An Act to make Provision for the Acquisition of Lands and Servitudes for Public Purposes and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to such provision

An Act to make provision authorising the acquisition of property for public and other purposes and for setting the amount of any compensation to be paid or any matter in difference.

Land (Assessment of the Value of Land for Compensation) Regulations

This dialogue provided a way for the land community to collaboratively explore challenges and opportunities related to the recognition of indigenous, ethnic minority and customary tenure rights in the Mekong region in order to:

This Decree details some articles of the Law on Land concerning compensation, support, and resettlement upon land expropriation by the State. (Article 1)

An Act to ensure,in consultation with institutions oflocal self-government and Gram Sabhas established under the Constitution, a humane, participative, informed andt ransparent process for land acquisition for industrialisation, development of essential infrastructuml facilities and urbanisation with the least disturbance to the owners of the land and other affected families and provide just and fair compensation to the affected families whose land has been acquired or proposed to be cquired or are affected by such acquisition and make adequate provisions for such affected persons for the i

This is Afghanistan's general law on expropriation of land. It was last amended in 2005

A Resolution to provide instructions to standardize the process and procedures of land expropriation in the first instance.

The paper presents and discusses the fact that when land is acquired, compensation paid and resettlement done, the communities still go ahead and put constraints before the Government for the purposes of hindering the development. Citing of projects for economic development is a major problem for developing economies because of the agitation of the land “owners”despite an existing good land tenure system.

The paper stressed the fact that one general law may not be sufficient for Government to process land for development purposes because of the communities’ agitation

Sri Lanka National Involuntary Resettlement Policy (NIRP)

"Whether the Expropriated Properties Act No.9 of 1982, to the extent that it nullified the sale of the suit property to the defendant and accordingly deprives him of his proprietary interest therein, contravenes the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda and is thereby null and avoid."

What has been the reaction of the rural producers and other land holders over these demands and actual land acquisitions? What does their reactions means in relation to ongoing land grabbing? While these questions are important this study was motivated by two major concerns.