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Aligning and Harmonizing the Livestock and Land Policies of Tanzania

Reports & Research
December, 2011
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
agrarian reform
agricultural and rural legislation
agropastoral systems
communal ownership
community land rights
customary land rights
farming systems
grazing land rights
legal pluralism
In light of persisting land use conflicts and marginal productivity on village lands, a research in the captioned topic was deemed necessary. This report makes a review of policies on land and livestock agriculture behind the backdrop of the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania, policies on land and agriculture, and aspirations for land reform. Violations in land rights and prevailing tenure insecurity lasting for decades have skewed mindsets of many users and the land administrators. Policy implementation and enforcement are in dire need of enhancement.
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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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Community and government: planning together for climate resilient growth

Issues and opportunities for building better adaptive capacity in Longido, Monduli and Ngorongoro Districts, northern Tanzania

Reports & Research
September, 2014
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
climate change
communal ownership
community land rights
customary land rights
customary law
environment
Indigenous Peoples
land governance
pastoral land rights
Planning for climate resilience growth is increasingly important for the natural resource dependent economy of Tanzania. Central government does not have the knowledge, reach, skills or resources needed to plan for the range of livelihoods within Tanzania; but local governments, if granted the authority and resources, could plan with communities in the flexible, timely and appropriate manner that climate variability demands.
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Customary Land Recognition: Zambian Approach to Documentation and Administration

Reports & Research
December, 2018
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
common lands
common law
common property
common rights
commons
communal ownership
customary land rights
customary law
customary tenure
forest land
land administration
land rights
natural resources management
From January 15 to February 6, 2018, the USAID’s Tenure and Global Climate Change Program and Land Portal Foundation co-facilitated a dialogue on experiences of documenting household and community-level customary rights in Zambia. The dialogue brought together the perspectives of government, traditional leaders, practitioners, civil society, and academics to consider how customary land documentation can contribute to national development goals and increased service delivery in rural and peri-urban areas.
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From Risk and Conflict to Peace and Prosperity

The urgency of securing community land rights in a turbulent world

Reports & Research
February, 2017
Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, China, Indonesia, India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
gender equity in access to land
common lands
communal territory
indigenous peoples' lands
common rights
commons
indigenous peoples' land rights
communal ownership
indigenous people's tenure
common property
Indigenous Peoples
women
Amid the realities of major political turbulence, there was growing recognition in 2016 that the land rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities are key to ensuring peace and prosperity, economic development, sound investment, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Despite equivocation by governments, a critical mass of influential investors and companies now recognize the market rationale for respecting community land rights.
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Governance in Mining Areas in Tanzania with Special Reference to Land Issues

Reports & Research
December, 2012
Tanzania
Land & Investments
communal ownership
displacement
dispossession
extractive industries
formal tenure
land access
land conflicts
land investments
land ownership
natural resources management
research
The economies of many countries such as the Gulf and Southern African States are to a considerable extent sustained by financial flows from extraction of mineral resources and fossil fuels. The discovery of such fortunes, in sufficiently viable quantities, can be a significant national blessing for effectively addressing development challenges. However, experience in other countries has shown that financial resources obtainable from mineral and fossil fuel extraction – the Extractive Industry, have not always assisted economic and social development.
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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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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
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
advocacy
agricultural land management
assessment
cadastral administration
capital value (land)
co-ownership rights
collateral (land)
common property
communal ownership
compensation
continuum in land rights
control rights
deed registration
development
development agencies
estate management
formal tenure
informal property
land access
land acquisitions
land administration
land deals
land economics
land governance
land investments
land loans
land management
land markets
land policies
land registration
land rent
land speculation
land tax
land tenure systems
land transactions
land transfers
land use
open access (land)
property rights
research
right of access
rural development
sustainable land management
use rights
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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Power and Vulnerability Land Dispute Resolution

Evaluating Responses to Domestic Land Grabbing in Northern Uganda

Reports & Research
May, 2014
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Conflicts
adjudication
co-ownership rights
collective ownership
common property
communal ownership
customary land rights
displacement
indigenous peoples' land rights
land dispute
land dispute resolution
Unfolding analysis reveals two types of land disputes prevalent in postwar northern Uganda: cases that involve a legitimate cause of action and those that do not.1 Since mediation and alternative forms of dispute resolution rely on parties’ willingness to negotiate in good faith, cases featuring ‘bad faith’ and land grabbing—where powerful parties intentionally exploit another person’s vulnerability in order to illegally2 claim land—pose a serious challenge for local land dispute mediators. Such mediators must wrestle with whether and how to remain neutral in the face of injustice.