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Discursos sobre o Regime de Propriedade da Terra em Moçambique

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2017
Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
land governance
mining
land investments
foreign investment
investment funds
land conflicts
community land rights
government
local communities
extractive industries
Os discursos e posicionamentos sobre o regime de propriedade da terra em Moçambique não são coincidentes. Este artigo apresenta as percepções que os diferentes stakeholders (Estado, Comunidades locais, sector privado, Investidores, Sociedade Civil, etc.) envolvidos na relação com a terra possuem em relação à questão fundiária no País, sobretudo no atual contexto marcado pelo grande fluxo de projetos de investimento, de investidores nacionais e estrangeiros, com interesses no agronegócio, na exploração mineira e exploração de hidrocarbonetos.
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Conflict, collusion and corruption in small-scale gold mining: Chinese miners and the state in Ghana

Journal Articles & Books
February, 2017
Ghana
Land Conflicts
corruption
post-conflict settings
land use
mining
conflicts
land investments
land rights
land conflicts
As gold prices soared from 2008 onwards, tens of thousands of foreign miners, especially from China, entered the small-scale mining sector in Ghana, despite it being ‘reserved for Ghanaian citizens’ by law. A free-for-all ensued in which Ghanaian and Chinese miners engaged in both contestation and collaboration over access to gold, a situation described as ‘out of control’ and a ‘culture of impunity’. Where was the state? This paper addresses the question of how and why pervasive and illicit foreign involvement occurred without earlier state intervention.
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Triggers of Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Ghana: A Non-Parametric Analysis of Stakeholders’ Perspectives

Journal Articles & Books
April, 2017
Ghana
Land Conflicts
land governance
land use
land access
land conflicts
water rights
farmers
In Ghana, farmer-herder conflicts have become widespread and increasingly assume a violent dimension. Competition over access to and use of land and water resources is at the center of the conflicts. However, competition does not automatically result in conflicts. The conflicts are driven by triggering activities of both farmers and herders. This study identifies triggers of farmer-herder conflicts in the Upper West Region of Ghana and tests the level of agreement among key stakeholder groups on the triggers of these conflicts.
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Strong Institutions in Weak States: Institution Building, Natural Resource Governance, and Conflict in Ghana and Sierra Leone

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Ghana, Sierra Leone
Land in post-conflict settings
land governance
land policies
environment
natural resources management
land conflicts
land dispute
Since the end of the Cold War, natural resources have assumed an increasingly prominent role in security, conflict, and peace studies. Scholars and development practitioners alike view the development of strong institutions, which aim to domesticate global regulatory regimes that foster neoliberal principles like privatization, transparency, and accountability, as necessary to mitigate natural resource conflict in resource-rich states, as well as enhance opportunities for peace and social justice.
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The Unfolding Humanitarian Crisis Around Lake Chad: UN Report Falls Short of Naming Environmental Dimensions

Reports & Research
September, 2017
Nigeria
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
climate change
land use
natural resources
natural resources management
water management
land dispute
tenure insecurity
It is encouraging to see that the United Nations Security Council is beginning to acknowledge the transboundary dimensions of fragility and conflict, as demonstrated by its newly launched Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in the Lake Chad Basin region.
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Spatial Monitoring Report on SOCFIN Agricultural Company Sierra Leone Ltd. in Malen Chiefdom, Pujehun District, Sierra Leone

Reports & Research
May, 2017
Sierra Leone
Land in post-conflict settings
land acquisitions
land investments
land deals
land grabbing
land rights
land dispute
monitoring
Since the onset of the phenomenon of large scale land acquisition for agri-business in Sierra Leone, after the first whistle was blown by Green Scenery, many studies have been conducted by various researchers, some to meet requirements for degree thesis, others for policy and development purposes. There is the fear in a school of thought opposed to large scale land acquisition that there is danger in corporate entities ascribing huge portions of land to themselves in the guise of investment and annihilating the actual land owners.
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Large-scale land deals in Sierra Leone at the intersection of gender and lineage

Journal Articles & Books
July, 2017
Sierra Leone
Land in post-conflict settings
land acquisitions
land deals
land dispute
land rights
There is wide engagement with large-scale land deals in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly from the perspectives of development and international political economy. Recently, scholars have increasingly pointed to a gendered lacuna in this literature. Engagement with gender tends to focus on potential differential impacts for men and women, and it also flags the need for more detailed empirical research of specific land deals.
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Port Loko Declaration: Women say “We want our lands back!”

Training Resources & Tools
August, 2017
Sierra Leone
Land in post-conflict settings
gender equity in access to land
land dispute
land policies
land rights
local communities
women
We, leaders of groups of women affected by the expansion of industrial monoculture plantations, particularly oil palm plantations, coming from all regions in Sierra Leone and different countries from West and Central Africa;

We, national and international organizations involved in the struggle for the rights of women and local communities in Africa, Latin America and Asia, signatories of this declaration, met from 14 to 15 August 2017 in Port Loko, Sierra Leone.
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The political economy of fragility: Business, conflict and peace in Sierra Leone

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2017
Sierra Leone
Land in post-conflict settings
informal settlements
land conflicts
land dispute
This paper was written as part of the research initiative entitled Engaging the Business Community as a New Peacebuilding Actor. It is a joint project of the Africa Centre for Dispute Settlement (ACDS), CDA Collaborative Learning Projects (CDA), and the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Field Reseach and Desk Study Report

Comprehensive coherent land conflict management mechanisms in Teso sub-region

Reports & Research
July, 2017
Sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda
Land & Gender
Land Conflicts
cadastral register
community land rights
gender equity in access to land
land conflicts
land governance
land titling
Teso Initiative for Peace (TIP) received funds from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) that has been delegated through Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) under a project titled “Responsible Land Policy in Uganda” (RELAPU). In its pursuit to reduce extreme poverty and hunger in the world under its Field of Action 6 i.e.