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Community land formalization and company land acquisition procedures: A review of 33 procedures in 15 countries

Community land formalization and company land acquisition procedures: A review of 33 procedures in 15 countries

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Date of publication
February 2020
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ISBN / Resource ID
NARCIS:eur:oai:repub.eur.nl:130103

Indigenous and community lands, crucial for rural livelihoods, are typically held under informal customary

tenure arrangements. This can leave the land vulnerable to outside commercial interests, so communities may

seek to formalize their land rights in a government registry and obtain an official land document. But this process

can be time-consuming and complex, and in contrast, companies can acquire land relatively quickly and find

shortcuts around regulatory burdens. This article reviews and maps 19 community land formalization and 14

company land acquisition procedures is 15 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Comparing community

and company procedures identifies multiple sources of inequity.

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Authors and Publishers

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s)

Notess, Laura
Veit, Peter
Monterroso, Iliana
Andiko
Sulle, Emmanuel
Larson, Anne
Gindroz, Anne-Sophie
Quaedvlieg, Julia
Williams, Andrew