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    Focus on Land in Africa: Ghana Lesson Brief, Women's Evolving Land Rights

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Africa

    This lesson brief presents the situations faced by modern Ghanaian women and compare their evolving land rights across regions. It is part of the Focus on Land in Africa: Land Tenure and Property Rights online educational tool.

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    Focus on Land in Africa: Ghana Lesson Brief, Rising Demand for Land and Tenure Insecurity in Ghana

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Africa

    This lesson brief discusses how statuatory law and customary law  frame the rights of customary authorities to transact in the land that they govern, and compare this to what is happening in practice.

  3. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Eastern Africa

    This Policy brief provides a summary into women’s land tenure issues in East Africa. The brief aims to highlight the gap between women’s land tenure security and the policy provisions to secure women’s access to land. The brief is aimed at policymakers, administrators, women in the community, intermediary institutions and non-governmental institutions who work to improve women’s access to land.

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    PLAAS Policy Brief 32

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2010
    South Africa

    The recent Constitutional Court judgment rendering the Communal Land Rights Act (CLARA) unconstitutional (Tongoane and Others v Minister for Agriculture and Land Affairs and Others) must not be allowed to throw decentralisation policy making into disarray. Decentralisation holds much potential for lively, participatory democratic law making and enforcement, through which rural women can gain greater power and secure more rights. 

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    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Africa

    We, the participants in the African Women’s Land Rights Conference committed to advancing women´s rights, having met in Nairobi from the 30th of May to 2nd of June 2011 to inform and review the progress made in the advancement of women’s rights to land, property and freedom from sexual and gender based violence.

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    Focus on Africa: Kenya Lesson Brief, Government Control of Private Land Use

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Africa

    This lesson brief looks at the government's control of private land use in Kenya. It is part of the Focus on Africa: Land Tenure and Property Rights online educational tool. Like other governments around the world, Kenya’s government has the authority to extinguish or restrict property rights over land and natural resources, including the authority to restrict the use of privately-held land for national and public interest purposes. Private land use restrictions have been used for environmental management and are increasingly being considered for biodiversity conservation purposes.

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    Focus on Africa: Kenya Lesson Brief, Group Ranches

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Africa

    This lesson brief follows the modernization of pastoral livestock production in Kenya. This lesson brief is part of the Focus on Africa: Land Tenure and Property Rights online educational tool. Rangelands and pastoralists in Kenya have received considerable attention from government.

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    Focus on Land in Africa: Tanzania Lesson Brief, Wildlife Management Areas

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Africa

    This lesson brief explores the decentralization of wildlife user rights and their impact on local communities in Tanzania.

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    Focus on Land in Africa: Tanzania Lesson Brief, Biofuels

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Africa

    This lesson brief explores alternative biofuel production schemes in Tanzania and their impacts on rural land rights and local livelihoods.

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    Focus on Land in Africa: Tanzania Lesson Brief, Village Land

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Africa

    This lesson brief looks at the history of customary land rights and examines the current conditions regarding Village Land and customary tenure arrangements in Tanzania.

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