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Women’s land rights: Customary rules and formal laws in the pastoral areas of Ethiopia – complementary or in conflict?

Reports & Research
July, 2021
Ethiopia
Land & Gender
land administration
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
customary law
pastoral lands
agropastoral systems
land rights
customary land rights
customary tenure
pastoral land rights
women
Land in Ethiopia is held by the state, who acts as a custodian for the Ethiopian people. Even though it is the state which controls land ownership, farmers and pastoralists are guaranteed a lifetime ‘holding’ right that provides rights to use the land, rent it out, donate, inherit and sharecrop it. Everything except sell and mortgage it. On paper and under existing formal laws, women have equal rights to men as far as use and control of and access to land is concerned.
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Urban transformations and land governance in peri-urban Khartoum: the case of Soba

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2019
Africa, Sudan, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
The New Urban Agenda and SDG 11 promote inclusive urban development, but limited empirical
knowledge exists on how such global rhetoric plays out on the ground. This paper contributes
to the inclusive city debate by focusing on the case of Soba, a peri-urban area at the fringes
of the capital of Sudan. Based on an explorative study of secondary material, semi-structured
interviews and structured observations it aims to systematically analyse the dynamics of periurban
development. Findings show how the rising pressure on land results in commoditisation,
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Les défis posés par le régime foncier dans la mise en oeuvre de la restauration des paysages forestiers au nord-ouest de Madagascar

Reports & Research
January, 2020
Madagascar
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
land governance
land policies
land reform
land rights
Points à retenir
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Regional Land Observatories

Monitoring the impact of land acquisitions on local and indigenous communities in Cameroon

Reports & Research
July, 2021
Cameroon
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Urban Tenure
Land Observatories (LOs) monitor how large-scale land deals impact the environment, culture, and traditional ways of life of local and indigenous communities.

They try to understand how local, regional, national and transnational land transactions in agriculture, forestry, mining, ranching, and livestock keeping impact livelihoods.
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Women and Community Land Rights: Investing in Local Champions

Reports & Research
July, 2021
Tanzania, Mongolia, Global
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land governance
land inheritance rights
matrilineal lineage
patrilineal lineage
land rights
community land rights
local communities
women
For more than five years, the Women’s Land Tenure Security (WOLTS) Project has been investigating the intersection of gender and land relations in mining-affected pastoralist communities in Mongolia and Tanzania. The aim has been to develop a methodology for long-term community engagement and capacity building to protect and support the land rights of all vulnerable people – thus to fully mainstream attention to gender equity in land tenure governance within a framework that would facilitate improvements in community land rights across the board.
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LAND-at-scale Mozambique

Scaling community legal literacy, land rights certification and climate resilience

Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2021
Mozambique
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
cadastres
land cover mapping
gender equity in access to land
land governance
poverty
sustainable development
adjudication
tenure security
capacity development
legal empowerment
local communities
This one-pager provides details on the LAND-at-scale project in Mozambique. This project is implemented by Centro Terra Viva and Terra Firma, and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via the Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency.
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Disruption or Déjà Vu? Digitalization, Land and Human Rights

Case Studies from Brazil, Indonesia, Georgia, India and Rwanda

Reports & Research
January, 2021
Rwanda, Brazil, Indonesia, India, Georgia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
rural development
community forestry
land rights
displacement
dispossession
community land rights
customary land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
rural population

Digital technologies cut off access to land

Despite promises to fix unjust land governance, a new study shows that digital technologies can further land grabbing and inequality.
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Where Bottom-Up and Top-Down Meet: Challenges in Shaping Sustainable & Scalable Land Interventions

Conference Papers & Reports
June, 2021
Egypt, Burundi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Chad, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Vietnam, Palestine, Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land governance
sustainable development
tenure security
land stakeholders
government
local communities
LAND-at-scale is a land governance support program for developing countries from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, which was launched in 2019. The aim of the program is to directly strengthen essential land governance components for men, women and youth that have the potential to contribute to structural, just, sustainable and inclusive change at scale in lower- and middle-income countries/regions/landscapes. The program is designed to scale successful land governance initiatives and to generate and disseminate lessons learned to facilitate further scaling.
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Women and Community Land Rights: Investing in Local Champions

Reports & Research
June, 2021
Tanzania, Mongolia
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land governance
community forestry
land economics
land rights
land tenure
community land rights
local communities
women
For more than five years, the Women’s Land Tenure Security (WOLTS) Project has been investigating the intersection of gender and land relations in mining-affected pastoralist communities in Mongolia and Tanzania. The aim has been to develop a methodology for long-term community engagement and capacity building to protect and support the land rights of all vulnerable people – thus to fully mainstream attention to gender equity in land tenure governance within a framework that would facilitate improvements in community land rights across the board.
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Analyse des dynamiques de deux régimes fonciers distincts Cas de la ville de Touba et Ziguinchor (Sénégal)

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Senegal
Land & Corruption
Land & Investments
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land rights

L’originalité de la structure urbaine de Touba réside tout d’abord sur sa gestion dirigée par le Khalif général et son statut particulier d’un titre foncier qui s’adosse sur une forte démographie incontrôlée conjuguée à un fort étalement mal maitrisé. La politique d'urbanisme de Touba semble se résumer à la création de parcelles d'habitation et au libre choix laissé au khalife pour les sites d'implantation d'équipements ou d'infrastructures, et la destination des réserves.