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La question foncière à l’épreuve de la reconstruction en Côte d’Ivoire

Promouvoir la propriété privée ou stabiliser la reconnaissance sociale des droits ?

Reports & Research
August, 2014
Côte d'Ivoire
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
post-conflict settings
land reform
migration
land conflicts
customary land rights
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Land use conflicts in the Inner Niger Delta of Mali: does climate change play a role?

Reports & Research
January, 2010
Mali
Land Conflicts
land administration
environment
climate change
land use
agriculture
encroachment
land conflicts
land dispute
land tenure
Does climate change drive conflict over land use in Mali?

This study investigates the alleged relationship between climate change and conflicts, using the Inland Delta of the Niger River in Mali as a case study, where this region is an African hotspot area in terms of land use conflicts.

The author emphasises that, despite the clear climate developments in the region throughout the last century, researchers are much less sure about future changes. Moreover, the paper finds that:
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Pastoralism and Security in West Africa and the Sahel

Reports & Research
August, 2018
Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
pastoral lands
conflicts
land investments
land dispute resolution
pastoralists
Why this study?
Recent years have witnessed an increase in violent conflicts involving pastoralists in parts of West Africa and the Sahel. They often take the form of clashes between herders and farmers, impacting human, national and regional security.
Given its mandate and role in conflict prevention, the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel, in collaboration with the Economic Community of West African States, initiated this study in 2017 to examine the causes and identify concrete solutions to conflicts related to pastoralism.
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LAND-at-scale Rwanda

Towards a fair and robust land management and governance system connecting people for sustainable livelihoods in Rwanda

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2021
Rwanda
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land administration
land registration
gender equity in access to land
land governance
land-use planning
land management
climate change
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
land conflicts
land dispute resolution
land tenure
capacity development
research
women
This one-pager provides details on the LAND-at-scale project in Rwanda. This project is implemented by Kadaster International and IDLO, and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via the Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency.
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Communal Violence in Mauritania and Senegal 1989-1992

Reports & Research
April, 2021
Mauritania, Senegal
Land Conflicts
land administration
discrimination
land governance
agricultural and rural legislation
land policies
land management
environment
climate change
land use
land rights
land dispute
land dispute resolution
grazing land rights
A local famer-herder conflict over grazing rights in the Mauritanian-Senegal border region has triggered a spiral of violence between Senegalese and Mauritanians in the southern Senegal River bank and different Mauritanian cities. This escalation has to be understood against the background of persistent racism and discrimination of the ‘black’ population of Mauritania.
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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).
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Land tenure systems in the Borgou, Benin

Summary report of baseline findings

Reports & Research
April, 2021
Africa, Western Africa, Benin
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
land administration
land documentation
land records
land titling
gender equity in access to land
food security
land acquisitions
land investments
land conflicts
land tenure
tenure security
perception of tenure security
Benin introduced new instruments to register customary land rights in the 2013 Land and Domain Law, which was updated in 2017. The BMZ supported “Promotion d’une Politique Foncière Responsable (ProPFR)” project is testing these instruments together with scalable implementation modalities in the Borgou department (Benin). This work is complemented with a rigorous impact evaluation to assess changes in tenure security, agricultural investments and food security. The baseline survey was completed in 2018 and includes 2,968 households in 53 villages in the Borgou.
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In the Face of Threats and Invasions in the Forests, Communities Defend and Reclaim Their Life Spaces

WRM Bulletin 254 – Jan/Feb 2021

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2021
Mozambique, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Liberia, Nigeria, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
gender equity
poverty
sustainable development
land-use planning
environment
climate change
fisheries
deforestation
forest conservation
forest management plans
mining
land dispute
community land rights
customary tenure
tenure security
Indigenous Peoples
land rights activists
local communities
extractive industries
women
The articles in this Bulletin are written by the following organizations and individuals: National Coordinator for the Defense of the Mangrove Ecosystem (C-CONDEM), Ecuador; Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakya (Bentala Raya Heritage Foundation), Indonesia; Venezuelan Observatory of Political Ecology and members of the WRM international secretariat in close collaboration with several allies who are part of grassroots groups in different countries.
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Rural-rural Migration and Land Conflicts: Implications on Agricultural Productivity in Uganda

Reports & Research
April, 2016
Norway, Uganda
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
conflicts
land
land conflicts
migration
We use community and household data with plot-level information to explore the determinants of different forms of land conflicts and the conflicts’ impact on agricultural productivity in Uganda. Tracing rural-rural migration patterns, we find that communities that receive/host more immigrants (and thus have many coexisting tribes) tend to have more land conflicts than those sending migrants out.
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Land dispute resolution in Mozambique: institutions and evidence of agroforestry technology adoption

Reports & Research
November, 2016
Mozambique, Norway
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
forestry
land
land dispute
land dispute resolution
Successful adoption of natural resource management technologies requires that important fundamentals of property rights be established. Because disputes over property rights occur universally, the ability to successfully defend one's rights to property exercises a central influence on the tenure security necessary for technology adoption. However, defending rights to property rests upon the possession of evidence that is readily available and widely regarded as legitimate.