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GLTN/UN-Habitat Youth Led Action Research on Land Commencement Workshop

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Kenya, Zimbabwe, Brazil, Nepal, Yemen, Global
capacity development
land governance
land rights
research
youth
The land challenge is central to the broader youth dynamics of migration, employment, livelihoods and belonging. The more than 1.8 billion youth living worldwide represent not only a land challenge, but an untapped potential in moving the tenure security agenda forward. Recognizing this, the Global Land Tool Network has partnered with UN-Habitat to develop youth responsive land tools through the Youth-led Action Research on Land program. Five action research projects will be undertaken by youth organizations in Brazil, Kenya, Nepal, Yemen and Zimbabwe.
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Climate Change, Carbon Rights, and Forest Governance

Multimedia
August, 2012
Mozambique, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mexico, Indonesia, Nepal
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
property
Policy makers and practitioners face significant governance challenges that must be addressed in order to achieve the successful long-term sequestration of carbon on forested lands.
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Rural Agricultural Livelihood Survey

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Zambia
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
co-ownership rights
customary tenure
gender equity in access to land
indigenous peoples' land rights
women
The Rural Agricultural Livelihood Survey (RALS) is a new panel survey designed to obtain a comprehensive picture of Zambia’s small- and medium-scale farming sector using the 2010 census sampling frame. An earlier household panel survey for rural Zambia was the Supplemental Surveys (SS) of 2001, 2004 and 2008, which enabled the publication of a large set of important research outputs by IAPRI, Michigan State University and a range of Zambian and international partner organizations.
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Land tenure policy and practice in Zambia

Issues relating to the development of the agricultural sector

Reports & Research
January, 2003
Zambia
Land Conflicts
agricultural and rural legislation
alienation (land)
right of access
Land policy and the proposed land tenure reforms of Government have important implications for the development of the agriculture sector in Zambia. The purpose of this report is to ‘identify the critical issues that will need to be assessed further if DFID decides to offer support to the agricultural sector.’
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Do the land-poor gain from agricultural investments? Empirical evidence from Zambia using panel data

Reports & Research
August, 2015
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
agricultural and rural legislation
customary land rights
customary tenure
In the context of the global land rush, some portray large-scale land acquisitions as a potent threat to the livelihoods of already marginalized rural farming households in Africa. In order to avoid the potential pitfall of studying a particular project that may well have atypical effects, this paper systematically investigates the impact on commercial farm wage incomes for rural smallholder households of all pledged investments in the agricultural sector in Zambia between 1994 and 2007.
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The Status of Customary Land and the Future of Smallholder Farmers Under the Current Land Administration System in Zambia

Reports & Research
October, 2015
Zambia
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
customary law
farmland
The past decade has ushered in an era of increasingly contentious land politics in Zambia, with investors, the government, and chiefs simultaneously blamed for injustices in land allocation. These conflicts over land have been exacerbated, and at times caused by the lack of transparency and available data on the status of land. While a variety of actors has real grievances with the security and efficiency of the current system of land allocation, smallholder farmers bear the brunt of the risk of continuing the status quo in land policy.
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Women and Land in Zambia

A Case Study of Small-Scale Farmers in Chenena Village, Chibombo District, Central Zambia

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2002
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
community land rights
customary land rights
land rights
The paper shows that most women in Zambia and especially in the study area suffer from insecurity in land since they do not have secure title to land under customary tenure. The results from the research which was carried out using semi structured interviews with 34 female farmers show that the majority of women farmers (62%) were not allocated land directly by headmen but got land through a male contact.
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Vulnerability and Resilience of Rural Society in Zambia: From the View Point of Land Tenure and Food Security

Reports & Research
March, 2008
Zambia
Land & Food Security
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
The paper shows that pre-colonial ecologies of agricultural systems in some parts of rural Zambia were sustainable and resilient to prevailing environmental conditions, and were therefore able to ensure relative food security, under communal land tenure. However, colonial policies of land alienation and labour migration impacted negatively on food production systems of some ethnic groups like the citemene system of the Bemba and the flood plain cultivation system of the Lozi, making them extremely vulnerable due to the absence of large numbers of males.
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Customary land reform to facilitate private investment in Zambia: achievements, potentials and limitations

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agrarian reform
agricultural and rural legislation
community land rights
customary tenure
In the name of development, governments in southern Africa are reformulating land policies to facilitate privatisation of customary land rights. It is argued that this can stimulate land markets, (foreign) private investment, access to formal credit, and enhance security of tenure (by way of holding title), thereby leading to economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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Relationship between Large-Scale Agricultural Investors and Local Communities

Lessons from Two Investments In Zambia

Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2016
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agricultural and rural legislation
agriculture
customary land rights
customary tenure
rural development
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