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A Regional Workshop on Land Monitoring Initiatives: Proceedings

Reports & Research
April, 2015
Asia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Vietnam
development agencies
land access
land reform
tenure security
This publication contains the major highlights of the Land Watch Asia's "Regional Workshop on Land Monitoring Initiatives: Towards an Accountable Governance on Land" held in Manila, Philippines on 21-22 April 2015. These include the land monitoring country reports (in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and Philippines) prepared by Land Watch Asia campaign using the Land Reform Monitoring Framework, which was its landmark contribution towards assessing land issues across the region.
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A Report of a Fact Finding Study on Conflicts between Loita Maasai and Batemi Sonyo ni Sale Division Loliondo District

Reports & Research
August, 2004
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
advocacy
agrarian reform
common lands
grazing land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
land grabbing
land ownership
pastoralists
The conflict for which the research team has taken immediate measures to find its causes and give recommendations for its complete arrest, took place from the 1st-14th July 2004 in the frontiers of Engusero Sambu and Kisangiro villages, in the divisions of Loliondo and Sale, respectively, both of Ngorongoro District. Ngorongoro is the third division in the District. One person was killed and another injured in the subject fighting.
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a report prepared for the Farm Community Trust of Zimbabwe (FCTZ)situation of commercial farm workers after land reform in Zimbabwe

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2003
Zimbabwe
land reform
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A Review for LandNet Rwanda of the Draft National Land Policy – and beyond

Reports & Research
November, 2001
Africa
land policies
land reform
research
land governance
Comprises introduction; immediate background; Lisa Jones’ summary of the National Land Policy; thoughts on the Policy now; the future – the key question of resources; NGO experiences elsewhere of implementing land policy and law; annexes with extract on land and settlement from the PRSP, and extracts from previous comments on the draft Land Policy. Suggests that, since the Policy is likely soon to be approved, LandNet Rwanda should focus its attention on implementation.
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A Review of DFID’s Engagement with Land Reform in Malawi

Reports & Research
December, 2004
Malawi, Africa
land
land reform
Includes experience with land policy development in the region, the Malawi National Land Policy and its implementation strategy, the emerging land market, social protection and economic growth and DFID’s support to date. Among the options suggested to DFID are a more inclusive project, low cost strategic engagement or withdrawal from the land sector. Argues the need for DFID support for public information and awareness and for civil society organisations. Contains a draft legal brief on customary title in Malawian law as an annex.
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A Rich Man’s Hobby

Reports & Research
December, 2003
Africa
land reform
land
farmland
land ownership
farmers
Argues that the price of commercial farmland in Namibia is high in relation to the profits that can be made from commercial livestock farming. As a result, farming is rapidly becoming the preserve of the urban rich who farm as a lifestyle choice and are prepared to subsidise their farms from their principal sources of income. Government policy is trying to encourage black Namibians into commercial farming through the Affirmative Action Loans scheme. However, given the price of land, many of these farmers will struggle to create commercially viable farms.
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A scan of rural civil society in South Africa

Reports & Research
January, 2013
South Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
advocacy
agrarian reform
grassroots organizations
land rights activists
This research report examines the changing role and function of civil society in South Africa pre and post-1994, and its changing relations with the state through successive presidencies. It presents a four quadrant typology of civil society organisations
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A Simplified Spatial Methodology for Assessing Land Productivity Status in Africa

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2022
Uganda, Mauritius, Rwanda, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
land reform
The degradation of soil, vegetation and socio-economic transformations are a huge threat to Africa’s land production. This study aimed to (i) assess the soil and land productivity of standing biomass and (ii) determine the effect of rainfall on the standing biomass in Eastern Africa. Soil productivity was determined using the Soil Productivity Index (SPI) and a simplified model was developed to estimate the Net Primary Productivity (NPP). The SPI indicators used included soil-organic matter, texture, soil moisture, base-saturation, pH, cation-exchange-capacity, soil-depth and drainage.
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A Slipping Hold? Farm Dweller Precarity in South Africa's Changing Agrarian Economy and Climate

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2018
South Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agrarian reform
climate change
The paper investigates whether farm dwellers in the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province of South Africa are subject to a “double exposure”: vulnerable both to the impacts of post-apartheid agrarian dynamics and to the risks of climate change. The evidence is drawn from a 2017 survey that was undertaken by the Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA), which is a land rights Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), of 843 farm dweller households. Data on the current living conditions and livelihoods was collected on 15.3% of the farm dweller population in the area.
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A Snapshot of Inequality

What the latest agricultural census reveals about land distribution in Colombia

Reports & Research
May, 2017
Colombia
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land distribution
land grabbing
land policies
land reform
land use
research
women
This report first reviews how inequality in land distribution has reached extreme levels in Colombia. Then it analyzes the problem of concentration of land from different perspectives and indicators based on the agricultural census data from 2016, focusing on the major differences between the extremes.