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Land titling is a form of privatization in that public assets are transferred to private families and individuals.

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Land Titling: A Mode of Privatization with the Potential to Deepen Democracy.
Bernadette Atuahene, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Saint Louis University Law Journal (2006)

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Tired of waiting for land titles, Rawang folk take matters into own hands

25 December 2020

Malaysia

Main photo: Residents of OC8 Batu Arang doing a recce of the area before starting to clear the land. (Hamzah Osman pic)

Religion Ministry Requires Pagoda Land Titles, Monks Fear Suppression

7 October 2020

Cambodia

The Religion Ministry will now require pagodas to have hard land titles as part of an effort to better regulate religious institutions in the country, a move some monks said would tighten authorities’ control of monks who participate in social work.

DAR launches titling project to enhance land tenure security

19 November 2020

Philippines

The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) on Thursday launched the P24.625 billion World Bank-funded Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) project, which aims to improve land tenure security and stabilize property rights of 1,140,735 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) nationwide.

Blogs

An Interview with Professor Howard Stein at the recent Conference on Land Policy in Africa

20 December 2019

Authors:

Mr. Howard Stein

Stacey Zammit

Africa

During the recent Conference on Land Policy in Africa, we had a chance to sit down and speak with Professor Howard Stein of the University of Michigan. Scroll below to read more.

1) Can you tell us a little bit about your research, work and background?

Mobilizing Change for Women Within Collective Tenure Regimes

17 November 2019

Authors:

Ms. Iliana Monterroso Ibarra

Uganda

Peru

Indonesia

Local communities manage a significant portion of the world’s remaining forests, pastures, and fisheries as common property resources, but they are rarely recognized as formal owners. Important progress has occurred during the last twenty years, as growing evidence suggests that devolving rights to communities can provide incentives for new forms of investment that facilitate sustainable outcomes as well as greater equity in the distribution of benefits.

What Works for Women?

5 November 2019

Authors:

Ms. Elisa Scalise

Ethiopia

Uganda

Peru

Indonesia

Considering that land tenure security is crucial to better outcomes for women it is a surprise that there is not more evidence out there on what works to achieve it.

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Discussions

Land titling in Peru: what future for women's tenure security?, 2-13 December 2013

Closed

26 November 2013 to 19 December 2013

Peru

Over the last ten years, Peru’s agricultural sector has grown 4 percent annually, benefitting from better agricultural health and increased international demand for fruits, vegetables and other non-traditional agricultural commodities (IDB, 2010). Peruvian women’s participation in the sector is also significant.

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VI Conference and Assembly of the Inter-American Network on Cadastre and Property Registre

1 December 2020 to 4 December 2020

Americas

Perú 2020

Webinar: The State of Land Information in South Africa

1 October 2020

Location

Online

South Africa

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ZA

Southern Africa

South Africa

Organizers:

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

Land Portal Foundation

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Webinar Report: The Role of Land Certification in Securing Women's Land Rights on Collective Lands

Reports & Research

January 2020

Ethiopia

Uganda

Peru

Indonesia

Evidence shows that women can benefit from having individualised land rights formalized in their names. However, similar evidence is not available for formalization of land rights that are based on collective tenure. Studies have estimated that as much as 65 percent of the world’s land is held under customary, collective-tenure systems.

Collective land ownership in the 21st century: Overview of global trends

Journal Articles & Books

December 2018

Global

Statutory recognition of rural communities as collective owners of their lands is substantial, expanding, and an increasingly accepted element of property relations. The conventional meaning of property in land itself is changing, allowing for a greater diversity of attributes without impairing legal protection.

Innovations in Land Tenure Systems and Land Titling (Cross-Cutting)

Reports & Research

February 2018

South Africa

During its transition from racial apartheid to democracy in 1994, South Africa’s government announced it would strengthen the tenure rights of the estimated 16 million citizens who lived on communal land. By 2012, however, the government’s own reports concluded that the country had made little progress in the area of communal tenure reform.

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Organizations

Research Consortium

Launched in 2018, the Research Consortium, by Resource Equity, is a powerful hub for the collection, sharing, and exchange of knowledge on how to effectively advance women’s land rights. We identify gaps in knowledge and help develop a common agenda for research so that learnings can more easily be compared, shared, and applied.

Survey Review

Survey Review (ISSN -0039-6265 (print); ISSN 1752-2706 (online) is an international journal which has been published since 1931, and in recent years under the auspices of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE). It has been published continuously as a quarterly journal, bringing together a wide range of papers on research, theory, practice and management in land and engineering surveying. All papers are independently assessed by two referees and come from government, private industry and academic organisations world-wide.

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