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USAID Report on Land Tenure & Cocoa Production in Ghana

A CRIG/WCF Collaborative Survey, February 2017

Reports & Research
April, 2017
Ghana
boundaries
gender equity in access to land
land inheritance rights
customary law
land use
agricultural land management
agriculture
land
alienation (land)
encroachment
collateral (land)
land access
control rights
land conflicts
farm tenancy
community land rights
customary land rights
customary tenure
farmers
rural population
women
The Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), with support from the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), performed the Ghana Land Tenure Baseline Survey, the first of its kind survey of tenure rights among cocoa farmers in Ghana. CRIG surveyed almost 1,800 cocoa farmers operating 3,900 cocoa plots regarding various land tenure issues within customary sharecropping arrangements and on owner-managed land. This report describes the findings from the Survey.
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Catching up with the fast pace of land access change in Uganda

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2017
Uganda
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agrarian reform
common property
community land rights
compulsory acquisitions
land access
land acquisitions
land conflicts
land governance
The ways in which people obtain land in Uganda are changing fast. Land that used to be secured through inheritance, gifts or proof of long-term occupancy is now more commonly changing hands in the market. Those with wealth and powerful connections are frequently able to override local rules and gain access to land at the expense of poorer individuals. Government-backed agribusiness investors receive large areas of land with benefits for some local farmers who are able to participate in the schemes, while other smallholders see their land access and livelihoods degraded.
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A LUTA PELA EFETIVAÇÃO DOS DIREITOS ÉTNICOS E TERRITORIAIS DAS COMUNIDADES QUILOMBOLAS EM CONFLITOS SOCIOAMBIENTAIS

REFLEXÕES CRÍTICAS SOBRE A ATUAÇÃO EXTENSIONISTA NA DEFESA DOS DIREITOS ÉTNICOS E TERRITORIAIS DA COMUNIDADE QUILOMBOLA DE QUEIMADAS

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2017
Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Brazil
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
community land rights
disturbance
extractive industries
land conflicts
land dispute
land governance
land inheritance rights
land rights
local communities
mining
right of first occupancy
territory
Este artigo possui o objetivo de analisar, criticamente, a ação extensionista promovida na defesa dos direitos étnicos e territoriais da comunidade quilombola de Queimadas, no procedimento administrativo para a certificação da desconformidade do empreendimento minerário denominado “Projeto Serro”, à legislação de uso e ocupação do solo do Município do Serro.
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Land tenure in rural lowland Myanmar

From historical perspectives to contemporary realities in the Dry Zone and the Delta

Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
October, 2017
Myanmar
land administration
land registration
land titling
land governance
land policies
land reform
land management
farmland
agriculture
land
land loans
landlessness
land access
land conflicts
land tenure
tenure security
advocacy
farmers
landowners
This study emerged out of an identified need to document social processes leading to land insecurity, and those leading to investment and sustainable use of lands by rural populations. Focusing on the Delta and Dry Zone, the main paddy producing regions of Myanmar, this analysis unravels the powers at play in shaping rural households’ relationship to land.
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In Search of the Solution to Farmer–Pastoralist Conflicts in Tanzania

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2017
Tanzania
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
advocacy
agriculture
agropastoral systems
land access
land conflicts
pastoral land rights
pastoral lands
pastoralists
Land-use conflict is not a new phenomenon for pastoralists and farmers in Tanzania with murders, the killing of livestock and the loss of property as a consequence of this conflict featuring in the news for many years now. Various actors, including civil society organisations, have tried to address farmer–pastoralist conflict through mass education programmes, land-use planning, policy reforms and the development of community institutions. However, these efforts have not succeeded in the conflict.
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Loi n° 2017-15 du 26 Mai 2017 modifiant et complétant la loi n° 2013-01 du 14 août 2013 portant code foncier et domanial en République du Benin.

Legislation
May, 2017
Benin
Land Conflicts
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
farmland
customary law
use rights
land-use planning
land registration
environment
fisheries
land management
cadastres
forest land
land dispute resolution
forest conservation
gender equity in access to land
La présente loi supprime les dispositions des articles 16, 501 de la loi n° 2013-01 du 14 août 2013 portant code foncier et domanial en République du Benin.
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Enfoques de género y prácticas de las mujeres rurales en Sudamérica

Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2017
Bolivia
land access
land rights activists
land acquisitions
women
land dispute resolution
En este documento se repasan algunos textos recientemente producidos en el ámbito del ‘género para el desarrollo’ que abordan la problemática de las mujeres rurales en el acceso a la tierra, y además, la autora plantea algunas reflexiones en relación con el trabajo que viene realizando el Movimiento Regional por la Tierra y Territorio en su búsqueda de casos inspiradores de acceso a la tierra y territorio con mujeres como protagonistas.
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Apuntes sobre el acceso a la tierra y territorio en Sudamérica

Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2017
Bolivia
land access
right of access
right of first occupancy
indigenous peoples' land rights
land dispute resolution
La Paz, Bolivia
1 de julio de 2017
Apuntes sobre el acceso a la tierra y territorio en Sudamérica[1]

Ruth Bautista Durán
Oscar Bazoberry Chali
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Land for infrastructure development: compulsory acquisition and compensation of unregistered/undocumented land in Kenya

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Kenya
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
cadastral administration
cadastral register
capital value (land)
communal ownership
compensation
compulsory acquisitions
deed registration
displacement
eminent domain
land administration
land dispute
land dispute resolution
land governance
land investments
land ownership
land registration
land titling
land use
land valuation
management rights
natural resources management
research
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
title deeds
women
youth
Kenya’s Vision 2030 aims at transforming the country into a newly industrialized middle income country

and infrastructural development is high on the agenda to achieve this. Competing land uses and existing

interests in land make the use of eminent domain by government in acquiring land inevitable. However

most of the land earmarked for compulsory acquisition comprises of un- registered land whose interests

are not formally documented. Kenya has progressive statutes that provide for compensation of land that is
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Defenders of the Earth

Global killings of land and environmental defenders in 2016

Reports & Research
July, 2017
Global
Land Conflicts
extractive industries
forest land
land
land access
land conflicts
land grabbing
land rights activists
mining
2016 saw a record 200 killings of people defending their land, forests and rivers against destructive industries.

It has never been deadlier to take a stand against companies that steal land and destroy the environment. Our new report Defenders of the Earth found that nearly four people were murdered every week in 2016 protecting their land and the natural world from industries like mining, logging and agribusiness.