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The Dynamics Of Land Deals in Africa

Videos
February, 2017
Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia
Land & Investments
farmers
land access
land deals
land governance
land investments
land law
land tenure systems
natural resources management
tenure security
women
youth
Looking at several large-scale land deals in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia, this extraordinary documentary highlights the nuanced impacts of these investments. Small-scale farmers and producers, national government officials, and African policy-makers unpack the deals, showing that there are winners and losers when providing investors access to large tracts of land in Africa. For example, land deals impact differently on women and youth, and altering land regimes also impacts on access to other natural resources such as water, fish, and local indigenous vegetables.
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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.
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Building Evidence on Rural Women Struggles for Land Rights in Tanzania

The Quest for Knowledge, Recognition and Participation in Decision Making Processes

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2017
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
capacity development
displacement
land acquisitions
land rights activists
natural resources management
rangelands
right of access
women
Land is one of the terrains of struggle for most rural women in Africa because of its importance in sustaining rural livelihoods, and social-cultural and geopolitical factors that hinder women from enjoying land rights. Even when there are progressive land laws, as it is for Tanzania, women have not really enjoyed their rights. However, this has not stopped women to keep fighting for their land rights. They have sought their own approaches by leveraging opportunities within traditional, religious, and formal systems standing for their rights.
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AZN Association Zoramb Naagtaaba Programme Santé Sougrinoma de Guiè/ Rapport d'activités 2016

Reports & Research
May, 2017
Burkina Faso
food security
management rights
Description
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Written Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act, 2017.

Legislation
February, 2017
Tanzania
land
land access
land acquisitions
land administration
An Act to amend certain written laws.
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In Search of the Solution to Farmer–Pastoralist Conflicts in Tanzania

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2017
Tanzania
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
advocacy
agriculture
agropastoral systems
land access
land conflicts
pastoral land rights
pastoral lands
pastoralists
Land-use conflict is not a new phenomenon for pastoralists and farmers in Tanzania with murders, the killing of livestock and the loss of property as a consequence of this conflict featuring in the news for many years now. Various actors, including civil society organisations, have tried to address farmer–pastoralist conflict through mass education programmes, land-use planning, policy reforms and the development of community institutions. However, these efforts have not succeeded in the conflict.
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Understanding changing land access and use by the rural poor in Ghana

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2017
Ghana
customary land rights
farmers
farmland
land access
land tenure systems
local communities
poverty
rural areas
rural development
rural population
tenure security
In Ghana 70 per cent of the population are smallholder farmers who depend on the land for their basic needs. Growing competition for this resource is having significant impacts on rural livelihoods and governance as land changes hands. This study highlights the key drivers of pressure on rural land and their communities, such as population growth, urbanisation and acquisition of land by new actors, including government and business.
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Género e relações de poder na região sul de Moçambique

Uma análise sobre a localidade de Mucotuene na Província de Gaza

Journal Articles & Books
April, 2017
Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agricultural land management
agriculture
gender equity in access to land
land access
land management
rural areas
rural development
rural population
sustainable development
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
women
Nos últimos anos os estudos sobre relações de género têm gerado muitos debates, principalmente quando o tema está associado ao meio rural, onde os processos de mudança e de aceitação de transformações de atitudes e comportamentos estão relacionados com a iliteracia, os costumes, tabus, bem como com a divisão social do trabalho configurados por relações de poder marcadas por desigualdades.
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Securing land inheritance and land rights for women in Kenya

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
co-ownership rights
collective ownership
common lands
common rights
communal ownership
community land rights
gender equity in access to land
land access
land governance
land inheritance rights
land ownership
land tenure
land tenure systems
land use
land use mapping
local communities
matrilineal lineage
private ownership
right of access
sustainable land use
tenure regularization
urban areas
Women face many problems with regard to land inheritance and land rights in Kenya. Individual and community land ownership do not favour women. The reason for this is that ownership of land is patrilineal, which means that fathers share land amongst sons, while excluding daughters. This practice is traditionally widespread and partly accepted although it goes against the interest of women and is prohibited by the constitution.
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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.