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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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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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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.
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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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Discursos sobre o Regime de Propriedade da Terra em Moçambique

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2017
Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
land governance
mining
land investments
foreign investment
investment funds
land conflicts
community land rights
government
local communities
extractive industries
Os discursos e posicionamentos sobre o regime de propriedade da terra em Moçambique não são coincidentes. Este artigo apresenta as percepções que os diferentes stakeholders (Estado, Comunidades locais, sector privado, Investidores, Sociedade Civil, etc.) envolvidos na relação com a terra possuem em relação à questão fundiária no País, sobretudo no atual contexto marcado pelo grande fluxo de projetos de investimento, de investidores nacionais e estrangeiros, com interesses no agronegócio, na exploração mineira e exploração de hidrocarbonetos.
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Major Determinant of Physical Development on Urban Residential Land: The Case of Kalulushi Municipality in Zambia

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2017
Zambia
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
estate management
land administration
urbanization
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Land grabbing and peri-urban development

Training Resources & Tools
May, 2017
Zambia
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Urban Tenure
common property
land access
land acquisitions
Media reports over the years have increasingly used the term “land grabbing:”

- Post Newspaper, 29th August 2000 - MMD cadres grabbing land in Kabangwe and Chazanga area of Chieftainess Mungule.
-Post Newspaper, April 15, 2010 - MMD cadres led by the Lusaka Provincial Chairman grabbing land from Ngombe resident

-Times of Zambia, 29th November 2002 - investors in tobacco farming grabbing land from poor villagers in Chipata, Kasenengwa and Chipangali constituencies in Eastern Province.
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The Seventh National Development Plan 2017 - 2021

Legislation & Policies
June, 2017
Zambia
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Urban Tenure
agrarian reform
agrarian structure
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
alienation (land)
land acquisitions
land administration
women
youth
Zambia remains committed to the socio-economic development planning of the country as reflected by the return to development planning in 2005. The Seventh National Development Plan (7NDP) for the period 2017- 2021 is the successor to the Revised Sixth National Development Plan, 2013-2016 (R-SNDP) following its expiry in December 2016. The Plan, like the three national development plans (NDPs) that preceded it, is aimed at attaining the long-term objectives as outlined in the Vision 2030 of becoming a “prosperous middle-income country by 2030”.
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Assessment of Land Governance System in Preventing State Land Conflicts in Zambia

Journal Articles & Books
August, 2017
Zambia
Land Conflicts
community land rights
compulsory acquisitions
customary land rights
displacement
dispossession
The purpose of the research is to assess the land governance system in preventing state land conflicts in Zambia. In order to obtain insights about the actual realities on the ground, based on a case study strategy (i.e. Lusaka District has a study area), the research examined the present status of state land governance system, and investigated the efficiency of the present state land governance system in preventing state land conflicts.