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  1. Library Resource
    Formalising land rental transactions cover image

    Beneficial to smallholder farmers, particularly for vulnerable groups

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2017
    Ethiopia

    How LIFT promotes formalisation
     

  2. Library Resource
    Protection Against Eviction under the Extension of Security of Tenure Act: Legal Rules, Principles and Process cover image
    Manuals & Guidelines
    July, 2017
    South Africa

    This is a user-friendly guide that explains the rights of farm dwellers and the law in relation to evictions from farmland. It gives advice on how farm dwellers can navigate the legal processes involved in eviction proceedings and practically resist evictions. It is a resource for farm dwellers facing eviction from their homes, as well as for farm worker unions, community-based paralegals and lawyers. The guide was developed by SERI and the Commercial Stevedoring Agricultural and Allied Workers Union (CSAAWU).

  3. Library Resource
    Relocating to Alternative Accommodation: Legal and Practical Guidelines cover image
    Manuals & Guidelines
    July, 2017
    South Africa

    Relocations have the potential to severely disrupt peoples’ lives and negatively impact their livelihoods, community relations and sense of security. To make sure this doesn’t happen, the relocation process should be carefully planned, well-run and participatory. SERI developed this set of legal and practical guidelines to assist those involved in the relocation process to navigate the complexities involved in planning for and carrying out a relocation.

  4. Library Resource

    Commissioned report for High Level Panel on the assessment of key legislation and the acceleration of fundamental change, an initiative of the Parliament of South Africa

    Reports & Research
    July, 2017
    South Africa

    The report provides a brief history of farm labour in South Africa tracing its roots in slavery and colonial dispossession through to the emergence of state supported commercial agriculture and the subsequent deregulation of the agricultural sector. This is with a view to contextualising the examination of tenure security and identifying the impacts on people living and working on land owned by others. The report provides a scan of the legal reforms and measures instituted in the first decade of democracy in order to reverse the injustices of the past.

  5. Library Resource

    Commissioned report for High Level Panel on the assessment of key legislation and the acceleration of fundamental change, an initiative of the Parliament of South Africa

    Reports & Research
    July, 2017
    South Africa

    This review critically examines the evolution of laws, policies and practices across colonial, apartheid and contemporary eras to identify the associated processes and patterns of uneven development and their contribution to the structural poverty and systemic inequality and the ways in which these are manifested in space and place. The primary focus is on the effectiveness of policies and laws shaping land tenure and governance in the democratic era and the extent to which they have been able to engage with these spatially differentiated legacies in order to promote spatial justice.

  6. Library Resource
    Safeguarding Human Rights in Land Related Investments cover image

    Comparison of the Voluntary Guidelines Land with the IFC Performance Standards and the World Bank Environmental and Social Safeguard Framework

    Reports & Research
    July, 2017
    Global

    The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of national Food Security (VGGt) represent a new international legal instrument, which was adopted unanimously in 2012 by the United nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS). the Guidelines are a soft law instrument that does not create new, legally binding obligations for states or responsibilities for private actors, but that applies existing governance standards, particularly for human rights, to the management of land.

  7. Library Resource
    Role of Land Governance in Improving Tenure Security in Zambia: Towards a Strategic Framework for Preventing Land Conflicts cover image
    Journal Articles & Books
    August, 2017
    Zambia

    Zambia is one of the countries in Africa with a high frequency of land conflicts. The conflicts over land lead to tenure insecurity. In response to the increasing number of land conflicts, the Zambian Government has undertaken measures to address land conflicts, but the measures are mainly curative in nature. But a conflict sensitive land governance framework should address both curative and preventive measures.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2017
    Paraguay

    La historia de Che Jazmín remite a un caso más en el Paraguay, donde los campesinos sin tierra deben realizar una ocupación forzada para que las instituciones del Estado decidan comprar tierras a su favor. El nombre del Asentamiento se debe a la hija del dueño, quien decide venderle al Estado en vez de entregarla a extranjeros, por un precio mayor.

  9. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    August, 2017
    Southern Asia, India

    The stated objective of land policy in India has shifted from redistribution through land reform to ownership through land acquisition in the period between 1950 and 2014. Sub-national governments that dealt with land policy had the option to exercise a mix of redistribution and acquisition based on historical factors, social demands and political convictions. This paper makes two related arguments by tracing the path of land reforms in the states of India. The first is that there are four types of property regimes that emerged out of India at the sub-national level.

  10. Library Resource
    Assessment of land governance
    Journal Articles & Books
    August, 2017
    Zambia

    The purpose of the research is to assess the land governance system in preventing state land conflicts in Zambia. In order to obtain insights about the actual realities on the ground, based on a case study strategy (i.e. Lusaka District has a study area), the research examined the present status of state land governance system, and investigated the efficiency of the present state land governance system in preventing state land conflicts.

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