Integrating Pastoralist Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation?
This report provides an overview of land use conflicts in Loliondo. According to the Village Land Act No. 5 1999, all land in Loliondo is classified as Village Land. However, there is spatial overlap of Village Lands and a Game Controlled Areas.
Strenthening Community Based Natural Resources Governance through Local Institutions and Building Capacity of Pastoralist Communities in Garba Tula
A summary of IUCN's work with the Resource Advocacy Project and the communities of Garba Tula, in order to secure rights to resources and improve conservatin practices.
Governance for Conservatin and Poverty Reduction
IUCN’s work in Garba Tula (GT) through this project has now been underway for almost two years, and to date a number of activities have been implemented in the area.
Pastoralists seasonal land rights in land administration
A series of papers on land use administration, land use change, securing of rights to resources and other in Laikipia, Kenya.
Diversification, Experimentation, and Adaptation: Pastoralists in Communal Governance of Resources and Livelihoods Strategies
This paper presents a discussion of the communal tenure system in Olkiramatian, a group ranch in the southern rangelands of Kenya which has granted the residents the flexibility and choice to pursue diversification alternatives that demand open landscapes.
Focus on Africa: Kenya Lesson Brief, Government Control of Private Land Use
This lesson brief looks at the government's control of private land use in Kenya.
Complementing the state: the contribution of the watchdog groups in protecting women's land rights in Gatundu District, Kenya
In the experience of GROOTS Kenya, HIV-positive widows are often thrown out of their matrimonial homes, their land grabbed by in-laws as they are blamed for their husbands’ deaths and/or feared to die within a short period of time.
Focus on Land in Africa: Mozambique Lesson Brief, Delimitation of Land is Vital
Delimitation is the process of identifying the geographic boundaries of areas of land and preparing a record of that information.
Forced Eviction and Resettlement in Cambodia: Case Studies from Phnom Penh
The rise of urbanization and development in Cambodia in recent years has led to a dramatic increase in land prices, with particularly high values for land in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Some government officials have benefited from the high price of land by unlawfully granting land title to private developers in exchange for compensation.
Formalizing Inequality: Land Titling in Cambodia
The Land Law of 2001 was a landmark statute intended to strengthen and protect the rights of ordinary Cambodian landholders. A land titling programme (LMAP) was initiated soon afterwards, with extensive World Bank and donor support.
Land Rights in Cambodia: An Unfinished Reform
In Cambodia, an increasing demand for land has accompanied rapid economic expansion over the past decade, leading to land tenure insecurity for many of the country's poor. Despite the adoption of a new land law in 2001 and the establishment of the Land Management and Administration Project (LMAP) in 2002, tenure problems have continued.