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Land tenure Security in selected countries: Synthesis Report

Reports & Research
February, 2014
Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Philippines, Thailand, Uganda, Zambia
community land rights
continuum in land rights
customary tenure
displacement
eviction
indigenous peoples' land rights
land access
land policies
land rights
open access (land)
tenure security
sustainable development
women
It is well recognized that secure land and property rights for all are essential to reducing poverty because they underpin economic development and social inclusion. Secure land tenure and property rights enable people in urban and rural areas to invest in improved homes and livelihoods. Although many countries have completely restructured their legal and regulatory framework related to land and they have tried to harmonize modern statutory law with customary ones, millions of people around the world still have insecure land tenure and property rights.
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Linking land governance and food security in Africa

Outcomes from Uganda, Ghana & Ethiopia

Reports & Research
August, 2016
Ethiopia, Ghana, Uganda
Land & Food Security
food security
land access
land governance
tenure security
sustainable development
As part of a F&BKP knowledge agenda on land governance and food security, LANDac organisedthree country-specific learning trajectories on land governance and food security in Uganda, Ghana and Ethiopia. This reflection paper brings together the main findings and outcomes to provide policy recommendations for improved land governance and food security in Africa.
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5. Implication of Increasing Land Value on Land Tenure Security: Experiences from Kalangala Oil Palm Growers Trust, Uganda - Paper

Reports & Research
March, 2016
Uganda
Land & Investments
tenure security
land access
land grabbing
extractive industries
palm oil industries
Implication of Increasing Land Value on Land Tenure Security: Experiences from Kalangala Oil Palm Growers Trust, Uganda
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9. Enhancing tenure security for local development through legal recognition and scaling up of participatory mapping of community forests under customary lands in Mangochi District in Malawi - Paper

Reports & Research
March, 2016
Malawi
tenure security
legal empowerment
customary tenure
land use mapping
land ownership
land access
Enhancing tenure security for local development through legal recognition and scaling up of participatory mapping of community forests under customary lands in Mangochi District in Malawi
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The Implementation of Rwanda’s Expropriation Law and Outcomes on the Population

Conference Papers & Reports
July, 2015
Rwanda
compensation
displacement
eviction
expropriation
tenure security
Rwanda is developing at a remarkably rapid pace, and with that development has come a multitude of corresponding changes to the orientation and use of land throughout the country. In light of these changes, law n°18/2007 of 19/04/2007 relating to expropriation in the public interest was adopted to provide clear procedures for the government to follow in the taking of privately-owned land for other uses deemed to be in the public interest.
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Policy Brief: The Implementation of Rwanda’s Expropriation Law and Outcomes on the Population

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2015
Rwanda
compensation
displacement
eviction
expropriation
tenure security
This Policy Brief summarizes the main findings and recommendations of qualitative and quantative research on implementation and outcomes of the 2007 Expropriation Law in Rwanda. Rwanda is developing at a remarkably rapid pace, and with that development has come a multitude of corresponding changes to the orientation and use of land throughout the country.
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Women’s Land Rights in Rwanda: How can they be protected and strengthened as the Land Law is implemented

Reports & Research
September, 2006
Rwanda
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
women
land inheritance rights
property rights
land policies
land dispute
land administration
land information systems
land tenure systems
tenure security
marital property rights
In Rwanda, two factors make land a highly important and contested issue. First,
Rwanda has the highest person-to-land ratio in Africa. This creates tremendous
pressure on land in a country where most of the population lives in rural areas, and
where agriculture remains the central economic activity. Second, Rwanda is recovering
from massive population shifts caused by decades of ethnic strife and the 1994 civil war
and genocide, which resulted in displaced populations and overlapping land claims.
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Drawing a line under the crisis: Reconciling returnee land access and security in post-conflict Rwanda

Reports & Research
July, 2006
Rwanda
Land Conflicts
land conflicts
land access
displacement
landlessness
tenure security
land ownership
This report is part of a broader comparative effort by As the author worked with colleagues in Rwanda,
two other important dimensions of the Rwandan
experience became clear. Refugee return and land
access in Rwanda has been an extraordinarily
complex matter, with some refugees leaving just in
time for others returning to take up their homes and
lands. Rwanda has important lessons to teach us
about the need to maintain flexibility in dealing with
complexity, and raises questions about whether
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Custodians of the land, defenders of our future

A new era of the global land rush

Reports & Research
September, 2016
Australia, Global, Honduras, India, Mozambique, Peru, Sri Lanka
Land & Investments
common lands
farmers
farming systems
gender equity in access to land
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
land deals
land grabbing
land investments
land rights
pastoral land rights
pastoralists
tenure security
women
Since 2009, Oxfam and others have been raising the alarm about a great global land rush. Millions of hectares of land have been acquired by investors to meet rising demand for food and biofuels, or for speculation. This often happens at the expense of those who need the land most and are best placed to protect it: farmers, pastoralists, forest-dependent people, fisherfolk, and indigenous peoples.
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Property Grabbing from Ugandan Widows and the Justice System

A mixed-methods assessment in Mukono County, Uganda

Reports & Research
December, 2014
Uganda
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
gender equity in access to land
land grabbing
land law
land policies
land tenure systems
property rights
tenure security
women
In a first study of this kind, International Justice Mission has used mixed methods assessment to portray the depth of widow and orphan property grabbing problem and lack of justice system response in Mukono County, Uganda. The report demonstrates that nearly a third of widows have experienced land grabbing with virtually no criminal justice system response.