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Land access in the 21st century

Journal Articles & Books
Novembro, 2006
Bangladesh
Ruanda
Zimbabwe
Peru
Indonésia
Gana
Venezuela
Guiana
Paquistão
Colômbia
Moçambique
Jordânia
Costa Rica
Filipinas
África do Sul
Nicarágua
Malásia
Uganda
Botswana
Índia
China
México
Brasil

The present paper seeks to cover the key issues, trends, constraints, challenges, knowledge gaps and policy options on a range of dimensions of land access. Land access is broadly defined as the processes by which people individually or collectively gain rights and opportunities to occupy and utilise land (primarily for productive purposes but also other economic and social purposes) on a temporary or permanent basis.

Improving tenure security for the poor in Africa

Journal Articles & Books
Novembro, 2006
Burkina Faso
Nigéria
Moçambique
Zimbabwe
Austrália
Gana
Malawi
Níger
Etiópia
Ruanda
África do Sul
Lesoto
Uganda
Somália
Uruguai
Tanzania
Senegal
Sudão
Camarões
Noruega
Quênia
África

Most of the world’s poor work in the “informal economy” – outside of recognized and enforceable rules. Thus, even though most have assets of some kind, they have no way to document their possessions because they lack formal access to legally recognized tools such as deeds, contracts and permits.

Improving tenure security for the poor in Africa: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda - Case Study

Reports & Research
Novembro, 2006
Tanzania
Quênia
Egito
Sudão
Uganda
Alemanha
Noruega
África

This paper identifies the key issues of land tenure security for the rural poor, vulnerable and marginalized in the East African countries of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The report finds that most of these issues are common across the three countries, both in terms of the challenges that the communities face and imperatives that inform policy interventions and responses.

The Land and Property Rights of Women and orphans in the context of HIV and AIDS

Reports & Research
Novembro, 2006
Quênia
Zâmbia
Zimbabwe
Alemanha
Essuatíni
Reino Unido
Malawi
Namíbia
Moçambique
Portugal
África do Sul
Lesoto
Uganda
Tanzania
Botswana
Senegal
África

The effect of HIV/AIDS on Africa and the issues it creates for women in African societies, especially unmarried women, is a difficult one that will not soon go away. These two volumes [ The Land and Property Rights of Women and Orphans in the Context of HIV and AIDS : Case Studies from Zimbabwe, and Reclaiming Our Lives: HIV and AIDS, Women’s Land and Property Rights and Livelihoods in Southern and East Africa: Narratives and Responses] are important and useful additions to the literature of the problem and should be found in academic and research collections dealing with the topic

Improving Tenure Security for the Rural Poor: Rwanda – Country Case Study

Reports & Research
Novembro, 2006
Ruanda
Suíça
Quênia
África do Sul
Zimbabwe
Tanzania
Botswana
Brasil
Canadá
Noruega
África

Most of the world’s poor work in the “informal economy” – outside of recognized and enforceable rules. Thus, even though most have assets of some kind, they have no way to document their possessions because they lack formal access to legally recognized tools such as deeds, contracts and permits. The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (CLEP) is the first global anti-poverty initiative focusing on the link between exclusion, poverty and law, looking for practical solutions to the challenges of poverty.

Changes in in "customary" land tenure systems in Africa

Journal Articles & Books
Novembro, 2006
Burkina Faso
Benim
Nigéria
Bélgica
Ruanda
Mali
Zimbabwe
Essuatíni
Gana
Serra Leoa
Etiópia
Níger
Camarões
Quênia
Moçambique
África do Sul
Lesoto
Uganda
Itália
Tanzania
Botswana
França
África

Across rural Africa, land legislation struggles to be properly implemented, and most resource users gain access to land on the basis of local land tenure systems.

Land tenure alternative conflict management

Reports & Research
Novembro, 2006
Estados Unidos
Quênia
El Salvador
Guatemala
Guiné-Bissau
Reino Unido
Canadá
Moçambique
Filipinas
África do Sul
Nicarágua
Uganda
Itália
Equador
Bolívia
Paraguai
México
Brasil

This training manual focuses on how to manage and resolve conflicts over land tenure rights, security of tenure and land access in the field of rural development. It results from complementary activities undertaken within FAO's Livelihood Support Programme (LSP) and the Land Tenure and Management Unit and with the International Land Coalition. It addresses the specific issues of land tenure identified in the volume Negotiation and Mediation Techniques for Natural Resource Management published by the LSP.

Regional Law No. 55-ZRH “On additional case of expropriation, including redemption, of land plots pertaining to public ownership, for public and municipal and public needs”.

Legislation
Novembro, 2006
Rússia

This Regional Law establishes additional cases of expropriation, including redemption, of land plots pertaining to public ownership, for public and municipal and public needs. It envisages the following cases: (a) construction of regional public edifices; (b) construction envisaged by the regional territorial land-use planning documentation; and (c) realization of regional and municipal specific programs.

Drawing a line under the crisis: Reconciling returnee land access and security in post-conflict Rwanda

Reports & Research
Julho, 2006
Rwanda

This report is part of a broader comparative effort by As the author worked with colleagues in Rwanda,
two other important dimensions of the Rwandan
experience became clear. Refugee return and land
access in Rwanda has been an extraordinarily
complex matter, with some refugees leaving just in
time for others returning to take up their homes and
lands. Rwanda has important lessons to teach us
about the need to maintain flexibility in dealing with
complexity, and raises questions about whether

Urban Land and Housing Markets in the Punjab, Pakistan

Reports & Research
Training Resources & Tools
Junho, 2006
Paquistão
Ásia Meridional

This note provides a short overview of urban land and housing market performance in Punjab Province of Pakistan. It describes the characteristics of well-functioning urban land and housing markets and argues that, at present, the Punjab's urban land and housing markets are not performing well. The paper identifies a range of structural and institutional shortcomings that impede urban land market performance, and then concludes by offering recommendations for making land and housing markets functions better.