Includes evolution of communal areas in Zimbabwe, research context and findings, processes leading to matongo, vulnerability of women’s land access, bargaining for land in patrimonial governance systems.
This chapter is an initial exploration and sharing of experiences and ideas based largely on a case study of a group of small farmers who have occupied and are producing on land that they believe they have an historical right to.
Covers world agriculture, a changing context; scale and geography of the phenomenon, key players; the nature of the land deals, process and terms; implications for local land access; conclusion and recommendations.
The regulation establishes privatization prices for state-owned agricultural land according to categories (broken down for each municipality of Georgia); and annual use fee for the state-owned agricultural land that may not be privatized (broken down into the following categories: pasture land, and pasture land in Akhmeta and Dedoplistskaro municipalities) (2 annexes).
The International Land Coalition (ILC) has commissioned this present report to analyze the illegal/irregular acquisition of land by Kenya’s elites to ascertain the types of land affected, the processes used to acquire land, and the profiles of the perpetrators, as well as to identify the victims and the impacts of land grabbing.
This article estimates the poverty reducing impact of the recent land reforms and land transfers in the different land tenure systems of Uganda.
This case study draws on an analysis of urban land markets in the East African region. The research was undertaken by Paul Syagga, School of the Built Environment, University of Nairobi, and commissioned by Urban LandMark. Some learning and reflection activities based on the case study are provided.
Niger is a pastoral country. However, despite its crucial economic, social and cultural impact, pastoralism remains a very uncertain activity, and Niger’s successive governments didn’t invest much in it (1% of the national budget in 2009, versus 35% for farming activities).
This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set about transforming it according to their own local requirements.
La presente Ley tiene como objeto crear un fondo para compra de tierra con equidad de genera para mujeres rurales, con el fin de otorgar apropiación jurídica y material de la tierra a favor de las mujeres rurales, que permitirá, además de mejorar la calidad de vida del núcleo familiar, el acceso a los recursos financieros,priorizando a aquellas mujeres cabezas de familia, de bajos recursos econ
La imagen tradicional de las mujeres rurales de América Latina, marcada por la subsistencia y el cuidado de su familia, da paso a otra de protagonistas de actividades comerciales y productivas a pequeña y gran escala, en un cambio que tiene detrás historias de éxitos y también de explotación.
Annalisa Maure, gerente de Programas de la Coalición Internacional para el Acceso a la Tierra, describe el panorama del acceso a la tierra en el mundo, Latinoamérica y Bolivia.