

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   Kyrgyz Republic : Benefits of Securing and Registering Land for Development

   August, 2012

   Land & Corruption

   corruption

   farmers

   land administration

   land markets

   land rights

   leases

   property rights

   rural areas

   rural development

   transaction costs

   urban areas

   The project initially focused on
   building upon the 1998 Registration Law to develop
   registration procedures, and on getting the Legislative
   Reform Office (LROs) up and running. Cost, affordability,
   and quality of services were important considerations. The
   Project benefited from the country's high education
   levels and relatively low labor costs. Since independence in
   1991, the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic has sought to
   

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   Land Fragmentation, Cropland Abandonment, and Land Market Operation in Albania

   April, 2012

   Albania

   Land & Investments

   agrarian reform

   agriculture

   decentralization

   farmers

   farmland

   land administration

   land consolidation

   land markets

   land ownership

   land reform

   land speculation

   land tenure

   land transfers

   land use

   leases

   private ownership

   property rights

   rural development

   tenants

   transaction costs

   Albania's radical farmland
   distribution is credited with averting an economic crisis
   and social unrest during the transition. But many believe it
   led to a holding structure too fragmented to be efficient,
   and that public efforts to consolidate plots are needed to
   lay the foundation for greater rural productivity. This
   paper uses farm-level data from the 2005 Albania Living
   Standards Measurement Survey to explore this quantitatively.
   

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   Land Markets : Promoting the Private Sector by Improving Access to Land

   August, 2012

   land ownership

   land reform

   land titling

   land transactions

   land use

   land-use planning

   leases

   private ownership

   property rights

   zoning

   Land markets that allow access to
   land-and to buildings-through secure property rights, at
   transparent prices, and with efficient permitting processes
   and land tax systems are essential to a good business
   environment. Creating such markets, however, can be a long,
   complex, politically charged process, especially where most
   land is untitled and where there are conflicting claims. But
   experience points to practical interim or step solutions