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‘No Resettlement Available’: An assessment of the expropriation principle and its impact on land reform in Namibia

Reports & Research
November, 2007
Namibia, Africa
land reform
land
assessment
farmers
expropriation
Contains introduction, 3 farms – the beginnings of land expropriation in Namibia; the Agricultural (Commercial) Land Reform Act 6 of 1995; the process of land reform in Namibia; the resettlement programme revisited; farm workers and resettlement; conclusions and recommendations. Argues that Namibia has to reconceptualise its agrarian model because the present land reform programme is setting impoverished black farmers up to fail.
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Women’s Property Rights, HIV and AIDS & Domestic Violence. Research Findings from Two Districts in South Africa and Uganda

Reports & Research
South Africa, Uganda, Africa
Land & Gender
property
women
property rights
research
To better understand the role of tenure security in protecting against, and mitigating the effects of, HIV and violence, this book explores these linkages in Amajuba, South Africa and Iganga, Uganda. Results from the qualitative study revealed that property ownership, while not easily linked to women’s ability to prevent HIV infection, can nonetheless mitigate the impact of AIDS, and enhance a woman’s ability to leave a violent situation.
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Women’s land rights in Southern Africa

Reports & Research
October, 2009
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
advocacy
community land rights
gender equity in access to land
The Women’s Land Rights in Southern Africa Project (WOLAR) is aimed at enhancing women’s access to, ownership of, control over land and other productive resources and services in order to meet their basic livelihood needs and become more economically independent and secure.
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Women’s Access to Land and Housing in Lesotho

Reports & Research
July, 2018
Lesotho
Land & Gender
Urban Tenure
capacity development
gender equity in access to land
housing rights
land inheritance rights
land law
land policies
land rights
research
women
Women need secure access to and control of land in order to realise their human rights. In order for the women to realise their land and inheritance rights it is important for the policy makers to have in place mechanisms and institutions to guide practice. This report sets out the status of women’s land and inheritance rights in Lesotho. The aim is to provide a consolidated baseline which can inform policy making, implementation and monitoring.
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Water harvesting for home food security

Journal Articles & Books
July, 2009
South Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
farming systems
food security
poverty
research
rural development
rural population
water management
Poverty in rural households have deepened in the past two years through world events: unprecedented rises in food and fuel prices were followed by global economic meltdown, all amidst growing climate uncertainty. Balancing water availability within and across growing seasons, water harvesting helps to buffer households against drought. Research on water harvesting in South Africa has focused on rural household livelihoods. Innovative results on appropriate water harvesting technologies and food security facilitation techniques are now being implemented in villages across South Africa.
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Voices of the poor

Access to urban land

Training Resources & Tools
January, 2010
South Africa
Urban Tenure
land
research
grassroots organizations
urban areas
poverty
land reform
This case study draws on research that investigated the perspectives and experiences of civil society organisations with regard to access to urban land by the poor. The research was conducted by Warren Smit, commissioned by Urban LandMark. An introduction to the case study is given below. On the back of this sheet some learning and reflection activities are provided. You can do these activities on your own or in groups, as appropriate for your learning session. Look carefully at these activities before you begin so you know what to look for while you are reading.
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Using local practices and records to secure individual tenure rights in common property situations

Lessons from the case studies on what might work on the ground.

Conference Papers & Reports
November, 2001
Africa, South Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
advocacy
communal ownership
community land rights
Communal tenure in South Africa has had rises and falls in favour. This section will look at the issue from a pragmatic perspective of choice. This involves assessing what issues inform whether South Africa can chose either to replace or to ignore communal tenure by analysing what is likely to remain the same politically, socially and economically for the foreseeable future and what the forces are changing this situation. This assessment then allows us to assert some practical, general principles that inform the two projects with which this paper is concerned.
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Urban LandMark debates improved access to urban land and property rights with DFID London

Reports & Research
January, 2013
Southern Africa
property law
land policies
research
Urban LandMark visited DFID London from 12 to 13 November 2012 to present the organisation' s recent work on and approach to improving access to urban land and property rights.The main objective of the visit was to showcase Urban LandMark's work, impact and lessons learnt over the last seven years to a broader, more global audience, as well as to a larger audience within DFID, Urban LandMark's main funder over the past six years.

Read more at http://www.urbanlandmark.org.za/newsletter/issue/0801/04.php
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Urban land markets in Southern African cities

Training Resources & Tools
January, 2011
Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Lesotho, Botswana
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
land
land markets
urban areas
research
housing rights
This case study draws on a regional study of urban land markets in southern Africa. The research was undertaken by Resetselemang Leduka of the National University of Lesotho, and commissioned by Urban LandMark and UN-HABITAT.
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Urban Land Dialogue Series 2018

Knowledge constructed in dialogue

Conference Papers & Reports
June, 2018
South Africa
Land Conflicts
Urban Tenure
Land in post-conflict settings
land
urban areas
research
expropriation
compensation
land policies
land law
land reform
land conflicts
informal property
In March 2018, The South African Cities Network (SACN) hosted its second Urban Land Dialogues Series in the provinces of Gauteng, Eastern Cape and Western Cape. The dialogues took place during a week when land was receiving widespread attention, as all eyes were on the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Illovo where the President had convened a Summit to discuss details of agrarian land expropriation without compensation policy,Under the overarching theme of inclusive urban land transformation, the aim of these dialogues was to build better shared understandings of the many issues that