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Land in Africa: market asset or secure livelihood?

Institutional & promotional materials
January, 2004
Africa
cadastres
land rights
This document summarises the proceedings from a conference organised by International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) , Natural Resource insitute (NRI) and the Royal African Society in November 2004.The conference brought together a wide range of interest groups including, African policy makers, academics and civil society representatives, as well as representatives of the private sector and international agencies, to debate the way ahead for land rights and land reforms in Africa.The event addressed two key dimensions of land and property rigths in Africa today and their i
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Land Management and Land Administration Projects in Southeastern Europe

Good practices and lessons learned from two decades of GIZ Engagement

Institutional & promotional materials
Reports & Research
April, 2015
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Montenegro, Serbia
agricultural land management
cadastral administration
cadastral register
cadastres
geographical information systems
land administration
surveyors
After the collapse of the former Soviet Union and the end of the latest Balkan wars, countries in Southeastern Europe had to reorganize their land management and land administration systems. Whereas in the Caucasus region privatization and first property registration were the main challenges, in the former Republic of Yugoslavia, essential objectives were the return of collectivized, confiscated property through restitution or (re)distribution, as well as the updating and harmonization of traditional land registry and cadaster systems and their conversion to modern systems.
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Old Policies – New Action : A Surprising Political Initiative to Recognize Human Rights in the Cambodian Land Reform

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2013
Cambodia
Land & Investments
legal empowerment
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
title deeds
land titling
land policies
land law
Under the motto “old policies - new action”, in June 2012 the Cambodian Prime Minister initiated a massive land registration campaign on untitled former forest land. Unauthorised settlers and other long- term users of these lands, including those inside Economic Land Concessions, had been considered illegal before. Those of them who are poor now receive full property title by way of donation. The campaign was planned for 12 months and targets 470,000 families on 700,000 parcels comprising a total of 1,8 Mio hectares. The campaign might be extended though into the year of 2014.
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Safeguarding Tenure: Lessons from Cambodia and Papua New Guinea for the World Bank Safeguards Review

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2013
Cambodia
Land & Investments
VGGT
title deeds
land titling
poverty
land grabbing
land ownership
tenure security
extractive industries
With a view to operationalizing the recently adopted Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Forests and Fisheries, this paper identifies gaps in existing World Bank safeguard policies with respect to tenure.
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‘Land Grabbing’ in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts CRITICAL REFLECTION

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2013
Cambodia
Land & Investments
VGGT
title deeds
land titling
land grabbing
land ownership
tenure security
extractive industries
INTRODUCTION: Large-scale land acquisitions are a reality in most regions worldwide. Vast areas of land are leased to foreign as well as national investors on a long term basis of 30-99 years. A growing number of reports, referring to this practice as ‘land grabbing’, show that these mostly very intransparent deals tend to go along with corruption, forced evictions and other human rights violations as well as enhanced competition over water.
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Titling against grabbing? Critiques and conundrums around land formalisation in Southeast Asia

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2011
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
Land & Investments
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land distribution
land reform
land investments
land acquisitions
title deeds
land titling
poverty
land policies
land law
Debates and critiques around land policy often focus on the neo-liberal agenda of formalising land as alienable property, most notably through land titling schemes. Sometimes these schemes are posited against alternatives such as land reform and community land holding under common property arrangements. Claims and counter- claims are made for land titling as a means to boost smallholder security in the face of involuntary or otherwise unfair alienation of land sometimes under the rubric of land grabbing.
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Community Forestry in Cease-Fire Zones in Kachin State, Northern Burma: Formalizing Collective Property in Contested Ethnic Areas

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2010
Myanmar
Land & Investments
development agencies
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land investments
land acquisitions
title deeds
land titling
Community forests (CFs) in northern Burma have been gaining momentum since the mid-2000s, spearheaded by national NGOs, mostly in response to protect village land from encroaching agribusiness concessions. While the production of these new CF landscapes represents the material resistance against state-sponsored rubber, in effect it produces contested state authority by formalizing control of former customary swidden hills under the Forestry Department.
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Land Reform in Cambodia

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2010
Cambodia
development agencies
land distribution
land reform
title deeds
land titling
land policies
land law
This paper aims to describe the status of land reform in Cambodia by looking at the background information, general approaches and basic types of land reform from the world’s views and experience, and the efforts taken thus far on land reform in Cambodia. The paper also reflects on key elements, principles, good and bad experiences, innovations, achievements and challenges around the issues of Cambodia’s land reform.
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Is the Geographies of Evasion hypothesis useful for explaining and predicting the fate of external interventions? The case of REDD in Cambodia

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2011
Cambodia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
development agencies
environment
title deeds
land titling
It has proved much easier to observe the stark divide between the ‘professional optimists’ in the development industry and the ‘professional pessimists’ in academic development studies than it has to disrupt these roles or to explain them in ways that prevent them remaining entrenched. This paper will present and discuss the “Geographies of Evasion” hypothesis which claims to explain how and why rights-based development interventions in particular fail.
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Vietnam Land Registration from Terminology to the Practice

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2006
Vietnam
Land & Food Security
food security
title deeds
land titling
land policies
land law
Vietnam Land Administration system has implemented successfully the land policy in recent decades. In the next phase of socio-economic development plan, land is requested to become important domestic resources for many investment projects. Obviously, land registration needs further development so that land use rights or land use right certificate can be used as asset in the open market. In the past ten years, many improved on land registration was undertaken. Many first-look problems have been identified and fixed. The issues of Vietnam land registration are more difficult to identify.