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Securing Community Land Rights: Priorities and Opportunities to Advance Climate And Sustainable Development Goals

Policy Papers & Briefs
October, 2017
Global, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
climate change
community land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
land conflicts
land registration
Legally recognized and secure land and resource rights are fundamental to the advancement of global peace, prosperity, and sustainability. From the development of human cultures to the realization of democracy itself, tenure security underpins the very fabric of human society and our relationship to the natural environment. Today, insecure tenure rights threaten the livelihoods and wellbeing of a third of the world’s population, and with it, the very future of our planet.
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USAID Report on Land Tenure & Cocoa Production in Ghana

A CRIG/WCF Collaborative Survey, February 2017

Reports & Research
April, 2017
Ghana
boundaries
gender equity in access to land
land inheritance rights
customary law
land use
agricultural land management
agriculture
land
alienation (land)
encroachment
collateral (land)
land access
control rights
land conflicts
farm tenancy
community land rights
customary land rights
customary tenure
farmers
rural population
women
The Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), with support from the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), performed the Ghana Land Tenure Baseline Survey, the first of its kind survey of tenure rights among cocoa farmers in Ghana. CRIG surveyed almost 1,800 cocoa farmers operating 3,900 cocoa plots regarding various land tenure issues within customary sharecropping arrangements and on owner-managed land. This report describes the findings from the Survey.
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Gendered impact of commercial pressures on land

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2017
Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agrarian reform
capital value (land)
common property
gender equity in access to land
land access
land rights
This gender study forms part of the International Land Coalition’s ‘Commercial Pressures on Land Initiative’ Global Study. As stated by the International Land Coalition (ILC), the goal of this initiative is to support the efforts of ILC members and other stakeholders to influence global, regional and national processes on land to enable secure and equitable access to land for poor women and men in the face of increasing commercial demand for land (ILC 2010a, emphasis added).
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Re-establishing an Asset Base and Protecting Access to Productive Resources in Post-Conflict areas of Northern Uganda

Paper prepared for presentation at the “2016 WORLD BANK CONFERENCE ON LAND AND POVERTY”

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2017
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Conflicts
agrarian reform
community land rights
customary tenure
indigenous peoples' land rights
Northern Uganda is currently recovering from a 20-year long civil war that left the area in ruins. One of the groups, the Lord’s Resistance Army, orchestrated brutal mass murders and abductions forcing nearly two million people to live internally displaced people’s (IDP) camps for over 10 years. The war particularly affected the people of Acholi and Lango sub-regions which had previously suffered sporadic attacks by armed Karamajong cattle rustlers from north eastern Uganda.
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Understanding changing land access issues for the rural poor in Uganda

Reports & Research
May, 2017
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agrarian reform
co-ownership rights
collective ownership
common property
communal ownership
indigenous peoples' land rights
land conflicts
land use
The ways in which people obtain land in Uganda are changing fast. Land that used to be secured through inheritance, gifts or proof of long-term occupancy is now more commonly changing hands in the market. Those with wealth and powerful connections are frequently able to override local rules and gain access to land at the expense of poorer individuals. Government-backed agribusiness investors receive large areas of land with benefits for some local farmers who are able to participate in the schemes, while other smallholders see their land access and livelihoods degraded.
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LAND TENURE AND ITS IMPACTS ON FOOD SECURITY IN UGANDA

EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM TEN DISTRICTS

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2017
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
agrarian reform
agricultural land management
agriculture
co-ownership rights
community land rights
food security
land access
land governance
The need to establish the link between land tenure and food security is increasingly gaining currency as governments and development organizations refocus their effort towards assisting farmers to move away from subsistence farming to commercial agriculture. It is argued that given how land plays a crucial role in the livelihoods of most Africans, food security and poverty reduction cannot be achieved unless issues of access to land, security of tenure and the capacity to use land productively and in a sustainable manner are addressed.
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Constitutional Amendment Bill to the Article 26 of the Uganda Constitution

Insights and challenges from field practice of land conflicts.

Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2017
Uganda
Land & Investments
adjudication
agrarian reform
compensation
compulsory acquisitions
land acquisitions
land law
A constitutional amendment bill has been tabled before Parliament with the primary aim of overhauling the Constitutional Right to Protection from deprivation of property (Article 26).
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Catching up with the fast pace of land access change in Uganda

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2017
Uganda
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agrarian reform
common property
community land rights
compulsory acquisitions
land access
land acquisitions
land conflicts
land governance
The ways in which people obtain land in Uganda are changing fast. Land that used to be secured through inheritance, gifts or proof of long-term occupancy is now more commonly changing hands in the market. Those with wealth and powerful connections are frequently able to override local rules and gain access to land at the expense of poorer individuals. Government-backed agribusiness investors receive large areas of land with benefits for some local farmers who are able to participate in the schemes, while other smallholders see their land access and livelihoods degraded.
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Understanding Land Acquisition Challenges that Have Necessitated the Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2017

Legislation
July, 2017
Uganda
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
compensation
compulsory acquisitions
eminent domain
land dispute
land law
Compulsory acquisition is the power of government to acquire private rights in land for a public purpose, without the willing consent of its owner or occupant. This power is known by a variety of names depending on a country’s legal traditions, including eminent domain, expropriation, takings and compulsory purchase.
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Africa’s farmland in changing hands

A review of literature and case studies from sub-Saharan Africa

Reports & Research
March, 2017
Mozambique, Uganda, Ghana, Senegal
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
farmland
land
land acquisitions
land law
land ownership
Access to land is at the heart of rural livelihoods. In sub-Saharan Africa, the pace and scale at which land is changing hands are increasing fast. Understanding these changes in land access is crucial if the systems of land governance, the practices of companies and organisations, and the initiatives seeking to influence rural development, are to adapt and have a positive impact.