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Locked Out. How Unjust Systems are Driving Inequality in Uganda

November, 2019
Uganda
Land & Investments
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land
scale
land acquisitions
government
private property
expropriation
foreign investment
In advance of the release of the World Bank’s 2019 Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) report;the Oakland Institute exposes the Bank’s new scheme to privatize land in the developing world. It details how the Bank’s prescribed reforms;via a new land indicator in the EBA project;promotes large-scale land acquisitions and the expansion of agribusinesses in the developing world. Initiated as a pilot in 38 countries in 2017;the land indicator is expected to be expanded to 80 countries in 2019. The project is funded by the US and UK governments and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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The politics of land occupations in Zimbabwe

March, 2019
Zimbabwe
Land & Investments
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
land
farmers
land grabbing
scale
The globally driven acquisition of land puts rural farmers across the globe at risk and Africa is the hotspot of global land grabbing. Shows the ongoing work of the Remote Sensing Research Group (RSRG);University of Bonn;to map land grabbing events in Southern Africa;with examples from Mozambique and Zambia. Provides an overview of current land grabbing databases;their lack of spatial information and how remote sensing datasets can overcome this lack when being used to detect large scale agricultural production schemes.
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The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation in Malawi

August, 2018
Malawi
Land & Investments
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Forest Tenure
corruption
scale
agriculture
food security
land
Examines the political economy of agricultural commercialisation in Malawi over the past three decades;which has been influenced to a very large extent by the changing configurations of political elites and their underlying interests;incentives and motivations;including using the agricultural sector as a source of political patronage;fraud and corruption.
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How can a rural land information system benefit land users in ethiopia?

Reports & Research
May, 2018
Ethiopia
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
Land & Investments
scale
This summary provides a full scale;context specific and implementable "Business Case for the Rural Land Administration Information Service (RLAIS)".This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme. For more information;please check: https://landportal.org/community/projects/land-investment-transformation...
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Business case for the Rural Land Administration Information Service

Reports & Research
May, 2018
Ethiopia
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
Land & Investments
scale
This business case provides a full scale;context specific and implementable “Business Case for the Rural Land Administration Information Service (RLAIS)”..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme. For more information;please check: https://landportal.org/community/projects/land-investment-transformation...
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Capital, labor, and gender: the consequences of large-scale land transactions on household labor allocation

May, 2019
Ethiopia
Land & Investments
scale
land transactions
land
women
parcels
grazing
livestock
water
migration
research
Contemporary large-scale land transactions (LSLTs), also called land grabs, are historically unprecedented in their scale and pace. They have provoked robust scholarly debates, yet studies of their gender-differentiated impacts remain more rare, particularly when it comes to how changes in control over land and resources affect women's labor, and thereby their livelihoods and well-being.
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The politics of mechanisation in Zimbabwe: tractors, accumulation and agrarian change

July, 2021
Zimbabwe
land reform
smallholders
farmers
scale
farmers
This article explores whether mechanisation affects patterns of accumulation and differentiation in Zimbabwe's post land reform where policy consistently disadvantages smallholders. Is the latest mechanisation wave any different? The article considers dynamics of tractor access and accumulation trajectories across and within land use types in Mvurwi area. Larger, richer and well-connected farmers draw on patronage networks to access tractors and accumulate further. Some small to medium-scale farmers generate surpluses and invest in tractors or pay for services.
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Understanding the Opportunities and Barriers to Securing Customary Land Title in the Albertine Sub-Region, Uganda

Reports & Research
March, 2020
Uganda
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land register
land governance
land management
environment
deforestation
forest conservation
biodiversity
customary tenure
tenure security
The land sector in Uganda has attracted a great deal of attention associated with:
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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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Land Matters II

Results from the Preliminary Impact Study of the ILGU Project’s work in Central Uganda

Reports & Research
April, 2021
Africa, Eastern Africa, Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land Conflicts
land administration
land documentation
land records
land register
cadastral register
cadastral administration
land titling
gender equity in access to land
food security
communal territory
land investments
land conflicts
land tenure
community land rights
customary tenure
tenure security
perception of tenure security
Improvement of Land Governance in Uganda (ILGU) is a project implemented by the German International Cooperation (GIZ), seeking to increase productivity of small-scale farmers on private Mailo land in Central Uganda, co-financed by the European Union and German Government through the German Federal Ministry for
Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).