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Energy and Food Demands, Drivers of Land Grab; A Case of Rufiji River Basin in Tanzania

Conference Papers & Reports
October, 2012
Tanzania
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
advocacy
agrarian reform
collective ownership
customary tenure
dispossession
land acquisitions
land conflicts
land dispute
land governance
land grabbing
Contemporary waves of large scale land acquisitions for commercial production in developing countries in Africa and other parts of the world have been branded as ‘land grabs’ by many scholars, media and activists. Some scholars have describe this phenomena as the “new scramble for Africa” (Moyo and Yeros, 2011). However, others have refuted such a description on the grounds that the current land deals are being negotiated by sovereign African states in the exercise of powers that they have under national laws (Odhiambo, 2011).
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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.
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Rural Agricultural Livelihood Survey

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Zambia
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
co-ownership rights
customary tenure
gender equity in access to land
indigenous peoples' land rights
women
The Rural Agricultural Livelihood Survey (RALS) is a new panel survey designed to obtain a comprehensive picture of Zambia’s small- and medium-scale farming sector using the 2010 census sampling frame. An earlier household panel survey for rural Zambia was the Supplemental Surveys (SS) of 2001, 2004 and 2008, which enabled the publication of a large set of important research outputs by IAPRI, Michigan State University and a range of Zambian and international partner organizations.
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Do the land-poor gain from agricultural investments? Empirical evidence from Zambia using panel data

Reports & Research
August, 2015
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
agricultural and rural legislation
customary land rights
customary tenure
In the context of the global land rush, some portray large-scale land acquisitions as a potent threat to the livelihoods of already marginalized rural farming households in Africa. In order to avoid the potential pitfall of studying a particular project that may well have atypical effects, this paper systematically investigates the impact on commercial farm wage incomes for rural smallholder households of all pledged investments in the agricultural sector in Zambia between 1994 and 2007.
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Customary land reform to facilitate private investment in Zambia: achievements, potentials and limitations

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agrarian reform
agricultural and rural legislation
community land rights
customary tenure
In the name of development, governments in southern Africa are reformulating land policies to facilitate privatisation of customary land rights. It is argued that this can stimulate land markets, (foreign) private investment, access to formal credit, and enhance security of tenure (by way of holding title), thereby leading to economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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Relationship between Large-Scale Agricultural Investors and Local Communities

Lessons from Two Investments In Zambia

Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2016
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agricultural and rural legislation
agriculture
customary land rights
customary tenure
rural development
Key points:
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Legal Pluralism and Tenure Security

Exploring the Relationship between Statutory and Customary Land Tenure in Zambia

Journal Articles & Books
February, 2016
Zambia
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
customary land rights
customary law
customary tenure
land administration
The purpose of the research is to: 1) investigate the interpretation of the sections in the Lands Act of 1995 that provide for the statutory recognition on one hand, and conversion of customary land, on the other; and 2) discuss the effects of the said sections on customary landholders. Methodologically, qualitative methods (largely in-depth interviews) were used to conclude that governments in sub-Sahara Africa are the architects of tenure insecurity because they (knowingly or otherwise) enact laws that are contradictory or conflicting in nature.
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The Role of Culture and Belief Systems in Shaping Customary Land Reform

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2014
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
customary land rights
customary law
customary tenure
In their quest for economic development through increased private investment, many developing countries are reformulating land policies to pave way for the transformation of communal land rights into private property. However, these customary land reform efforts have often been frustrated by indigenous people who feel such proposals threaten rural livelihoods and undermine the traditional political structures. Most of the research on this subject has focused on whether, how and/or to what extent the objectives of land reforms (e.g.
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Land and Governance under Fifth Scheduled Areas-An Overview of the law

Journal Articles & Books
February, 2016
India
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
customary law
community forestry
common lands
community land rights
land tenure systems
customary tenure
indigenous people's tenure
common property
Indigenous Peoples
women
This book made an attempt to bring together various legislative protections available to the tribals communities pertaining to the land and governance in the scheduled areas and the role of different institutions to achieve the goals enshrined in the Constitution. It examined the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution and its various provisions and special arrangements made for areas inhabited by Scheduled Tribes and the law relating to local self governance in these areas, primarily through village panchayat-an institution of local self governance.
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RESOLVING LAND DISPUTES IN POST-CONFLICT NORTHERN UGANDA

THE ROLE OF TRADITIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND LOCAL COUNCIL COURTS

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land Conflicts
common property
communal ownership
customary land rights
customary law
customary tenure
displacement
informal settlements
land administration
land policies
property rights
Post-conflict northern Uganda has witnessed an increase in disputes over land. This has, to a great extent, been as a result of the armed conflict and its aftermath. Beyond that, other chaotic factors embedded in various social, legal, economic, and political aspects of this society have influenced the nature, gravity, and dynamics of these disputes and the way in which Traditional Institutions and the Local Council Courts have attempted to resolve them.