Kenya is the most recent African state to acknowledge customary tenure as producing lawful property rights, not merely rights of occupation and use on government or public lands. This paper researches this new legal environment. This promises land security for 6 to 10 million Kenyans, most of who are members of pastoral or other poorer rural communities. Analysis is prefaced with substantial background on legal trends continentally, but the focus is on Kenya’s Community Land Act, 2016, as the framework through which customary holdings are to be identified and registered.

Este artículo busca mostrar cómo ocurrió el despojo y la concentración de tierras baldías, y el desarrollo del conflicto en Puerto Gaitán y Mapiripán entre 1980 y 2010. A partir del análisis de registros públicos, mapas y entrevistas realizadas en terreno, este trabajo concluyó que los mecanismos desarrollados por el gobierno para desarrollar una reforma agraria no garantizaron seguridad en los derechos de propiedad, desatando constantes ciclos de despojo.

El autor propone una revisión sobre las causas estructurales del fenómeno de desplazamiento forzado superando la mirada nacional y en rigor el nacionalismo metodológico que en el caso colombiano, explica como causa intestina del desplazamiento forzado: el conflicto armado interno colombiano. Dicha lectura alimenta la construcción normativa jurídica y de las políticas que enfrentan el fenómeno, se describe en este contexto el papel que juegan actores globales y locales.

En el artículo, basado en tres estudios sobre tenencia de la tierra en los municipios atendidos por el programa de Desarrollo Rural Integrado –DRI- en los departamentos de Córdoba (1986), Sucre y Atlántico (1987) se ilustran las ideas principales, relativas a la reforma agraria, que se desprenden de los mismos. Así: 1. la reforma debería afectar los predios de todos los tamaños pertenecientes a los terratenientes; 2. es necesario un plan de reforma que afecte tierras fértiles y bien situadas; 3.

The following article is a research report that exposes the methodological design in a series of indicators that allow you to set the state of the Effective Enjoyment of Rights (EER) of the population in situation of displacement in the State of Antioquia. The EER report was made from mandates arising from the Colombian Constitutional Court in the i n t e r e s t o f t h e o v e r c o m i n g o f t h e unconstitutional state of affairs for the attention of the population victim of displacement.

El conflicto armado interno en Colombia por más de 50 años, ha generado y se sigue presentando el desplazamiento forzado de personas desde las zonas rurales a las zonas urbanas instalándose con sus familias en ciudades cercanas a donde se presentan los hechos y otros logran instalarse en las ciudades capitales en busca de un espacio para poder rehacer su vida e instalarse en un nuevo hábitat, situación que lo obliga a solicitar ayuda al Estado y ser reconocido como desplazado para que le protejan sus derechos mínimos vitales para la subsistencia -- El Estado colombiano ante este fenómeno no

Desde inicios del siglo XXI, la Gestión Integrada de los Recursos Hídricos (GIRH) se ha constituido en el modelo referente de manejo del agua a nivel mundial. Organismos multilaterales, como el Banco Mundial o el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, y organizaciones internacionales, como la Global Water Partnership, han impulsado reformas institucionales en diversos países con el fin de instaurar un modelo de gobernanza que cristalice los principios de la GIRH.

In much of Central and Eastern Europe, the land tenure structure includes many small and fragmented farms. Land consolidation can be an effective instrument to make agriculture more competitive and to improve rural conditions. This guide provides advice on what countries can do to start a land consolidation pilot project. It shows why land consolidation is important; it describes briefly what land consolidation is; and it identifies key decisions that should be made and key actions that should be undertaken before a land consolidation project can begin.

The present volume is part of a series of Land Tenure Studies produced by FAO’s Land Tenure Service of the Rural Development Division. Land tenure plays a vital role in achieving sustainable rural development. Increasing technological change and economic integration are requiring policy makers, planners, development experts and rural producers to re-examine the institutional arrangements used to administer who has rights to what resources for which purposes and for how long.

Gender issues are often ignored in projects that aim to improve land tenure and land administration. To support land administrators in governments and their counterparts in civil society, this guide shows where and why gender inclusion is important in projects. In order to help inform policy and implementation decisions, it identifies indicators for measuring the quality and quantity of access to land before, during and after an intervention and outlines recommended principles for gender inclusion in land administration projects.

Increasingly land tenure institutions are required to support the decentralization of services to local governments. One expectation of decentralization is improved delivery of services by the level of government that is closest to the beneficiaries of those services. While the scope of services being allocated to local governments has expanded, many rural local governments lack the revenues needed for them to fulfil their new responsibilities. This guide provides advice to countries that wish to increase revenues by introducing rural property taxes.

Violent conflicts typically cause significant changes to land tenure and its administration. A widespread conflict
lasting for a number of years may result in successive waves of displacement of people. People may lose their land because they have been forcibly evicted, or they may abandon their land because of fear of violence. Those displaced are forced to seek land to settle, either within the country as Internally Displaced Persons, or externally as refugees. People living in safer areas may have lost access to their land with the