In June, Ethiopian State Minister of Agriculture Ato Sileshi Getahun joined USAID/Ethiopia Mission Director Dennis Weller, to officially launch the Land Administration to Nurture Development (LAND) project. The LAND project builds on the success of two previous USAID projects that supported the certification of rural land rights, the reform of federal and regional laws governing land administration and land use, and the strengthening of government capacity to administer these rights.
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Library ResourceAugust, 2013Ethiopia
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Library ResourceJune, 2013Ethiopia
Recent stories from Burma and Ethiopia illustrate the contentious issues surrounding the large-scale acquisition of land for agricultural production. In Ethiopia, the government may be re-assessing its policy of granting large tracts of land to investors, reducing the size of initial allocations and increasing the scrutiny of investors' capacity to achieve their proposed plans and fulfill contractual obligations.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksMarch, 2013Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia
This article discusses how one group is contributing to critical thinking about how the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGs) are implemented. The Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC) - an Africa-based alliance of agricultural research organizations - is both tracking implementation of the VGs and launching a study that will, among other things, investigate the multiple pressures toward the commercialization of land and the resulting impacts on land rights in Southern Africa.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2011Ethiopia
This paper assesses factors related to local land border conflicts and how low cost land registration and certification has affected land conflicts during and after land registration and certification using data from northern Ethiopia. Border conflicts were more common near district centers, further away from markets, and where property rights had been redistributed more recently.
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A study of northern Kenya
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2011KenyaA series of papers on land use administration, land use change, securing of rights to resources and other in Laikipia, Kenya.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2010Kenya
In land administration (LA), the right to exercising property/ownership rights on land is based on cadastral processes of adjudication, survey and rights registration. Private ownership rights are now being taken up in pastoral areas, where they must contend with pastoralists’ land rights. Pastoral land use
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2014Global, Uganda
The Social Tenure Domain Model offers practical solutions and opportunities for land professionals, researchers, grassroots organisations and government authorities. These opportunities include the empowerment of the grassroots communities to develop and manage their own information systems (and their own data), with all the benefits of the advanced technologies can offer, with less investment in resources and with less reliance on highly paid experts. Land professionals can also make their services available to all and offer people-centred and affordable solutions.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2013Western Africa, Africa
En marge de l’Assemblée Générale de la Fédération des Géomètres Francophones (FGF), ONU-Habitat et le Réseau Mondial des Instruments Fonciers (GLTN), a organisé une séance de formation sur la bonne gouvernance foncière.
Cette rencontre technique et scientifique a réuni 130 experts géomètres, du secteur privé, du secteur public, enseignants, étudiants, venus de 13 pays d’Afrique Subsaharienne et d’Europe. -
Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2012Global, Africa
Cette publication est le sommaire du rapport de l'atelier regional d'apprentissage sur la 'Securite de la tenure fonciere et des ressources naturelles'. L'atelier qui s'est tenu a Nairobi, Kenya du 29 au 31 mai a ete conjointement organise par ONU-Habitat/Reseau Mondial des Instruments Fonciers (GLTN) et le Fonds international de developpement agricole (FIDA).
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2010Botswana
Tribal land management constitutes the largest of the three main tenure types that prevail in Botswana (tribal, State, and freehold). The land inventory is a means to support land administration, land development, land use planning, land transactions and natural resources management in Botswana. The land inventory is currently web based and GIS-enabled through the Tribal Land Information Management Systems and the State Land Information Management System. These systems now play a key role in land-related policy and management decisions.
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