Statutory recognition of rural communities as collective owners of their lands is substantial, expanding, and an increasingly accepted element of property relations. The conventional meaning of property in land itself is changing, allowing for a greater diversity of attributes without impairing legal protection.

The key question in this article is the extent to which current real property expropriation practices in Kigali city promote spatial justice. Current studies focus on the ambiguous manner in which real property valuation had been regulated by the expropriation law of 2007, leading to unfair compensation and various conflicts between expropriating agencies and expropriated people. Following its amendment in 2015, the law currently provides clearer procedures for valuation and fair compensation, based on the market prices.

This article brings together the concepts of land and landscape, tightly linked in urban transformative situations, but rarely used for the purpose to strengthen strategic planning for sustainability. They are investigated as a combined base for land use deliberations, in early phases of planning processes, in practices of different scale, especially in a European context, drawing on planning and landscape policies generally agreed upon, as well as the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

After eight years of civil war, parts of Syria are now free from conflict. In recognition of the return to peace, the government officially welcomes back all who fled the country to escape violence. Yet, a pattern of property expropriation supported by the government during the war limits the ability of some to return and reclaim their homes and businesses.

The National Land Policy in Kenya: Critical Public Land Issues and Policy Statements is a guide to steer the debate and eventual formulation of a National Land Policy and legislative framework that will address issues of management and administration of public land in Kenya.

Cerrito Totora es un Campo Comunal, declarado así en el año 2000 por el Instituto de Bienestar Rural IBR, actual INDERT a propuesta de los beneficiarios que lucharon por su recuperación, es propiedad estatal y su aprovechamiento se realiza en forma colectiva por familias de pequeños productores agropecuarios de las comunidades aledañas al campo para fines agrícola- ganaderos.

El 13 de octubre de 2014 en el tribunal superior de justicia de la ciudad de El Alto se dio cumplimiento a la Sentencia Constitucional Plurinacional 0874/2014. Esta sentencia marcó un antes y un después en la administración de justicia en Bolivia, ya que se visibilizaron nuevos actores en el escenario jurídico, las autoridades campesinas de Zongo que reclamaron su participación efectiva en la administración de justicia y por primera vez, lograron arrebatar un proceso jurídico de características penales y ambientales a un juez ordinario.

El objetivo del presente documento es describir la estructura actual de tenencia de la tierra por parte de los diversos grupos étnicos que conforman la sociedad civil rural de Colombia. El documento aborda la temática desde una perspectiva descriptiva general.

Los procesos de reforma agraria de Honduras, ejecutados con cierta firmeza a partir de la década de los años setenta, no solo han transformado el conjunto de la sociedad nacional sino; sobre todo, el propio medio rural por el hecho de haber suscitado la emergencia de mayores capacidades del sector campesino para producir alimentos y diversos productos pecuarios.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the existing real property valuation practice in case of expropriation in Ethiopia and to propose potential bases and approaches compatible to the Ethiopian real property system based on desk review research in which existing literature are the main source. The paper found that, there is no standard and responsible institution for property valuation. As a result, valuation variation and valuation inaccuracies are common.

The accelerated exploration of sub-surface mineral resources across much of Africa has created the need for proper administration of sub-surface land rights. The trend world-wide is a separate cadastre for mining.