ABSTRACTED FROM CHAPTER INTRODUCTION: This paper was originally commissioned by IGES to review the Community Forest Act, 2007 “from a rights perspective” and to assess its impacts (or at least its predicted impacts) on livelihoods. However, the task has been a moving target. While ratification was pending the focus shifted towards assessing the potential impacts of the “Act” on the assumption that it would be passed. Now, as there seems little chance that community forestry legislation will be resurrected in the foreseeable future, the focus has again shifted.

Economic and legal reforms have triggered waves of conflict over property rights and access to urban land in Vietnam. In this article I develop four epistemic case studies to explore the main precepts and practices that courts must negotiate to extend their authority over land disputes. Courts face a dilemma: Do they apply state laws that disregard community regulatory practices and risk losing social relevance, or apply community notions of situational justice that undermine rule formalism?

ABSTRACTED FROM INTRODUCTION: Women’s access to and control over land can potentially lead to gender equality alongside addressing material deprivation. Land is not just a productive asset and a source of material wealth, but equally a source of security, status and recognition. Substantive gender equality is both relational and multi-dimensional, cutting across race, class, caste, age, educational and locational hierarchies and can only be achieved if rights are seen as socially legitimate.

(*) Ismael Guzmán
 
Entre julio y septiembre del presente año Bolivia vivió, paso a paso, en un dramático suspenso, el recorrido de seiscientos kilómetros de la VIII Marcha protagonizada por los pueblos indígenas de las tierras bajas del país, demandando que una carretera destinada a unir los departamentos de Beni y Cochabamba no atraviese el Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS). Luego de tensas negociaciones, en La Paz, el presidente Evo Morales promulgó una Ley que suspendía el tramo, pero no todo estaba dicho...

Under certain circumstances, land titling, property regime changes, and land‐use conversions yield substantial profits. Yet few people possess the wealth, knowledge, and networks to benefit from these procedures. In the Yucatán Peninsula, a region recently targeted as a prominent investment location by the Mexican national government (mainly with the “Tren Maya” megaproject) and the private capital, forestlands collectively owned as ejidos by Mayan peasants are on the trend to complete privatization.

El objetivo central de este trabajo es identificar las principales problemáticas de la tenencia y la gestión de la tierra en Argentina, a la luz de las transformaciones globales de la agricultura y el desarrollo de los territorios rurales. Se plantean también una serie de opciones de políticas para resolver las situaciones más conflictivas, teniendo siempre como objetivo la equidad y el desarrollo. El alcance de este estudio está limitado al análisis de la dinámica de la tierra desde una perspectiva general, tomando como base las tierras que figuran en los censos agropecuarios nacionales.

Several studies have shown that the land registration and certification reform in Ethiopia has been implemented at an impressive speed, at a low-cost, and with significant impacts on investment, land productivity, and land rental market activity. This study provides new evidence on land productivity changes for rented land and on the welfare effects of the reform. The study draws on a unique household panel, covering the period up to eight years after the implementation of the reform.

HOW TO CARRY OUT A PHYSICAL SEARCH ON A LAND TITLE

How to acquire a Freehold Land Title

How to Convert a Leasehold to a Freehold Land Title

How to amend a Certificate and rectify the Register

How to acquire a Substitute Certificate of Title