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Property Rights and Resource Governance Guatemala

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Latin America and the Caribbean, Guatemala
Land & Investments
Land in post-conflict settings
land governance
property law
agrarian reform
land conflicts
In Guatemala, a history of discrimination and inequality of opportunity led to a 36-year conflict that finally subsided with a Peace Agreement in 1996. Improvements since then have prevented a return to conflict and begun to create the conditions for sustained stability. However, the persistence of substantial inequality constitutes a risk factor for future stability and constrains Guatemala’s growth potential. Land distribution is highly unequal. The largest 2.5% of farms occupy nearly two-thirds of agricultural land while 90% of the farms are on only one-sixth of the agricultural land.
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Conciliatory whiteness: white farmers’ accommodations and responses to land reform in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2020
Zimbabwe
Land in post-conflict settings
land reform
This article seeks to contribute to growing academic literature on land reform and whiteness in Zimbabwe, where there have been calls for nuance in the analysis of agrarian change. The research which underpins it explores differentiated responses to land reform on the part of a sample of white farmers (as well as A1 and A2 beneficiaries), in the environs of Matobo district, Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe. It characterises a range of responses on the part of white farmers – dropping out, pushing back, accommodating and adapting – and charts the various outcomes of these strategies.
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Land Professionals in the Arab region. Roles, capacities and contribution to land governance and land tenure security

Reports & Research
May, 2023
Global
land administration
land policies
land reform
land tenure systems
land stakeholders
A functioning land sector is foundational to peace and stability, sustainable development, economic growth, food security, environmental conservation and poverty reduction in the Arab region. Effective and fit-for-purpose land administration is an important precondition for the functioning of the land sector and the foundation for good land governance.
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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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Geoinformation Technologies in Land Management and Beyond: Case of Georgia

Conference Papers & Reports
October, 2006
Georgia
land administration
land records
cadastres
geographical information systems
land registration
land surveying
land reform
agrarian reform
land transfers
private ownership
Introduction of geoinformation technologies for building up a modern land management system in Georgia goes back to mid-1990s. This has been stimulated by start of land reform resulting in privatization of over 3 million agricultural land plots in whole in the entire country. These new properties were to be properly surveyed, registered and recorded in a newly established cadastral system with the aim of launching free market transactions.
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We Belong to the Land

10 Years of the Tenure Guidelines: States Must Address Rising Inequalities and Enact Agrarian Reform to Realize the Right to Land - International Statement

Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2022
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
VGGT
land equity
gender equity
poverty
land reform
agrarian reform
land rights
dispossession
community land rights
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (Tenure Guidelines), we, organizations of small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, workers, urban communities and civil society, underline the critical importance of land, fisheries and forests for achieving social, environmental, gender and intergenerational justice, and demand that States, the FAO and the entire UN system comply with their obligations to realize the right to land.
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Pastoral property rights in Central Asia

Factors and actors driving the reform agenda

Journal Articles & Books
July, 2017
Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land law
land reform
agrarian reform
land management
pastoral lands
natural resources
natural resources management
pastoral land rights
tenure security
property
pastoralists
This paper examines the roles of the state, international organisations and the public in pastoral land reform in the Central Asian republics and Mongolia. In recent years new legislation has been passed in most of these countries, often driven by environmental concerns. In the development of these laws, international organisations tend to promote common property regimes, whilst governments usually emphasise individual security of tenure, each using environmental arguments taken from quite different bodies of theory.
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Rural Livelihoods in Three Mountainous Regions of Tajikistan

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2007
Tajikistan
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
poverty
land reform
agrarian reform
livestock
agriculture
migration
This article uses data from household income surveys to look at income structures amongst households in three mountainous regions of Tajikistan: Gorno-Badakhshan, the Rasht Valley and Eastern Khatlon. The structure of incomes demonstrates the dominant role of subsistence agriculture in all three regions although commercial agriculture is important amongst better-off households in Rasht. Relationships between poverty and household characteristics including access to capital, demographic variables and income-generating activities were examined.
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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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Development of the Land Market in the Republic of Kazakhstan

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Kazakhstan
Land & Investments
land reform
agrarian reform
land use
agricultural land management
agriculture
land use change
land markets
land investments
land ownership
private ownership
The paper provides the analysis of improving the land reform in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The authors examine the main development stages of land ownership relations, during which the work has been performed to transform agricultural enterprises, privatize land and change the land use. The main legal acts, intended to regulate the issues of land ownership and territorial organization and creating conditions for the development of the land market, are shown.