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Bulletin d’information bimestriel de l’Observatoire Régional du Foncier rural en Afrique de l’Ouest (ORFAO) Numéro 01 | Octobre 2021

Reports & Research
October, 2021
Western Sahara, Western Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Urban Tenure
land governance
land law
land policies
land reform
agrarian reform
communal territory
land acquisitions
land investments
land rights
rights of clearance
land tenure
community land rights
pastoral land rights
families
pastoralists
Le foncier est une question à la fois stratégique et centrale dans les processus de développement, et pour cause : la terre avec ses immenses ressources qu’elle englobe, est le premier intrant de la production. A ce titre, elle permet de répondre aux enjeux multiples qui ont pour noms : sécurité alimentaire, emploi agricole surtout pour les jeunes, exportation, etc.

C’est pourquoi la Commission de l’UEMOA s’est très tôt intéressée au foncier dans tous ses aspects, car étant une des questions au cœur du processus d’intégration communautaire.
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Property Rights and Resource Governance: Afghanistan

USAID Country Profile

Reports & Research
May, 2018
Afghanistan
Forest Tenure
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land governance
land law
forest law
environment
forestry
land economics
displacement
land conflicts
government
Afghanistan continues to struggle to overcome decades of war and civil strife. Its political context remains complex and dominated by the Taliban insurgency, narcotics production, weak governance and incomplete rule of law. After more than fifteen years of state building Afghanistan remains a fragile state.
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National Conference on Emerging Land Issues in Kenyan Agriculture and their Implications for Food Policy and Institutional Reforms

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2014
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
Land, Climate Change & Environment
advocacy
agrarian reform
compensation
conflicts
customary tenure
displacement
encroachment
eviction
expropriation
food security
land access
land governance
land grabbing
land management
land policies
land reform
land titling
land use
For a long time sub-Saharan Africa has been considered to have abundant and underutilized land than any other continent. On the contrary, recent studies show that many rural Africans live in increasingly densely populated areas where all arable land is allocated or under cultivation. This has led to a long-term decline in farm size and reduced fallows.
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Irregular and illegal Land Acquisition by Kenya’s Elites: Trends, Processes, and Impacts of Kenya’s Land-Grabbing Phenomenon

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
community land rights
compensation
customary land rights
customary tenure
Indigenous Peoples
land
land access
land acquisitions
land conflicts
land governance
land grabbing
land investments
land policies
land rights
land tenure
land use
The International Land Coalition (ILC) has commissioned this present report to analyze the illegal/irregular acquisition of land by Kenya’s elites to ascertain the types of land affected, the processes used to acquire land, and the profiles of the perpetrators, as well as to identify the victims and the impacts of land grabbing. The report is drawn largely from the Kenya Land Alliance (KLA)’s series “Unjust Enrichment: The Making of Land Grabbing Millionaires”,
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Commercial Biofuel Land Deals & Environment and Social Impact Assessments in Africa: Three case studies in Mozambique and Sierra Leone

Reports & Research
April, 2011
Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Africa
Land Conflicts
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
land
land deals
displacement
environment
food security
assessment
Examines 3 case studies of proposed biofuel developments in Mozambique and Sierra Leone in terms of social displacement. More mitigation measures could provide livelihood restitution and avoid negative food security impacts.
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Host country governance and the African land rush: 7 reasons why large-scale farmland investments fail to contribute to sustainable development

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Africa
Land Conflicts
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
displacement
scale
sustainable development
dispossession
land investments
research
environment
land
farmland
Contributes to the research gap on host country governance dynamics by synthesizing results and lessons from 38 case studies conducted in Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia. It shows how and why large-scale farmland investments are often synonymous with displacement, dispossession, and environmental degradation and, thereby, highlights 7 outcome determinants that merit more explicit treatment in academic and policy discourse.
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Renewable Natural Resources

Practical Lessons for Conflict-Sensitive Development

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2009
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
Urban Tenure
adjudication
capacity development
climate change
common property
farmers
food security
land degradation
land law
land management
land rights
land tenure
local communities
property rights
rural areas
sustainable development
urbanization
This paper explores how a 'conflict and violence sensitive' framework in project assessment, design and implementation facilitates early identification and mitigation of negative consequences of competition and dispute, and promotes sustainable development over the longer term. It discusses the role of renewable resources in perpetuating conflict and violence, and distills lessons from selected development programming experiences in managing conflict risks associated with these dynamics.
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Forced Displacement

The Development Challenge

Training Resources & Tools
Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2009
Land Conflicts
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
capacity development
climate change
compensation
displacement
Indigenous Peoples
natural disasters
property rights
rural areas
sustainable development
urban areas
urbanization
This note discusses the development dimensions of forced displacement, and the potential role of the World Bank to address these dimensions and contribute to durable solutions for group's who have returned from or are in displacement situations. For the purposes of this note, forced displacement refers to the situation of persons who are forced to leave or flee their homes due to conflict, violence, and human rights violations.
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The Seventh National Development Plan 2017 - 2021

Legislation & Policies
June, 2017
Zambia
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Urban Tenure
agrarian reform
agrarian structure
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
alienation (land)
land acquisitions
land administration
women
youth
Zambia remains committed to the socio-economic development planning of the country as reflected by the return to development planning in 2005. The Seventh National Development Plan (7NDP) for the period 2017- 2021 is the successor to the Revised Sixth National Development Plan, 2013-2016 (R-SNDP) following its expiry in December 2016. The Plan, like the three national development plans (NDPs) that preceded it, is aimed at attaining the long-term objectives as outlined in the Vision 2030 of becoming a “prosperous middle-income country by 2030”.
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The Structure of the Cadastral System in Kenya

Journal Articles & Books
July, 2013
Kenya
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
alienation (land)
cadastral administration
cadastral register
cadastres
land administration
land management
management rights
natural resources management
research
sustainable land management
The cadastral system in Kenya was established in 1903 to cater for land alienation for the white settlers. Since then, a hundred years later, the structure of the system has remained more or less the same despite major changes in surveying technology. The government of Kenya has realized that the current structure is not conducive to economic demands of the 21st century and is interested in re-organizing the structure in line with the current constitutional dispensation and new paradigms in land management.