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Status of land ownership, land conflict, and perceptions and knowledge about the land law in Mozambique: Analysis of nationally representative data to assess the impact of land policy monitoring and capacity building activities

Reports & Research
January, 2013
Mozambique
activities
capacity development
land
land law
land ownership
monitoring
Demand and Price Analysis, International Relations/Trade, Land Economics/Use,
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Statutory Land Control and the Small holder Land System in Kenya: A study of land control in the Nyanza Sugar belt.

Reports & Research
December, 1991
Kenya
land ownership
land tenure
It is generally acknowledged that
insecure and incomplete property rights have large effects on
the use and management of watershed resources.
The standard policy response to this problem is
to privatize farm land, declare riverine areas
to be public property, and establish a set of
restrictions on the use of both private and pub
lic land. This paper presents a more nuanced
concept of catchment property rights, drawing
upon key concepts from watershed hydrology and
the multidisciplinary social science of property
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Strategy for registering orphan children during SLLC

Reports & Research
September, 2018
Ethiopia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
land rights
This study examines the challenges orphan children face in securing their land rights and provides a strategy to ensure long-term access to their land use rights..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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Strategy to effectively engage women and vulnerable groups during SLLC

Reports & Research
July, 2017
Ethiopia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
Land & Investments
women
land
tenure security
This study assesses the engagement of women and vulnerable groups (VGs) during the second level land certification (SLLC) process and how best to involve women and VGs to ensure their involvement and tenure security..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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Strengthening community land rights and responses to involuntary displacements caused by development projects in Zimbabwe : final technical report

Reports & Research
April, 2020
Zimbabwe, Sub-Saharan Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Conflicts
displacement
land rights
mining
rural development
Despite an inflow of investment in rural communities, there are concerns about negative impacts on local people’s livelihoods, access to farming land, productivity, income levels, food security and access to social services. The Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) research partnership assessed the impact and benefits of large-scale investments in the agricultural sector on livelihoods of smallholder farmers using two case studies. Evidence from this project suggests that the large-scale investments increased the income of surrounding communities.
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Strengthening Women’s Access to Land

RISD and IFAD Study

Reports & Research
February, 2011
Rwanda
land
property
women
RISD in conjuction with IFAD carried out a study on ’Strengthening Women’s Access to Land’ in the Districts of Kayonza and Kirehe in Eastern Province.
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Strengthening Women’s Voices in the Context of Agricultural Investments

Lessons from Tanzania

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Tanzania
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
advocacy
agrarian reform
agrarian structure
agricultural land management
compensation
compulsory acquisitions
displacement
dispossession
eminent domain
land acquisitions
land dispute
women
This report constitutes one of four countrywide assessments produced under the International Institute for Environment and Development’s (IIED) ‘Gender, land and accountability in the context of agricultural and other natural resource investments’ initiative. The goal of the initiative is to strengthen rural women’s livelihood opportunities by empowering them in relation to community land stewardship and increasing their ability to hold agricultural investors in East and West Africa to account. The main aim of this report is to provide a backdrop of relevant policies and practice.
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Strengthening women’s voices in the context of agricultural investments: Lessons from Tanzania

Reports & Research
July, 2016
Tanzania, Africa
Land & Gender
land
land governance
patrilineal lineage
land rights
land access
land law
women
Provides a backdrop of relevant policies and practice; a gender analysis of the policy framework governing land and investments; and recommendations on how to work towards land rights securing and better inclusion in land governance processes for women in Tanzania. Concludes that implementation of laws, including key gender equality principles, has been weak, and gender inequality in land access persists largely due to the continued dominance of (patrilineal) customary land laws and practice.
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Strenthening Community Based Natural Resources Governance through Local Institutions and Building Capacity of Pastoralist Communities in Garba Tula

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Kenya
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
common property
land governance
legal empowerment
natural resources management
environment
A summary of IUCN's work with the Resource Advocacy Project and the communities of Garba Tula, in order to secure rights to resources and improve conservatin practices.
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Study of the to provide effective legal services for women and vulnerable groups

Reports & Research
January, 2019
Ethiopia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
women
land rights
This study examines and provides recommendations as well as practical;strategic interventions to enable women and VGs access legal aid services and secure their land rights..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...