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Innovative Customary Land Governance in Zambia: Experiences, Lessons Learned and Emerging Impacts

Vol 3, No 1: March 2020, Special Issue 2 on Land Policy in Africa

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2020
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Corruption
Land & Gender
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
land governance
corruption
sustainable development
land rights
tenure security
women
In Zambia, security of tenure for communities residing under customary land tenure settings has in recent years increasingly come under threat owing to the pressures of high rate of urbanization, speculation, subdivision and conversion to state land, which effectively excludes marginal populations from accessing resources for their land. While customary land is a major resource for most Zambians, the inadequacy or total lack of documentation leads to tenure insecurity, making people susceptible to forced displacements, and frequent land disputes.
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Threats of Statutory Tenure on Customary Land in Zambia: Evidence from Chamuka Chiefdom in Chisamba District

Vol 3, No 1: March 2020, Special Issue 2 on Land Policy in Africa

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2020
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Conflicts
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
displacement
land tenure
land tenure systems
statutory tenure
tenure security
This chapter investigated threats of statutory tenure on customary land. The study was primarily qualitative in nature and adopted a case study approach. Using evidence from Chamuka Chiefdom in Chisamba District, Central Province, the paper concludes that there are various threats of statutory tenure on customary land. These include traditional leaders losing control over land, displacements, land disputes, investors acquire more land than what is demarcated to them by traditional leaders, traditional leaders’ not consulting their community members, corruption, and tenure insecurity.
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Communities’ role in securing customary land tenure in Zambia

Vol 1, No 2: September 2018, Special Issue on Youth and Land Governance

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2018
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
geographical information systems
land governance
land tenure
customary tenure
statutory tenure
tenure security
Community land and natural resources lie at the heart of social, political and economic life in much of rural Africa. While the Zambian government acknowledges customary tenure, it has not established required legislation needed to secure it and support to communities in their efforts to protect their lands.
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Mitigating Land Corruption through Computerisation of Statutory Land Governance Activities: Evidence from DRC, Tanzania and Zambia

Vol 3, No 3: September 2020

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2020
Tanzania, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Land & Corruption
land governance
corruption
activities
This study was on mitigating land corruption through computerisation of land governance activities that include land use planning, cadastral surveying, servicing of land, land allocation, land registration and titling and land development. Using evidence from Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and Kitwe (Zambia), the study used both primary and secondary data to conclude that despite computerisation of land governance activities in Tanzania and Zambia, corruption still persists.
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Inclusiveness of Urban Land Administration in the City of Lusaka, Zambia

Vol 2, No 2: May 2019

Peer-reviewed publication
May, 2019
Zambia
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
Urban Tenure
land administration
urban land
Many cities in developing countries are experiencing urbanization characterised by the continuous proliferation of informal settlements. This article gives an account of a study that determined the inclusiveness of land administration in the City of Lusaka using the perspective of good governance principles. The study findings shows that land administration in the City of Lusaka is not inclusive as most indicators of the five good governance principles recorded negative responses of at least 60 per cent.
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Coordination: the key to governing the water-land-food nexus in Zambia?

Reports & Research
December, 2018
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land tenure
Water- and land-related resource conflicts are the starting point of the Zambian nexus study. Zambia is endowed with abundant land and water resources, the utilisation of which offers huge potential for the country’s economic development. For this reason, the Zambian Government has planned the gradual expansion of irrigated areas throughout the country to boost agricultural production and productivity to meet domestic food demands, to supply regional and international markets, and to create income and employment for smallholders and the rural population.
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Gender-Based Violence and Land Documentation & Administration in Zambia

Emerging Lessons from Implementation

Reports & Research
November, 2020
Zambia
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
rights in divorce
land governance
land inheritance rights
conflicts
land rights
land conflicts
property rights
marital property rights
This brief draws from USAID’s experience supporting systematic land documentation in Zambia to further advance awareness and knowledge about the relationship between gender-based violence (GBV) and the access, use, and control of land and property. It aims to inform current and future design and implementation of programs that promote land-based investment and land rights (particularly women’s land rights) by civil society organizations, other donors, and the private sector.
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Spatial Variation in Tree Density and Estimated Aboveground Carbon Stocks in Southern Africa

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2016
Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Eastern Africa, Middle Africa, Southern Africa
land use
Variability in woody plant species, vegetation assemblages and anthropogenic activities derails the efforts to have common approaches for estimating biomass and carbon stocks in Africa. In order to suggest management options, it is important to understand the vegetation dynamics and the major drivers governing the observed conditions. This study uses data from 29 sentinel landscapes (4640 plots) across the southern Africa. We used T-Square distance method to sample trees.
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The Economics of Land Degradation in Africa_Benefits of Action Outweigh the Costs_A complementary report to the ELD Initiative

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2015
Angola, Burundi, Benin, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Lesotho, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Mauritania, Malawi, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Middle Africa, Southern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
desertification
environment
land degradation
Land degradation and desertification are among the biggest environmental challenges of our time. In the last 40 years, we lost nearly a third of the world’s arable farmland due to erosion, just as the number of people to be fed from it almost doubled. That’s why the UN General Assembly declared 2015 as the International Year of Soils. And the good news is that this new report shows that while Africa remains the most severely a«ected region, the benefit of taking action across the continent outweighs the cost of implementing it: not just by a little, but by a factor of seven.
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The Chinyanja Triangle in the Zambezi River Basin, Southern Africa: Status of, and Prospects for, Agriculture, Natural Resources Management and Rural Development

Conference Papers & Reports
November, 2014
Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Eastern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
farmers
land tenure
land use
research
The Chinyanja Triangle (CT) is an area inside the Zambezi
River Basin, inhabited by Chinyanja-speaking people
sharing a similar history, language and culture across
the dryland systems of the eastern province of Zambia,
southern and central regions of Malawi and Tete Province
of Mozambique. Chiefs and Chiefdoms play a critical role
in decision making and influencing social relationships. The
Zambezi River, which originates in the Kalene Hills in Zambia
is joined by ten big tributaries from six countries, and is