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Effects of land titling and registration on tenure security and agricultural investments: Case of Gataraga sector, Northern Rwanda

Vol 1, No 3: December 2018

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2018
Rwanda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
land registration
land titling
rural development
land markets
tenure security

Rwanda has undertaken a land registration and titling program since 2008 with a registration of 10.3 million land parcels in 2013. The aim of this paper is to investigate the early effects of the program on tenure security and agricultural investments since few studies have been carried out in this research area. The study was undertaken in Musanze district in Northern Rwanda, with specific focus on Gataraga sector and it draws on a mix of qualitative and quantitative research methods. The findings indicate that the program led to reduced land conflicts and improved tenure security.

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Applying a Community-Based Approach to Tenure Formalization

A Case Study From Northern Mozambique

Reports & Research
May, 2018
Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
community land rights
customary tenure
land administration
land law
land registration

There is today a growing awareness of the importance of providing rural populations with more secure tenure to land and other natural resources, not least in Africa where approximately 90 percent of all land is still unregistered. At the same time there has been a rethinking of approaches for securing local tenure rights in practice. Experience has shown that the conventional approach, i.e., individual freehold titling, has often not worked well in areas where communal forms of customary tenure predominate, which is still the case in most parts of rural sub-Saharan Africa.

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Securing Customary Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa

Learning from new approaches to tenure reform

Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2015
Sub-Saharan Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
customary tenure
land administration
land policies
land rights

The purpose of this paper is to describe and critically examine newer alternative approaches to the securitization of customary land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa with particular emphasis on certain challenges which need to be tackled in order for these to have an inclusive and equitable outcome at the local level. The content of the paper is primarily based on a literature review though the challenges identified with these new approaches are based on observations from the author’s own on-going research on the land tenure reform in Mozambique.

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Manipulating the Rural Landscape: Villagisation and Income Generation in Rwanda

June, 2011
Rwanda
land use

The aim of the present paper is to investigate whether households relocated to government- built village settlements, as part of Rwanda’s Villagisation programme (‘Imidugudu’), diversify into non-farm income-generating activities to a greater extent than other rural households in Rwanda, and if so, to what extent the variation can be explained by differences in micro-level asset and meso-level access factors.

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