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1. Library Resource

   

   Reflections on the limited impact of the VGGT in Sub-Saharan Africa and opportunities for its future with lessons from Nigeria and Sierra Leone

   Artículos de revistas y libros

   Febrero, 2022

   África, Nigeria, Sierra Leona, Global

   Tenencia de Bosques

   Indígenas y Derechos comunales sobre la Tierra

   Tierra e Inversiones

   VGGT

   escala

   inversiones en tierras

   The reality that significant improvements in security of tenure at scale in rural Africa are still needed nearly a decade after the adoption of the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land;Fisheries and Forests (VGGT) suggests a need to explore its limitations and consider what it would take to realize its objectives. The article documents significant impacts of the VGGT reform processes and highlights illustrative or “one-off” results.

2. Library Resource

   

   Can land taxes foster sustainable development? An assessment of fiscal, distributional and implementation issues

   Land Use Policy Volume 78

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Noviembre, 2018

   Indonesia, Nicaragua, Panamá, Perú, Rwanda, Estados Unidos de América

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Evaluación

   Desarrollo

   Impuesto a la tierra

   Utilización de la tierra

   Investigación

   Desarrollo sostenible

   Economists argue that land rent taxation is an ideal form of taxation as it causes no deadweight losses. Nevertheless, pure land rent taxation is rarely applied. This paper revisits the case of land taxation for developing countries. We first provide an up-to-date review on land taxation in development countries, including feasibility and implementation challenges. We then simulate land tax reforms for Rwanda, Peru, Nicaragua and Indonesia, based on household surveys.

3. Library Resource

   

   Lineage and land reforms in Malawi: Do matrilineal and patrilineal landholding systems represent a problem for land reforms in Malawi?

   Land Use Policy Volume 41

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Noviembre, 2014

   Malawi, Noruega, Estados Unidos de América

   Indígenas y Derechos comunales sobre la Tierra

   Tierra y Género

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Reforma de la tenencia de la tierra

   Tenencia de la tierra

   modos de aprovechamiento

   Utilización de la tierra

   Linaje

   Linaje matrilineal

   Linaje patrilineal

   Investigación

   Based on government statistics and interviews with villagers across Malawi this article argues that customary matrilineal and patrilineal land tenure systems serve to weaken security of land tenure for some family members as well as obstructing the creation of gender-neutral inheritance of lands. Data from the National Census of Agriculture and Livestock 2007and the 2008 Population and Housing Census are used to characterize marriage systems and landholding patterns of local communities. Marriage systems correspond to customary land-tenure patterns of matrilineal or patrilineal cultures.

4. Library Resource

   

   How and why large scale agricultural land investments do not create long-term employment benefits: A critique of the ‘state’ of labour regulations in Ghana

   Land Use Policy Volume 95

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Junio, 2020

   República Centroafricana, Ghana

   Tierra e Inversiones

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   inversiones en tierras

   Utilización de la tierra

   Investigación

   escala

   Support for large scale agricultural investments in Africa has been mainly premised on their employment prospects for local populations. However, despite earlier calls by Tania Li to centre labour in the land grabs debate, labour is generally invisible in both mainstream policy and academic research. This paper, through a governance lens, draws attention to the implications of the global land rush on wage labour.

5. Library Resource

   

   Assessing the relationship between land tenure issues and land cover changes around the Arabuko Sokoke Forest in Kenya

   Land Use Policy Volume 95

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Junio, 2020

   Kenya, Noruega

   Indígenas y Derechos comunales sobre la Tierra

   Tierra e Inversiones

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Sistemas de información geográfica

   cobertura de suelos

   Alteración de la cubierta vegetal

   inversiones en tierras

   Derechos de tierras

   Tenencia de la tierra

   Utilización de la tierra

   Investigación

   Land as an essential resource is becoming increasingly scarce due to population growth. In the case of the Kenyan coast, population pressure causes land cover changes in the Arabuko Sokoke Forest, which is an important habitat for endangered species. Forest and bushland have been changed to agricultural land in order to provide livelihood for the rural population who are highly dependent on small-scale farming. Unclear land rights and misbalanced access to land cause uncontrolled expansion and insecure livelihoods.

6. Library Resource

   

   Expanding commodity frontiers and the emergence of customary land markets: A case study of tree-crop farming in Venda, South Africa

   Land Use Policy Volume 101

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Febrero, 2021

   África austral, Sudáfrica

   Indígenas y Derechos comunales sobre la Tierra

   Tierra e Inversiones

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Utilización de la tierra

   Mercado de tierras

   Derechos de tierras

   Investigación

   Pequeños agricultores

   Contemporary discourses on customary land tenure in Africa, and South Africa in particular, have emphasized the socially embedded and flexible nature of customary land rights, recognising these as inherently more ‘pro-poor’ than individual titling. Based on in-depth interviews and participant observations in Venda, a former homeland in South Africa, this paper explores how in the context of expanding commodity frontiers, customary land markets have emerged, leading to de facto privatisation of customary land.

7. Library Resource

   

   Female labor outcomes and large-scale agricultural land investments: Macro-micro evidencefrom Tanzania

   Land Use Policy Volume 82

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Marzo, 2019

   Tanzania

   Tierra e Inversiones

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   inversiones en tierras

   Utilización de la tierra

   Investigación

   escala

   This paper examined the extent to which Large-scale Agricultural Land Investments (LALIs) has delivered on its promises (e.g. increased productivity, job creation, and rural development, particularly for rural women). We conducted empirical analyses using the Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) dataset (macro evidence), which was complemented with two case studies of LALIs in Kilombero district, Morogoro region, Tanzania (micro evidence). The findings from the study revealed that the LALIs have limited effect on agricultural wage.

8. Library Resource

   

   Are land rental markets responding to rising population pressures and land scarcity in sub-Saharan Africa?

   Land Use Policy Volume 101

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Febrero, 2021

   Etiopía, Malawi, Tanzania, República Centroafricana

   Tierra e Inversiones

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Utilización de la tierra

   Mercado de tierras

   Renta de la tierra

   Investigación

   Although still at incipient stages in most areas, agricultural land markets in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are growing rapidly. While the literature on the region’s land markets is expanding, there has been little attention thus far paid to the drivers of land rental prices. We know quite little about whether and how land markets and land contracts respond to meso-scale factors such as spatial variations in land abundance, or to micro-level factors, such as household land endowments.