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Mind the Gap

Bridging the Divide between Land Policy and Practice. Securing women’s land rights through engendering the formalization process of customary land tenure in Uganda: Uganda Community Based Association for Women and Children’s welfare

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2016
Africa, Uganda
Land & Gender
advocacy
customary land rights
customary tenure
gender equity in access to land
land access
land law
The 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Uganda is one of the most gender sensitive constitutions in the world, with clear provisions for promoting and protecting the rights of women. This is also the case in relation to women’s land rights – the Constitution clearly vests land in the people of Uganda, including the rights of women to own and inherit land. Other land laws, including the Land Act, recognize and uphold women’s rights to land as individuals, and as part of a family or community.
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Papers of FAO/SARPN Workshop on HIV/AIDS and Land, Pretoria

Conference Papers & Reports
January, 2002
Kenya, Malawi, Lesotho, South Africa
land policies
Series of country papers on HIV/AIDS and land in Lesotho, Kenya, South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, with concluding paper on methodological and conceptual issues. The key questions addressed include: The impact on and changes in land tenure systems (including patterns of ownership, access, and rights) as a consequence of HIV/AIDS with a focus on vulnerable groups. The ways that HIV/AIDS affected households are coping in terms of land use, management and access, e.g. abandoning land due to fear of losing land, renting out due to inability to utilise land, distress sale of land, etc.
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HIV/AIDS and its impacts on land tenure and livelihoods in Lesotho: comments on Lesotho country study

Conference Papers & Reports
January, 2002
Lesotho
land policies
rural areas
land tenure
This paper addresses the amelioration of the impact of AIDS on land tenure and livelihoods. The author argues that, in Lesotho, land policy development should be informed by the status of community support and welfare for those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. He offers three main policy recommendations as follows: Land administrators should be fully informed about the epidemic and various legislations that govern the rights of the affected households. This will help to ensure uniform implementation of measures to support affected households.
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LAND GOVERNANCE, LAND POLICY AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE LAND USE AND ACCESS RIGHTS IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON AND MATOPIBA AFTER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1988.

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2017
Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Brazil
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land governance
land law
land policies
infrastructure
indigenous peoples' lands
territory
land access
right of access
indigenous peoples' land rights
indigenous people's tenure
government
Indigenous Peoples
Internationally there are an alarming number of violations of indigenous peoples’ land and human rights. Brazil is currently under the spotlight as the heightening of the political crisis that led to the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff brings national and international concerns over the uncertainty related to changes in policy that may be adopted by the interim Government in relation to indigenous peoples land rights.
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A proposition to solve the land cadaster system in Brazil: the role of CNIR and a new institutionalization

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2016
Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Brazil
cadastres
geographical information systems
cadastral register
cadastral administration
agricultural and rural legislation
rural planning
rural areas
private ownership
public ownership
property
private property
property rights
Brazil has, on the one hand, strong institutions in various areas, improved social situation and, on the other, the rural land situation is still very precarious, with basic unresolved questions, such as for example, knowledge of what is public and private land, due to the absence of cadaster. The legislation moved forward in an attempt to link the cadasters of INCRA, the Internal Revenue Service, with information from the Registry of Real Estate with the enactment of Law No. 10,267 / 2001, creating the National Register of Rural Properties – CNIR.
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In Brazilian land ownership issues, History not only matters - it is determinant

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2015
Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Brazil
land law
land policies
land use
agricultural land management
agriculture
land markets
land economics
land rights
land ownership
property
From colonial to modern times, Brazilian agricultural property has remained immersed in a chaotic vortex of deregulation. Attempts of institutional reform - such as the Lei de Terras (Land Law) of 1850 - have been largely unsuccessful, whilst providing legal grounds for land grab by large estates and narrowing the scope of possibilities open for legitimate reevaluations of the first institutional landmark on land use and ownership in the country - the sesmarias.
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Os Zoneamento urbanos e a irregularidade das moradias em Campinas, SP

Conference Papers & Reports
May, 2017
Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Brazil
Urban Tenure
poverty
land policies
urban planning
zoning
urbanization
slums
urban areas
urban land
informal settlements
O presente artigo é parte de um projeto de pesquisa maior, com apoio do Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento (BID), a Universidade de Campinas (UNICAMP), por meio do Grupo de Governança de Terras (GGT), e com apoio da equipe de pesquisa da Toledo e Associados (T&A). Temos como objetivo analisar os Planos Diretores e o zoneamento determinado por eles e como eles a influenciam as escolhas da população ao se estabelecerem em área irregulares na Região Metropolitana de Campinas (RMC).
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Demystifying Customary Tenure in Zambia

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2006
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Conflicts
agricultural and rural legislation
agriculture
use rights
Customary tenure has been associated with absence of individual ownership, inadequate security of tenure, weak institutions, causing environmental degradation, and discriminating against women. These perceptions are re-looked at in the light of personal experience and observations, and literature review in the context of Zambia.
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Large Scale Agricultural Investments under Poor Governance Systems

Actors and Institutions in the Case of Zambia

Conference Papers & Reports
April, 2012
Zambia
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
agricultural and rural legislation
agriculture
customary land rights
This paper analyses the Zambian land governance system, the actors and institutions shaping it and its reaction to the new interest in farmland. We draw theories from New Institutional Economics and base our empirical analyses on expert interviews and focus group discussions conducted in Zambia.
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Legal Coordinated Cadastres

Theoretical Concepts and the Case of Singapore

Conference Papers & Reports
October, 2006
Singapore
cadastres
cadastral register
cadastral administration
land surveying
land law
surveyors
The field of cadastre holds an inherent complexity much based on its interdisciplinary characteristics and the national uniqueness of each cadastral system. In addition, some cadastral terminology is vague or ambiguous, which is why omission of the explicit sense and context of a particular term may bring obscurity to international comparisons and analyses. The concept legal coordinated cadastre (and kindred expressions), occasionally mentioned in connection with visions and plans of cadastral modernisation, is discussed here in order to clarify possible meanings and implications.