Search results

Showing items 1 through 9 of 6.

Library Resource

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.
Library Resource

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.
Library Resource

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).
Library Resource

Land Matters II

Results from the Preliminary Impact Study of the ILGU Project’s work in Central Uganda

Reports & Research
April, 2021
Africa, Eastern Africa, Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land Conflicts
land administration
land documentation
land records
land register
cadastral register
cadastral administration
land titling
gender equity in access to land
food security
communal territory
land investments
land conflicts
land tenure
community land rights
customary tenure
tenure security
perception of tenure security
Improvement of Land Governance in Uganda (ILGU) is a project implemented by the German International Cooperation (GIZ), seeking to increase productivity of small-scale farmers on private Mailo land in Central Uganda, co-financed by the European Union and German Government through the German Federal Ministry for
Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Library Resource

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.
Library Resource

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.