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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
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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Agricultural Credits Act, 2010 (No. 35 of 2010).

Legislation
November, 2010
Zambia
Land Conflicts
land dispute resolution
land registration
This Act provides with respect to a system of charge, lien or assignments on agricultural goods and warehouse receipts for credit, and for supervision and the registration and certification of warehouses and for these and other purposes establishes the Warehouse Licensing Authority. The Authority shall be a body corporate and shall: (a) certify warehouses; (b) approve negotiable warehouse receipt books; and (c) perform any other function incidental or conducive to the carrying out of its functions under this Act or any other law.
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Role of Land Governance in Improving Tenure Security in Zambia: Towards a Strategic Framework for Preventing Land Conflicts

Journal Articles & Books
August, 2017
Zambia
Land Conflicts
cadastral administration
land conflicts
land dispute resolution
land governance
land-use planning
landlessness
property
tenure security
Zambia is one of the countries in Africa with a high frequency of land conflicts. The conflicts over land lead to tenure insecurity. In response to the increasing number of land conflicts, the Zambian Government has undertaken measures to address land conflicts, but the measures are mainly curative in nature. But a conflict sensitive land governance framework should address both curative and preventive measures.
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Contestation, Confusion and Corruption: Market-Based Land Reform in Zambia

Reports & Research
November, 2005
Zambia, Africa
Land Conflicts
Land & Investments
land
land administration
displacement
land speculation
land reform
corruption
Following introductory historical sections, paper focuses on the impact of land-market reform at the village level – including the extent of conversions, conversions for elites, land speculation, displacement, enclosures, conflict and resistance – and on the (mal)administration of land. Concludes that the benefits of market-based land reform have accrued to local elites and outside investors. Land administration has proved highly malleable and is subject to perversion by local elites, traditional rulers, outside investors, and government officials.
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Large-Scale Land Acquisitions, Displacement and Resettlement in Zambia

Reports & Research
June, 2015
Zambia, Africa
Land Conflicts
scale
displacement
land acquisitions
land
Includes key issues; the rise of development-induced displacements; key findings on the resettlement process; evaluating the proposed National Resettlement Policy; recommendations. Brief argues reforms need to be cognisant of the ways and means in which communities have been displaced and resettled in recent cases of land-based investments, and learn lessons from them.
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Zambia Draft Land Policy (executive summary)

Reports & Research
November, 2002
Zambia, Africa
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land
land dispute
land tenure
environment
land allocation
land delivery
Comprises executive summary, introduction, and chapters on historical perspective of land tenure, situation analysis, land policy objectives and strategies, institutional framework, and funding. The main emphasis is to address the problems of the land delivery system to ensure equitable access to land resources. Includes sections on land tenure and land allocation to foreigners, environmental issues, land disputes and gender – the Policy seeks to redress gender imbalances and other forms of discrimination in land tenure.
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The Impact of National Land Policy and Land Reform on Women in Zambia

Reports & Research
November, 2010
Zambia, Africa
Land Conflicts
Land & Gender
land
land dispute
land grabbing
land law
land rights
land reform
title deeds
women
Includes background to women’s land rights in Zambia; policy and legal reforms of the1990s; key findings – gender insensitivity on land laws and policies, the high cost of legal fees to handle land disputes, the limited benefits of title deeds for women, lack of awareness on land policy process, land grabbing and disinheritance, lack of security of tenure, lack of access to justice; conclusions and recommendations.
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Land Administration in Zambia After 1991

History, Opportunities and Challenges From the 1995 Lands Act

Journal Articles & Books
February, 2014
Zambia
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
agricultural land management
alienation (land)
collective ownership
community land rights
customary land rights
The Land tenure system in Zambia is divided in the following administrative segments: colonial period

1880-1964; immediate post independence 1964-1975, post independence period of one party political
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Land Tenure, Land Markets, and Institutional Transformation in Zambia

Reports & Research
October, 1995
Zambia
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
community land rights
customary land rights
The Government of Zambia is embarking on an ambitious program of legal and administrative reforms in land policy. Although the need to liberalize the land market is universally shared, the ideas on how to accomplish this transformation are not. Two decades of underinvestment in field research have resulted in the present situation of micro-level data on land tenure and farm-level production, consumption, and resource management inadequate to guide policy decisions.
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Assessment of Land Governance System in Preventing State Land Conflicts in Zambia

Journal Articles & Books
August, 2017
Zambia
Land Conflicts
community land rights
compulsory acquisitions
customary land rights
displacement
dispossession
The purpose of the research is to assess the land governance system in preventing state land conflicts in Zambia. In order to obtain insights about the actual realities on the ground, based on a case study strategy (i.e. Lusaka District has a study area), the research examined the present status of state land governance system, and investigated the efficiency of the present state land governance system in preventing state land conflicts.