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Housing, land and property rights as war financing commodities: A typology with lessons from Darfur, Colombia and Syria

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2022
Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Western Asia, Europe, Oceania, Global
Land & Corruption
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
Urban Tenure
land documentation
land records
land registration
deed registration
land governance
post-conflict settings
expropriation
land law
conflicts
land acquisitions
land ownership
The ongoing use of landscape-based conflict commodities — diamonds and other minerals, timber, wildlife, etc. — to finance wars continues to evolve. The success with which such commodities can be transacted to support militaries, militias and insurgencies has led belligerents to innovate with additional commodities. Housing, land and property (HLP) rights within war zones have belatedly joined the list of conflict commodities that are subject to transaction, and to such an extent as to warrant significant concern.
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Deriving countermeasures to the use of housing, land and property rights as a war-financing commodity

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2022
Africa, Americas, Eastern Asia, Western Asia, Europe, Global
Land & Corruption
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
Urban Tenure
land administration
land documentation
land records
title deeds
land titling
corruption
conflicts
Efforts to thwart the trafficking of conflict commodities to finance wars constitute an ongoing endeavour. As specific approaches become effective for certain commodities, belligerent actors pursue new forms of exploitation. The trafficking of housing, land and property (HLP) rights in war zones has now reached a pervasiveness, lucrativeness and severity to warrant significant attention on the derivation of countermeasures.
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Land grabbing and the making of an authoritarian populist regime in Hungary

March, 2019
Hungary
Land & Corruption
land grabbing
rural areas
How do authoritarian populist regimes emerge within the European Union in the twenty-first century? In Hungary, land grabbing by oligarchs have been one of the pillars maintaining Prime Minister Orbán’s regime. The phenomenon remains out of the public purview and meets little resistance as the regime-controlled media keeps Hungarians ‘distracted’ with ‘dangers’ inflicted by the ‘enemies of the Hungarian people’ such as refugees and the European Union.
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Are development finance institutions equipped to address land rights issues?

A stocktake of practice in agriculture

Reports & Research
March, 2019
Africa, United States of America, Asia, Europe
Land & Investments
agriculture
Bilateral development finance institutions (DFIs) play an increasingly prominent role in the international aid architecture. Because of their position between development and commercial worlds, DFIs can be a key player in efforts to align private sector conduct with international norms and standards.
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Are development finance institutions equipped to address land rights issues? [Executive Summary]

A stocktake of practice in agriculture

Reports & Research
March, 2019
Africa, United States of America, Asia, Europe
Land & Investments
agriculture
Bilateral development finance institutions (DFIs) play an increasingly prominent role in the international aid architecture. Because of their position between development and commercial worlds, DFIs can be a key player in efforts to align private sector conduct with international norms and standards.
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Study on Fraud in Land Administration Systems

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
October, 2021
Northern America, Central Asia, Western Asia, Europe
Land & Corruption
land administration
land governance
corruption
land access
right of access
This publication is based on the “Study on Fraud in Land Administration Systems” presented at the Twelfth Session of the Working Party on Land Administration in 2021. It is an update to the 2011 “Study on the Challenges of Fraud to Land Administration Institutions" (ECE/HBP/165). It analyses the current state of play and best practices in addressing fraud in land administration systems in the ECE region.
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Land Management and Land Administration Projects in Southeastern Europe

Good practices and lessons learned from two decades of GIZ Engagement

Institutional & promotional materials
Reports & Research
April, 2015
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Montenegro, Serbia
agricultural land management
cadastral administration
cadastral register
cadastres
geographical information systems
land administration
surveyors
After the collapse of the former Soviet Union and the end of the latest Balkan wars, countries in Southeastern Europe had to reorganize their land management and land administration systems. Whereas in the Caucasus region privatization and first property registration were the main challenges, in the former Republic of Yugoslavia, essential objectives were the return of collectivized, confiscated property through restitution or (re)distribution, as well as the updating and harmonization of traditional land registry and cadaster systems and their conversion to modern systems.
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Responsible Investments in Agriculture. In Practice Case Study Review

Reports & Research
September, 2015
Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Eastern Europe
Land & Investments
agriculture
extractive industries
land deals
land governance
land grabbing
land investments
land policies
tenure security
EBG Capital was appointed by the German Development Agency (GIZ) to obtain case studies from selected agricultural investment funds (predominantly private equity investors) to determine “best practice” in Responsible Investment (RI) in agriculture and the use of international RI principles and guidelines to achieve this. We requested a case study of a practical (“on-the-ground”) investment in farmland from 33 agricultural investors from around the world.
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Global Property Rights Index (PRIndex)

2016 Testing of a New Survey Module on Perceptions of Land Tenure Security in Nine Countries

Reports & Research
March, 2017
Egypt, Tanzania, Nigeria, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Indonesia, Greece
land policies
land tenure
local communities
research
tenure security
This report presents results from nationally representative surveys with 1,000 residents aged 15 and older in eight countries — Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Greece, Indonesia, Nigeria, Peru and Tanzania — and with 3,000 residents in India. Each survey attained comprehensive coverage of both urban and rural areas of the country using multi-stage stratified cluster sampling.1 Standardized interviewer and supervisor training, as well as robust validation of data collection/data entry, help to ensure rigorous quality standards.
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Illegal Land Use in the Netherlands: An Explorative Empirical Study on the Use of Municipal Land Without Any Right

Journal Articles & Books
Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2017
Netherlands
land ownership
land use
private ownership
public ownership
Throughout the Netherlands, land owners (or their lessees) use adjacent public or private land without any right. There is, however, no scientific empirical data on how often and where land is illegally used. On the basis of empirical case studies, this research has the following aims: make an estimate of how often illegal land use occurs in the Netherlands; which kind of land is illegally used; in what kind of spatial context it is illegally used; and for what purpose it is illegally used.