An Act to provide for the tenure, ownership and management of land; to amend and consolidate the law relating to tenure, ownership and management of land; and to provide for other related or incidental matters.
[An Act to provide for the continuation of Leaseholds and leasehold tenure; to provide for the continued vesting of land in the Presindent and alienation of land by the President; to provide for the statutory recognition and continuation of customary tenure ; to provide for the conversion of customary tenure into leasehold tenure....]
Regulations by the Minister
An Act to provide for the classification of land in Zimbabwe as Communal Land and for the alteration of such classification; to alter and regulate the occupation and use of Communal Land; and to provide for matters incidental to or connected with the foregoing.
Law on Urban and Agricultural Property
USAID Land Tenure Country Profile: Mexico
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
Training volunteers to help their communities defend their land rights has proved an effective approach for promoting land justice in Tanzania. This report documents how Hakiardhi, a Dar-es-Salaam based research institute working on land governance issues, has established and trained a 600-strong network of male and female ‘Land Rights Monitors’ (LRMs) operating in 300 villages on various aspects of the land law, so they can help people and local governments to exercise and ensure respect for their legal rights in land disputes.
This paper uses District Land and Housing Tribunal (DLHT) as a case study to argue that the principle conceived in the enactment of the law that established the tribunal is far from becoming a reality. It uses data of the past four years to demonstrate that DLHT is overburdened by increment of an average of 2000 pending cases every year. It further shows legal and practical challenges that hinder access to and independence of DLHT. The paper calls for drastic strategic measures to strengthen DLHT in terms of human resources and facilities.
La seguridad jurídica de las tierras trabajadas por mujeres y hombres, es el primer paso para la construcción del futuro de miles de familias de bolivianas y bolivianos del área rural.
La reforma agraria creó nuevas divisiones entre las mismas personas campesinas. Los procesos de expropiación y reorganización de la tierra incluyeron solo a una minoría, compuesta casi exclusivamente por hombres. Esto devino en el surgimiento de una élite de clase trabajadora masculina, que por la posibilidad de acceder a la tierra y la capacidad de "ser su propio patrón" se transformó en el modelo masculino al cual aspiraban los hombres que aún no gozaban de esos privilegios.
