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Land restitution and redistribution: providing opportunities for broad-based rural development

LandLibrary Resource
декабря, 1999
South Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa

This case study deals with the South African government policies for restitution and redistribution of land to people in rural areas who were deprived of it due to racially discriminatory laws and practice. Its main focus is on how the interactions between civil society and the state in the several phases of land reform through the 1990s reflect some key issues of governance, eg.

Land tenure, investment, and agricultural production in Nicaragua

LandLibrary Resource
декабря, 1999
Nicaragua
Latin America and the Caribbean

While there is a consensus in Nicaragua that the security of property rights is a fundamental constraint to the long run development of the agricultural sector, there has been little empirical analysis to date of the relationship between land rights and rural economic activity.Using household level data collected between December, 1997– April, 1998 within the regions of Leon and Chinandega (kno

Land theme paper (sustainable livelihoods)

LandLibrary Resource
декабря, 1999
South Africa
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper examines the challenges of institutional, organisational and policy reform around land in Southern Africa. It analyses the land situation in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and identifies key issues for further research in each of these countries.
Findings include:

Securing customary land tenure in Africa: alternative approaches to the local recording and registration of land rights: report of workshop held at IIED

LandLibrary Resource
Reports & Research
декабря, 1999
Sub-Saharan Africa
Mozambique
Tanzania
Uganda
South Africa
Côte d'Ivoire
Niger
Europe

Series of papers on land tenure issues including: Piloting local administration of records in Ekuthuleni, KwaZulu-Natal, by Donna Hornby (AFRA, South Africa)Ivory Coast’s Plan Foncier Rural: lessons from a pilot project to register customary rights, by Camilla Toulmin (IIED) Customary land identification and recording in Mozambique, by Chris Tanner Supporting local rights: will the centre let g

Land Reform in the shadow of the State: the implementation of new land laws in sub-Saharan Africa

LandLibrary Resource
декабря, 1999
Tanzania
South Africa
Uganda
Sub-Saharan Africa

Focuses on the problems of implementing new land laws in Africa, with particular emphasis on those in Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa. Includes background, the policy environment, implementors, accommodative non-state land reform, and radical non-state land reform

How land reform can contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction: empirical evidence from international and Zimbabwean experience

LandLibrary Resource
декабря, 1999
Zimbabwe
Sub-Saharan Africa

Examines international evidence on the relationship between asset ownership and growth and the impact of redistributive land reform, plus evidence of the impact of land reform in Zimbabwe.Asks why it appears that resettled farmers are among the poorest in the population.

Civil society and the struggle for land rights for marginalised groups: the contribution of the Uganda Land Alliance to the Land Act 1998

LandLibrary Resource
декабря, 1999
Uganda
Sub-Saharan Africa

The 1998 Land Act represents one of the most important pieces of legislation in Uganda, which is predominantly an agricultural country. The role of a consortium of NGOs, The Uganda Land Alliance (ULA), is analysed in this paper, with regard to the enactment of the Act. The issues addressed include:

Notions of rights over land and the history of Mongolian pastoralism

LandLibrary Resource
декабря, 1999
Mongolia
Eastern Asia
Oceania

This article explores the history of notions of land ownership among Mongolian pastoralists in a historical context.In the 1990s the Mongolian state implemented a series of reforms designed to create a competitive market economy based on private property. These included the wholesale privatisation of the pastoral economy and the dissolution of the collective and state farms.