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Inclusive Land Registration and the Critical Role of Social Development Officers

A handbook for program design and implementation

Manuals & Guidelines
May, 2020
Ethiopia, Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
title deed
land registration
systematic registration
spatial units
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land tenure
land tenure systems
tenure security
women
Despite good intentions, rural land registration schemes have often failed to reach women and other vulnerable people—revealing the need for more inclusive strategies that target these groups and strengthen their land tenure security. One such strategy has emerged in Ethiopia where the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) program, managed by DAI, has prioritized the recruitment of social development officers (SDOs), young graduates who play a critical coordinating role in the implementation of gender-equitable and socially inclusive approaches to land registration.
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Land Policy Brief: Key findings from survey on access to land, tenure security & land conflicts in Timor-Leste

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2016
Timor-Leste
Land Conflicts
land administration
land policies
land access
land conflicts
tenure security
Continued stability and future development in Timor-Leste are dependent on establishing the necessary legal and administrative mechanisms for providing access to land, land tenure security, as well as preventing and addressing land-related conflict. The survey interviewed representatives of 1,152 households between 3 and 8 of September 2016 in Ainaro, Ermera, and the urban area of Dili and was conducted by The Asia Foundation and the Van Vollenhoven Institute.
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Laos and the making of a 'relational' resource frontier

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2009
Laos
Land & Investments
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land investments
land acquisitions
title deed
land titling
land policies
land law
This paper seeks to reconsider the contemporary relevance of the resource frontier, drawing on examples of nature's commodification and enclosure under way in the peripheral Southeast Asian country of Laos. Frontiers are conceived as relational zones of economy, nature and society; spaces of capitalist transition, where new forms of social property relations and systems of legality are rapidly established in response to market imperatives.
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Articulated neoliberalism: The specificity of patronage, kleptocracy, and violence in Cambodia's neoliberalization

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
Cambodia
Land & Investments
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
poverty
land policies
land law
An exclusive focus on external forces risks the production of an overgeneralized account of a ubiquitous neoliberalism, which insufficiently accounts for the profusion of local variations that currently comprise the neoliberal project as a series of articulations with existing political economic circumstances. Although the international financial institutions initially promoted neoliberal economics in the global South, powerful elites were happy to oblige.
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Fragmented sovereignty: land reform and dispossession in Laos

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
Laos
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
food security
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land policies
land law
Land reform, land politics and resettlement in Laos have changed people’s land access and livelihoods. But these reforms have also transformed political subjectivity and landed property into matters for government to a degree hitherto unknown in Laos. The control over people, land and space has consolidated sovereignty in ways that make government an ineluctable part of people’s relation to land. This transforms agrarian relations. Three cases demonstrate how rural small holders’ access to land depends on the ways in which property and political subjects have been produced.
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Land Acquisition, Investment, and Development in the Lao Coffee Sector: Successes and Failures

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Laos
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land investments
land acquisitions
Despite the increasing acknowledgment of scholars and practitioners that many large-scale agricultural land acquisitions in developing countries fail or never materialize, empirical evidence about how and why they fail to date is still scarce. Too often, land deals are portrayed as straightforward investments and their success is taken for granted. Looking at the coffee sector in Laos, the authors of this article explore dimensions of the land grab debate that have not yet been sufficiently examined.
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The Land Question in the Food Sovereignty Project

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Global
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
development agencies
food security
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
environment
land investments
land acquisitions
This essay explores the changing landscape of food sovereignty politics in the shadow of the so-called ‘land grab’. While the food sovereignty movement emerged within a global agrarian crisis conjuncture triggered by northern dumping of foodstuffs, institutionalized in WTO trade rules, the twenty-first-century food, energy and financial crises intensify this crisis for the world’s rural poor (inflating prices of staple foods and agri-inputs) deepening the process of dispossession.
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Rubber, rights and resistance: the evolution of local struggles against a Chinese rubber concession in Northern Laos

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Laos
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
Land & Investments
legal empowerment
development agencies
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land investments
land acquisitions
poverty
Over the past 10 years, transnational land grabs for rubber tree plantations have proliferated across Laos. Plantation concessions are being established on village lands that are represented as ‘degraded’ and legally classified as ‘state forests’, expropriated by government officials in the name of poverty alleviation with promises that plantations will provide new wage labour opportunities for those dispossessed.
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Land grabbing and forest conflict in Cambodia: Implications for community and sustainable forest management

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Cambodia
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
development agencies
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
environment
land investments
land acquisitions
title deed
land titling
land policies
land law
As a global phenomenon, land grabbing has significant economic, environmental, and social impacts, often resulting in serious conflict between the local community and outsiders. The aim of the study is to get a deeper understanding of the extent to which land grabbing and resulting land-use conflicts affect the move towards sustainable forest management (SFM) in Cambodia. Two case studies were conducted involving community forests (CFs), with data collected through literature review, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and field observations.
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Land Tenure Security and Policy Tensions in Myanmar (Burma)

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Myanmar
Land & Investments
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land policies
land law
After 50 years of military rule, in 2011 the Thein Sein government’s reforms in Myanmar (Burma) entailed a reengagement with the international community, including major international financial organizations, donors, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and civil society organizations (CSOs). The government’s social and economic development policies, which were strongly influenced by this engagement, encouraged private domestic and foreign investment in agriculture to create wealth and reduce poverty.