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Global Landscapes Forum Bonn 2019: Outcome Statement

Reports & Research
Conference Papers & Reports
May, 2019
Global

In the face of the climate crisis and threats to food security, a safe water supply and biodiversity, GLF Bonn 2019 sought to hear the voices of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, women and youth – all of those with the greatest stake in confronting such global challenges. The forum did not avoid identifying hurdles, most of which stem from conflicting rights and interests, that hinder cooperation to rapidly secure the rights to a healthy life for present and future generations.

A GUIDE TO PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE ON PRIVATE MAILO LAND

Training Resources & Tools
January, 2018
Africa
Uganda

Mailo tenure is the most legislated form of tenure in Uganda, having its origins in the 1900 Buganda Agreement. Reforms over the years have seen the evolution of this tenure that is essentially freehold in nature, albeit with its local characteristics arising out of an unresolved tenant question. This status quo was reinstated in the 1995 Constitution, the Land Act and its subsequent amendments. Whereas it is expected that reforms introduced by the Constitution and Land Act would suffice in stabilizing Mailo tenure, this has not happened in practice.

Guidelines for the Procedure of Land Identification and Verification for Commercial Agricultural Investment

Reports & Research
May, 2019
Ethiopia

The promotion of commercialized and mechanized agriculture is considered as one possible contribution to the further economic development efforts in Ethiopia. In addition to the traditional farming sector, which is predominantly characterized by smallholders and subsistence farming, large-scale agricultural investments are expected to provide input for the processing industry, bring foreign currency as well as technology transfer to the country.

Le rôle de l'enregistrement des titres dans la fragmentation et les cas de propriété multiple

Conference Papers & Reports
November, 1970
Ethiopia
United Kingdom
Africa

La propriété multiple peut-être nuisible dans la mesure ou elle fait

obstacle à la négociabilité de la terre, négociabilité qu'elle finira par détruire, et par cela même elle peut souvent influencer l'usage que l'on fait de cette terre.

Measures for the improvement of women's land holding and land rights

Reports & Research
December, 1989
Africa

The problem of low productivity is fundamental to the long-term deteriorating trend in agricultural and per capita food production that has characterized African agriculture during the past decades. Widespread desertification and degradation of African farmlands and the present heavy dependence on natural rainfall which are some of the causes of low productivity, reflect the inability of African member States to sufficiently invest in and develop technologies and farming systems suitable for adoption by small farmers.

Land ownership versus development in the era of globalisation : a trajectory of conflict and wealth accumulation in Southern Nigeria

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Nigeria

This study investigates the attendant effect of unregulated land acquisition by governments and investment partners, forceful dispossession and displacement of individuals and communities in the era of globalization and wealth creation by increasingly capitalist regimes in southern Nigeria. The investigation of the trajectory of wealth and conflict resulting from this phenomenon is the key focus of this research.

The system of registration in Ghana

Conference Papers & Reports
November, 1970
Ghana

The original and primary owners of lands in. Ghana are the stools or skins. Families and individuals do own lands, the original titles to which are derived from stools or skins- Before 1957, all lands of what was called the Northern Territories were held in trust for the chiefs of the Northern Territories try the Governor whilst Ashanti lands, having being occupied as a result of conquest, were British Crown lands.

Land ownership versus development in the era of globalisation: a trajectory of conflict and wealth accumulation in Southern Nigeria

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Nigeria

This study investigates the attendant effect of unregulated land acquisition by governments and investment partners, forceful dispossession and displacement of individuals and communities in the era of globalisation and wealth creation by increasingly capitalist regimes in southern Nigeria. The investigation of the trajectory of wealth and conflict resulting from this phenomenon is the key focus of this research.

The role of registration of title in fragmentation and multiple ownership of land : submitted by the government of the United Kingdom

Conference Papers & Reports
October, 1970
Africa

The discoveries of science and new technologies it has not yet always proved possible to do so. therefore continue to use resources, which might otherwise be put to more productive purposes, -on curing those who contract these diseases and in trying to prevents or at least minimize the chances of, their recurrence. The conditions known as 'fragmentation' and 'multiple ownership when the Reach severe, proportions can fairly be described; as diseases of land tenure".

Land registration in the United States

Conference Papers & Reports
November, 1970
Africa

Man instinctively and intelligently takes care of himself as well as he can, and man does this test in a society of fellow humans. The natural human priority is self-preservation and fulfillment, but in the framework of the human group- where responsibilities to others give meaning to rights that each individual asserts for himself and can test us as individualst even as it sustains us- Land can unify

and ennoble us as groups, even as it tempts us to indulge the more provincial among social concerns.

Rural progress : the role of production cooperatives in africa

Reports & Research
December, 1987
Africa

Many countries are today confronted with the challenging tasks of improving the level of living and the productive capacities of their people especially in the spheres of agriculture and food production. While governments are mainly concerned with providing structural support the actual implementation lies with the individuals, who in the final analysis are the farmers and the rural population.