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USAID and the Government of Ethiopia launch the Land Administration to Nurture Development (LAND) Program

August, 2013
Ethiopia
land
land administration
property
development
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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Dealing with Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: Lessons for Burma

June, 2013
Ethiopia
Land & Investments
land
land acquisitions
property
scale
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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Examining the Impacts of Large-Scale Land Transactions

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2013
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia
VGGT
scale
land
land transactions
property
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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Can land registration and certification reduce land border conflicts?

January, 2011
Ethiopia
land policies
land registration
land economics
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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Pastoralists seasonal land rights in land administration

A study of northern Kenya

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Kenya
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
property law
common property
land governance
land policies
legal empowerment
cadastres
natural resources management
A series of papers on land use administration, land use change, securing of rights to resources and other in Laikipia, Kenya.
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Pastoralism within Land Administration in Kenya - The Missing Link

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2010
Kenya
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
common property
land governance
land conflicts
cadastres
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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Addressing the Information Requirements of the Urban Poor - STDM Pilot in Uganda

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2014
Global, Uganda
Urban Tenure
informal settlements
land information systems
land titling
tenure security
urbanization
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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Assemblée Générale de la FGF et Université de perfectionnementdes Géomètres Francophones d’Afrique Subsaharienne (Ouagadougou Report)

Reports & Research
January, 2013
Western Africa, Africa
geographical information systems
land management
land tenure
tenure security
surveyors
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.
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Atelier régional d’apprentissage sur la sécurité d’occupation des terres et des ressources naturelles

Reports & Research
January, 2012
Global, Africa
geographical information systems
land access
land governance
land rights
tenure security
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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Land Inventory in Botswana: Processes and Lessons

Reports & Research
January, 2010
Botswana
Land & Investments
geographical information systems
land administration
land management
land tenure systems
land transfers
land-use planning
natural resources management
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.