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    Guatemala Country Brief: Property Rights and Land Markets

    Reports & Research
    March, 2003
    Latin America and the Caribbean, Guatemala
    land markets
    property rights

    In contrast to most Latin American countries with high land concentration, 1 Guatemala has been unwilling to consider re-distributive agrarian reform.2 One alternative proposed, therefore, for improving access to land for the rural poor is to make the land market more accessible. The following sections will describe Guatemala’s agrarian structure and land market, and assess the various land market programs implemented in Guatemala since the 1950s, focusing mainly on those undertaken in the 1980s and 90s. 

  2. Library Resource
    Terra Brasilis

    Sob o império da grilagem

    Journal Articles & Books
    June, 2017
    South America, Brazil
    Land Conflicts
    land law
    indigenous peoples' lands
    land grabbing
    property
    state property
    research

    O objetivo do artigo é compreender o período entre 1822 e 1850 como um momento da história brasileira em que se instituiu simultaneamente a absolutização da propriedade privada da terra e a legalização jurídica da grilagem de terra. O processo de monopolização das terras brasileiras que se realizou na primeira metade do século XIX reproduziu a grilagem como forma e conteúdo central da formação territorial do Brasil.

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    Successful Land Individualization in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia

    Successful Land Individualization in Trans-Caucasia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia

    Journal Articles & Books
    February, 2004
    Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
    land reform
    agrarian reform
    agriculture
    land markets
    land-based financing
    private ownership
    private property

    How do we measure the success of agrarian transformation? Land reform, in- terpreted in the transition context as privatization of land with the associated is- sues of land market development and the restructuring of traditional large farms, is only one facet of a multi-dimensional process of transition to a market-oriented agriculture. However important land reform is, success requires progress in all relevant dimensions.

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    Routes to change: rural women’s voices in land;climate and market governance in sub-Saharan Africa

    July, 2021
    Land & Investments
    Land & Food Security
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    land deals
    food security
    land
    property
    private sector
    scale

    A report by Global Agriculture examines the agricultural impact of multinational land deals (aka ‘land grabbing’) which are found to be directly harmful to local food security and livelihoods. It describes the phenomena as when: “These international investors;as well as the public;semi-public or private sellers;often operate in legal grey areas and in a no man’s land between traditional land rights and modern forms of property.

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    What are the Effects of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Africa on Selected Economic and Social Indicators?

    April, 2021
    Forest Tenure
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    Land & Gender
    land rights
    trust
    women
    property

    Explores what the Prindex 2020 dataset tells us about land rights in sub-Saharan Africa. One in four people in Africa live with the fear of being evicted day-to-day: one of the highest rates in the world. Across 34 countries surveyed in sub-Saharan Africa;a staggering 121 million people said they felt insecure. Compared to other regions of the world;people in sub-Saharan Africa place far less weight on legal documentation when considering how secure they feel in their rights.

  7. Library Resource

    Locked Out. How Unjust Systems are Driving Inequality in Uganda

    November, 2019
    Uganda
    Land & Investments
    Forest Tenure
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    land
    scale
    land acquisitions
    government
    private property
    expropriation
    foreign investment

    In advance of the release of the World Bank’s 2019 Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) report;the Oakland Institute exposes the Bank’s new scheme to privatize land in the developing world. It details how the Bank’s prescribed reforms;via a new land indicator in the EBA project;promotes large-scale land acquisitions and the expansion of agribusinesses in the developing world. Initiated as a pilot in 38 countries in 2017;the land indicator is expected to be expanded to 80 countries in 2019. The project is funded by the US and UK governments and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

  9. Library Resource

    Land Ownership and the Development of the Land Market in Georgia

    A Report Commissioned by Alliances KK and Undertaken by a Private Consultant

    Reports & Research
    December, 2013
    Georgia
    Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
    cadastres
    land register
    land registration
    land reform
    pastoral lands
    agriculture
    land markets
    land economics
    land rights
    control rights
    land ownership
    private ownership
    private property

    This report was produced by a private consultant Alexander Gvaramia a legal expert on land laws and issues and a member of the Swiss Development Cooperation funded Mercy Corps Georgia implemented Alliances Kvemo Kartli Programme, Helen Bradbury, a market development programme working in the dairy, beef and sheep value chains in Dmanisi, Tetritskaro and Tsalka municipalities of Kevmo Kartli. The International Centre for Conflict Negotiation (ICCN) a partner of Alliances KK was responsible for facilitating the concept and production of the report.

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