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Land expropriation in Palma, Mozambique

Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2022
Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Corruption
land governance
In a context of conflict affecting northern Cabo Delgado, the government approved the request for allocation of 12,000 hectares of land located in Palma in favour of the Cabo Delgado Economic Development Promotion Centre (CPD), an unknown public entity created in May 2021 and whose attributions and competences are confused with the mandate of the Integrated Development Agency of the North (ADIN). The approval of the provisional DUAT in favour of the CPD was not preceded by a public consultation with affected communities, as required by land legislation.
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Tierras y conflictos rurales

Historias, políticas agrarias y protagonistas

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Colombia
Land & Corruption
land policies
land conflicts
Este informe documenta y analiza los cambios en la estructura de la propiedad agraria en Colombia durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX y la primera década del siglo XXI. Se examina primero la legislación agraria y el reparto de tierras baldías en la primera mitad del siglo XX, para ver en perspectiva histórica la configuración de la estructura de la propiedad rural y establecer el peso que en esta han tenido las políticas de tierras del Estado colombiano.
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BTI 2022 Country Report: Georgia

Reports & Research
February, 2022
Georgia
Land & Corruption
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
gender equity
land governance
corruption
environment
land economics
land investments
government
The governing Georgian Dream party (GD) continues to control all branches of the state. Although the UNM-led opposition put pressure on the GD government, it won a third term in allegedly fraudulent parliamentary elections on October 31, 2020. The opposition refused to take up their seats in the new parliament, which led to a political deadlock. The crisis peaked when Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia resigned in February 2021 over his personal refusal to arrest UNM opposition leader Nikanor Melia.
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The politics of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush

June, 2013
Land & Corruption
land
land investments
scale
research
The most recent ‘land rush’ precipitated by the convergent ‘crises’ of fuel, feed and food in 2007–2008 has heightened the debate on the consequences of land investments, with widespread media coverage, policy commentary and civil society engagement. This ‘land rush’ has been accompanied by a ‘literature rush’, with a fast-growing body of reports, articles, tables and books with varied purposes, metrics and methods. Land grabbing, as it is popularly called, is now a hot political topic around the world, discussed amongst the highest circles.
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Land grabbing and the making of an authoritarian populist regime in Hungary

March, 2019
Hungary
Land & Corruption
land grabbing
rural areas
How do authoritarian populist regimes emerge within the European Union in the twenty-first century? In Hungary, land grabbing by oligarchs have been one of the pillars maintaining Prime Minister Orbán’s regime. The phenomenon remains out of the public purview and meets little resistance as the regime-controlled media keeps Hungarians ‘distracted’ with ‘dangers’ inflicted by the ‘enemies of the Hungarian people’ such as refugees and the European Union.
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Political and Economic Reforms in Kazakhstan Under President Tokayev

Reports & Research
November, 2021
Kazakhstan
Land & Corruption
land governance
corruption
land reform
land markets
land economics
land dispute
government
land rights activists
Kazakhstan’s leaders have long harbored ambitious visions for their country’s future. The country’s first President, Nursultan Nazarbayev, launched several far-reaching goals for the country’s development, most notably in 2012 the “Kazakhstan 2050” strategy, which aimed for Kazakhstan to take a place among the world’s 30 most developed states by mid-century.
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BTI 2022 Country Report Kazakhstan

Reports & Research
January, 2022
Kazakhstan
Land & Corruption
Land & Gender
Land Conflicts
COVID-19
gender equity
corruption
land economics
land conflicts
land dispute
women
In 2019, the long-awaited transition of presidential power from Nursultan Nazarbayev to his anointed successor Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev took place. However, Nazarbayev continues to wield power. Among his many positions is the chair-for-life of the National Security Council, a constitutional body that has effective veto power over key policy decisions.
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The Significance Of The Land Issue Has Not Yet Been Realized By The Authorities Of Kazakhstan

Reports & Research
September, 2021
Kazakhstan
Land & Corruption
Land Conflicts
corruption
poverty
land grabbing
landlessness
land conflicts
land dispute
land rights activists
rural population
By creating a land commission, the Kazakh authorities managed to bring down the protest rallies in 2016, when, under pressure from citizens, the government was forced to abandon the sale and lease of land to foreigners. The goal of the national patriots was achieved, but the key issue for the citizens remained unresolved – the mechanism and procedures for the return of land to the people of Kazakhstan, sold by the authorities as a result of massive corruption deals and now belonging to oligarchs – “land barons”, has not been created by law.
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Peri-urban land grabbing? dilemmas of formalising tenure and land acquisitions around the cities of Bamako and Ségou, Mali

Journal Articles & Books
July, 2018
Mali
Land & Corruption
periurban areas
land acquisitions
land tenure
tenure security
This brief note identifies the consequences of land acquisitions in peri-urban spaces around the cities of Bamako and Ségou, Mali. This contributes to debates surrounding the rapid expansion of African cities faced with rapid rural-urban migration and new arrivals settling in precarious conditions. West Africa has a long history of urbanisation, in some cases accompanied by highly productive and intensified land use.
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Housing, land and property rights as war financing commodities: A typology with lessons from Darfur, Colombia and Syria

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2022
Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Western Asia, Europe, Oceania, Global
Land & Corruption
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
Urban Tenure
land documentation
land records
land registration
deed registration
land governance
post-conflict settings
expropriation
land law
conflicts
land acquisitions
land ownership
The ongoing use of landscape-based conflict commodities — diamonds and other minerals, timber, wildlife, etc. — to finance wars continues to evolve. The success with which such commodities can be transacted to support militaries, militias and insurgencies has led belligerents to innovate with additional commodities. Housing, land and property (HLP) rights within war zones have belatedly joined the list of conflict commodities that are subject to transaction, and to such an extent as to warrant significant concern.