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Land administration in Bangladesh: Problems and analytical approach to solution

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2017
Bangladesh

Rapid population growth combined with fast rate of land transfer and land conversion urges for an effective land administration and management in Bangladesh. But the land administration system in Bangladesh is corrupt, inefficient, and unreliable and inherently contains systematic weaknesses. It proliferates and perpetuates the endemic nature of land disputes. Nearly 80 percent of court cases in the rural areas are estimated to be related to land-conflicts.

Piaţa de vânzare-cumpărare ca mijloc de consolidare a terenurilor agricole

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2010
Moldova

The article is focused on the investigation of the land consolidation through purchase and sale land market development in Moldova. First, it describes land market development and its impact on land re- parceling. Second, it analyzes legal restrictions of buying land for foreign investors and its negative impact on land consolidation and agricultural development. Third, it shows the impediment of high transaction costs on the alleviation of high level of land fragmentation and proposes several solutions for its elimination.

LAND MARKET DYNAMICS ON AN EXPANDING FRONTIER: INVESTMENT IN BRAZIL

Conference Papers & Reports
February, 2016
Latin America and the Caribbean
South America
Brazil

In the last years the Brazilian agricultural frontier is expanding towards the cerrado region, more specifically the region called MATOPIBA, comprised of savannah areas of four different states located in the north and northeastern parts of the country. This research paper aims to show a recent pattern of second wave investments in the frontier aimed at inferior quality land.

The Stolen Lands of Afghanistan and its People

Reports & Research
February, 2015
Afghanistan

The second in a series of three reports entitled, “The Stolen Lands of Afghanistan and its People; The State Land Distribution System,” this report focuses on how state lands are distributed. This paper is the result of a desktop review and joint research by the UNAMA Rule of Law Unit (RoL) and the Civil Affairs Unit (CAU) in seven provinces—Kabul, Nangarhar, Kunduz, Balkh, Herat, Gardez, and Kandahar.

IMPROVING TENURE SECURITY FOR THE RURAL POOR

Reports & Research
September, 2006
Mali

Has 3 main chapters: modes of access to land and natural resources and the tenure situation of the poor and marginalized groups (customary rules, statutory law, development of commercial transactions); some ways of securing land rights for the poor and other vulnerable groups (local resource management agreements, formalization of collective rights and of land transactions, access to justice); can the necessary reforms be carried out?

Problématique Maraîchère Induite Par La Nouvelle Dynamique Foncière Autour Des Bas-Fonds Urbains À Bouaké (Côte D’ivoire)

Journal Articles & Books
April, 2018
Côte d'Ivoire

L’agriculture urbaine en Côte d’Ivoire constitue une activité importante en termes de sécurité alimentaire, d’emploi et de réponse aux problèmes environnementaux. Cependant à Bouaké, cette agriculture et principalement le maraîchage urbain fait face à une nouvelle dynamique foncière autour des bas-fonds intra-urbains. Cette situation est consécutive à l’émergence de nouveaux acteurs en raison des enjeux nouveaux que représentent les bas-fonds.

Du groupe à l’individu

Journal Articles & Books
July, 2018
Burkina Faso

Au sud-ouest du Burkina Faso, les pressions sur les terres sont de plus en plus fortes, surtout en pays gouin dans le département de Niangoloko. En effet, la croissance de la population consécutive à l’afflux des migrants venant des autres régions du pays et de la Côte d’Ivoire fait progresser rapidement les taux d’occupation de l’espace, compromettant ainsi la « générosité » des autochtones.

Weak Land Governance, Fraud and Corruption: Fertile Ground for Land Grabbing

Reports & Research
November, 2021
Brazil

Fraud and corruption are the main enabling mechanisms for land abuses in Brazil, guaranteeing impunity for land grabbers and other public and private agents involved in these schemes. This is what is evidenced in the research report, “Weak land governance, fraud and corruption: fertile ground for land grabbing,” which systematizes for the first time the relationship between these issues. Thereby, the study seeks to understand precisely why and how corruption and fraud associated with land grabbing occur.  

Liberal land reform in Kazakhstan? The effect on land rental and credit markets

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2020
Kazakhstan

This study analyses the effect of Kazakhstan’s 2003–2005 agricultural land reform on land rental and credit market participation. Although the reform declared an intention to facilitate efficient land alloca- tion, we observe a major land concentration. We analyze whether new land relations stimulated land sales and rental markets and made credit more accessible.

Capital, labor, and gender: the consequences of large-scale land transactions on household labor allocation

May, 2019
Ethiopia

Contemporary large-scale land transactions (LSLTs), also called land grabs, are historically unprecedented in their scale and pace. They have provoked robust scholarly debates, yet studies of their gender-differentiated impacts remain more rare, particularly when it comes to how changes in control over land and resources affect women's labor, and thereby their livelihoods and well-being.