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A handbook on urban land markets for Africa

Piecing together an economic puzzle

Manuals & Guidelines
October, 2010
Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, Malawi, Lesotho, Botswana
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
land
land markets
urban areas
research
The handbook introduces key economic and related concepts explaining the functioning of urban land markets. By introducing key classical economic concepts, the handbook provides foundational economic terms that are often referred to in relation to urban land markets. In doing this, we do not imply that African land markets should or ought to 'fit' into neo-classical economic theories, nor do we propose that 'perfect' markets exist.
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Analyzing the Connection between Customary Land Rights and Land Grabbing: A Case Study of Zambia

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2023
Zambia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Investments
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
customary land rights
Since the global crises in the 2000s, many foreign and domestic actors have acquired large tracts of land for food and biofuel crop cultivation and other purposes in Africa, often leading to the displacement of the African people living on customary land. The weak customary land rights of ordinary African people have been viewed as one of the main factors making it possible for various land-grabbers to exploit customary land with different purposes.
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Analyzing the Connection between Customary Land Rights and Land Grabbing: A Case Study of Zambia

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2023
Zambia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Investments
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land law
Since the global crises in the 2000s, many foreign and domestic actors have acquired large tracts of land for food and biofuel crop cultivation and other purposes in Africa, often leading to the displacement of the African people living on customary land. The weak customary land rights of ordinary African people have been viewed as one of the main factors making it possible for various land-grabbers to exploit customary land with different purposes.
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Analyzing the Connection between Customary Land Rights and Land Grabbing: A Case Study of Zambia

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2023
Zambia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Investments
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land registration
Since the global crises in the 2000s, many foreign and domestic actors have acquired large tracts of land for food and biofuel crop cultivation and other purposes in Africa, often leading to the displacement of the African people living on customary land. The weak customary land rights of ordinary African people have been viewed as one of the main factors making it possible for various land-grabbers to exploit customary land with different purposes.
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Analyzing the Connection between Customary Land Rights and Land Grabbing: A Case Study of Zambia

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2023
Zambia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Investments
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land rights
Since the global crises in the 2000s, many foreign and domestic actors have acquired large tracts of land for food and biofuel crop cultivation and other purposes in Africa, often leading to the displacement of the African people living on customary land. The weak customary land rights of ordinary African people have been viewed as one of the main factors making it possible for various land-grabbers to exploit customary land with different purposes.
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Analyzing the Connection between Customary Land Rights and Land Grabbing: A Case Study of Zambia

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2023
Zambia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Investments
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land titling
Since the global crises in the 2000s, many foreign and domestic actors have acquired large tracts of land for food and biofuel crop cultivation and other purposes in Africa, often leading to the displacement of the African people living on customary land. The weak customary land rights of ordinary African people have been viewed as one of the main factors making it possible for various land-grabbers to exploit customary land with different purposes.
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Contemporary processes of largescale land acquisition by investors: Case studies from sub-Saharan Africa

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Africa
Land & Investments
land transfers
rural development
Rapid growth of emerging economies, emerging interest in biofuels as an alternative to fossil fuels and recent volatility in commodity prices have led to a marked increase in the pace and scale of foreign and domestic investment in landbased enterprises in the global South. Emerging evidence of the negative social and environmental effects of these large-scale land transfers and growing concern from civil society have placed ‘global land grabs’ firmly on the map of global land use change and public discourse. Yet what are the processes involved in these large-scale land transfers?
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Contestation, Confusion and Corruption: Market-Based Land Reform in Zambia

Reports & Research
November, 2005
Zambia, Africa
Land Conflicts
Land & Investments
land
land administration
displacement
land speculation
land reform
corruption
Following introductory historical sections, paper focuses on the impact of land-market reform at the village level – including the extent of conversions, conversions for elites, land speculation, displacement, enclosures, conflict and resistance – and on the (mal)administration of land. Concludes that the benefits of market-based land reform have accrued to local elites and outside investors. Land administration has proved highly malleable and is subject to perversion by local elites, traditional rulers, outside investors, and government officials.
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Custom, Law and Women’s Land Rights in Zambia

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2012
Zambia
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
advocacy
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
women
Most women in Zambia do not enjoy the same land rights as men. Zambia’s Lands Act provides support for women who hold statutory land, but the law does not apply to customary land. Most land is held under custom and most customary tenure systems do not provide women with significant land rights — even when they do, traditional institutions often do not effectively implement the rules.
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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.