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Broken Lands, Broken Lives? Causes, processes and impacts of land fragementation in the rangelands of Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Eastern Africa
Land & Investments
gender equity in access to land
land governance
food security
land policies
land grabbing
land rights
landlessness
land conflicts
common property
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
extractive industries
The report considers the causes, processes and impacts of rangeland fragmentation on pastoralists in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. Causes and processes include privatisation of resources, commercial investment, invasion of land by non-native plants, commercialisation including growth in individual enclosures, and conservation/National Parks. The impacts include increasing wealth divides and a growing inability to overcome and vulnerability to drought.
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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.
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Pillars of the community: How trained volunteers defend land rights in Tanzania

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Tanzania
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
displacement
gender equity in access to land
land allocation
land investments
land tenure
Training volunteers to help their communities defend their land rights has proved an effective approach for promoting land justice in Tanzania. This report documents how Hakiardhi, a Dar-es-Salaam based research institute working on land governance issues, has established and trained a 600-strong network of male and female ‘Land Rights Monitors’ (LRMs) operating in 300 villages on various aspects of the land law, so they can help people and local governments to exercise and ensure respect for their legal rights in land disputes.
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Land Rights Monitors and the Struggle for Land Rights in Agricultural Investment Areas

Experience from Tanzania

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2014
Tanzania
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
advocacy
agrarian reform
capacity development
communal ownership
community land rights
compulsory acquisitions
gender equity in access to land
land
land access
land investments
To ensure that there is sustainability at the community level in its land rights and governance training programme, Land Rights Research and Resources Institute (HAKIARDHI), a Tanzanian national level organization that spearheads land rights of small-scale producers, uses land rights monitors (LRMs) in its program areas. In each of the selected villages of the program districts, two LRMs (a man and a woman) who have received land rights training from HAKIARDHI are democratically elected by villagers.
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Application of Fiscal Instruments in Land Management

A Case Study of Kajiado County

Reports & Research
May, 2012
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
assessment
assignment (land)
cadastral administration
cadastral register
cadastres
capital value (land)
co-ownership rights
collateral (land)
collective ownership
common lands
common law
common rights
communal ownership
community land rights
compensation
compulsory acquisitions
concession (land)
control rights
customary land rights
deed registration
development
environment
gender equity in access to land
grazing land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
indigenous peoples' lands
indigenous people's tenure
investment funds
land access
land administration
land allocation
land deals
land distribution
land economics
land governance
land information systems
land investments
land loans
land markets
land ownership
land policies
land rent
land speculation
land tax
land tenure systems
land transactions
land transfers
property rights
public ownership
sustainable development
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
tenure regularization
title deeds
Torrens system
use rights
Fiscal instruments are tools that governments use to manage revenue and expenditure and therefore influence the growth (or stability) of the various sectors of the economy. Government revenue is derived primarily through taxation. In Kenya, land taxation has contributed less than 1% of government revenue for the past three years. The Sessional Paper No.
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Large Scale Land Acquisitions for Investment in Kenya

Is the participation, and benets of affected local communities meaningful, and equitable?

Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
December, 2016
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
alienation (land)
capital value (land)
communal ownership
community land rights
compensation
gender equity in access to land
indigenous peoples' lands
indigenous people's tenure
land access
land acquisitions
land administration
land allocation
land consolidation
land economics
land governance
land law
land management
land subdivision
land tenure
land tenure systems
land transactions
land valuation
local communities
natural resources management
regularization of illegal occupation
research
tenure security
Land acquisitions, either driven by foreign investments or domestic investment needs have continued to polarize opinions. When this research was proposed, it was premised on arguments by scholars Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Helen Markelova, who had analysed agricultural land deals, and argued that there were potentially two schools of thought about foreign acquisitions over agricultural land.
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Non-Citizens and Land Tenure in Kenya

Land Acquisition for Investment in a New Constitutional Era

Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
July, 2012
Africa, Kenya
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
compulsory acquisitions
formal tenure
gender equity in access to land
land access
land acquisitions
land governance
land investments
land tenure
land tenure systems
open access (land)
research
right of access
tenure security
statutory tenure
tenure regularization
The acquisition of land by foreigners in developing countries has emerged as a key mechanism for foreign direct investment (FDI). FDI is defined by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as the category of international investment that reflects the objective of a resident entity in one economy to obtain a lasting interest in an enterprise resident in another economy.
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Gender and equity questions in the policy and practice of involuntary resettlement due to the acquisition of land for large scale economic investments

A case study of two resettlement projects in Maputo Province, Mozambique

Reports & Research
January, 2017
Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land access
land investments
The NGO Centro Terra Viva (CTV) with funding from the World Resources Institute (WRI) implemented a project seeking to promote gender mainstreaming in the policies and practice of large scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) for economic investments. The study was centered on recognizing opportunities to strengthen the role and involvement of women as actors in decision-making in the resettlement process, particularly given the context of a growing economic and commercial appetite for land acquisition.
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Women, marriage and asset inheritance in Uganda

Reports & Research
April, 2011
Uganda, Africa
Land & Gender
land
women
Dowry (land)
gender equity in access to land
land access
Examines relationships between inheritance, marriage and asset ownership. Land the most important asset in rural Uganda. The majority of couples (both married and those in consensual unions) report owning land jointly. Men who report owning a parcel of land are much more likely than women to say they inherited it. Inheritance not an important means of acquisition of other assets, e.g. livestock, business assets, financial assets, consumer durables, which are acquired through purchase, for both men and women.