African Land Rights Systems

Author : Aquiline Tarimo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789956792139

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This book, from ethical, interdisciplinary, and African perspectives, unveils the root causes of the increasing land disputes. Its significance lies upon the effort of presenting a broad overview founded upon a critical analysis of the existing land-related disputes. It is a perspective that attempts to evaluate the renewed interest in evolving theories of land rights by raising questions that can help us to understand better differences underlying land ownership systems, conflict between customary and statutory land rights systems, and the politics of land reform. Other dimensions explored in the book include the market influence on land-grabbing and challenges accompanying trends of migration, resettlement, and integration. The methodology applied in the study provides a perspective that raises questions intended to identify areas of contention, dispute, and conflict. The study, which could also be categorized as a critical assessment of the African land rights systems, is intended to be a resource for scholars, activists, and organizations working to resolve land-related disputes.

Author : Camilla Toulmin
Publisher : IIED
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Land reform
ISBN : 9781899825516

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Evolving Land Rights, Policy and Tenure in Africa by Camilla Toulmin Pdf

Author : Horman Chitonge,Ross Harvey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030828523

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Land Tenure Challenges in Africa by Horman Chitonge,Ross Harvey Pdf

This book provides a significant contribution to the literature on land reform in various African contexts. While the economic evidence is clear that secure property rights are a necessary condition for catalysing broad-based economic development, the governance process by which those rights are secured is less clear. This book details the historical complexity of land rights and the importance of understanding this history in the process of trying to improve tenure security. Through a combination of single country case studies, comparative case studies and regional comparisons, the book is unequivocal that good governance is paramount for improving the performance of land reform programmes. All attempts at moving towards more formal secure tenure require congruence with informal norms, beliefs and values, and a set of clear systems and processes to avoid corruption and unintended negative consequences.

Author : Jean-Pierre Chauveau
Publisher : IIED
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Customary law
ISBN : 9781843696575

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Changes in Customary Land Tenure Systems in Africa by Jean-Pierre Chauveau Pdf

Author : Robert Home
Publisher : PULP
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence
ISBN : 9781920538019

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Local case studies in African land law by Robert Home Pdf

Author : Tor A. Benjaminsen,Christian Lund
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136346316

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Securing Land Rights in Africa by Tor A. Benjaminsen,Christian Lund Pdf

This collection of research papers from across the African continent illustrates the complex and ever-changing rules of the land tenure game, and how government legislation and reform (formalization) interact with local innovations (informalization) to form land tenure systems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1422147802

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African Land Rights Systems by Anonim Pdf

This book, from ethical, interdisciplinary, and African perspectives, unveils the root causes of the increasing land disputes. Its significance lies upon the effort of presenting a broad overview founded upon a critical analysis of the existing land-related disputes. It is a perspective that attempts to evaluate the renewed interest in evolving theories of land rights by raising questions that can help us to understand better differences underlying land ownership systems, conflict between customary and statutory land rights systems, and the politics of land reform. Other dimensions explored in the book include the market influence on land-grabbing and challenges accompanying trends of migration, resettlement, and integration. The methodology applied in the study provides a perspective that raises questions intended to identify areas of contention, dispute, and conflict. The study, which could also be categorized as a critical assessment of the African land rights systems, is intended to be a resource for scholars, activists, and organizations working to resolve land-related disputes.

Author : Birgit Englert,Elizabeth Daley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847016119

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Women's Land Rights & Privatization in Eastern Africa by Birgit Englert,Elizabeth Daley Pdf

Are women's fragile land rights in Africa being eroded in a period of privatisation and land reforms sponsored by the World Bank? Changing global employment and trade patters and the HIV/AIDS epidemic has affected women in particular. A complexity is that women's and men's interests within households are both joint and separate, yet many land reform programmes are based on the notion of a unitary household in which resources benefit the whole family. Today new land market opportunities also tend to put women at a disadvantage, just as they were under colonialism. Women's secondary rights to land are being extinguished. The detailed, local level research in this volume not only challenges the status quo, but demonstrates that another world is possible and documents the many ways women in Eastern Africa are finding to ensure their rights to land.

Author : Lorenzo Cotula,Camilla Toulmin,Ced Hesse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Land reform
ISBN : WISC:89076079516

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Land Tenure and Administration in Africa by Lorenzo Cotula,Camilla Toulmin,Ced Hesse Pdf

Author : Albert Kwokwo Barume,IWGIA,International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Indigenous peoples
ISBN : 8792786405

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Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Africa by Albert Kwokwo Barume,IWGIA,International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs Pdf

Author : Catherine Boone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107040694

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Property and Political Order in Africa by Catherine Boone Pdf

In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts, and farming regions. These differences produce patterned variations in relationships between individuals, communities, and the state. This book captures these patterns in an analysis of structure and variation in rural land tenure regimes. In most farming areas, state authority is deeply embedded in land regimes, drawing farmers, ethnic insiders and outsiders, lineages, villages, and communities into direct and indirect relationships with political authorities at different levels of the state apparatus. The analysis shows how property institutions - institutions that define political authority and hierarchy around land - shape dynamics of great interest to scholars of politics, including the dynamics of land-related competition and conflict, territorial conflict, patron-client relations, electoral cleavage and mobilization, ethnic politics, rural rebellion, and the localization and "nationalization" of political competition.

Author : Sam Moyo,Dzodzi Tsikata
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9782869786783

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Land in the Struggles for Citizenship in Africa by Sam Moyo,Dzodzi Tsikata Pdf

The variety of land questions facing Africa and the divergent strategies proposed to resolve them continue to evoke debates. Increasingly, in response to the enduring problems of land tenure, there are land movements of all shapes and orientations, some reformist and others quite revolutionary in their agenda. However revolutionary, land movements have tended to ignore the land tenure interests of women, pastoralists, youth and indigenous people. Several of these longstanding and emerging issues in land tenure include the role of the state in land tenure reforms; urban land questions, the nature of land struggles and improvements; and, the impact of land tenure developments on particular social groups and countries. An overarching concern is the extent to which land rights are being commodified, through the conversion of land held under customary tenure systems into marketised systems. The consequences of this include growing land concentration, land tenure insecurities, diminishing access to land by various sections of society, including the poor, women and less dominant ethno-religious groups. This volume brings together different studies on Africas land questions exploring emerging land issues on the continent in terms of the wider questions of development, citizenship, and democratisation. The chapters discuss the land question through a variety of themes. Some focus on the agrarian aspects of the land questions, while others elucidate the urban dimensions of the land question.

Author : Sam Moyo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782869782020

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African Land Questions, Agrarian Transitions and the State by Sam Moyo Pdf

This empirically grounded study provides a critical reflection on the land question in Africa, research on which tends to be tangential, conceptually loose and generally inadequate. It argues that the most pressing research concern must be to understand the precise nature of the African land question, its land reforms and their effects on development. To unravel the roots of land conflicts in Africa requires thorough understanding of the complex social and political contradictions which have ensued from colonial and post-colonial land policies, as well as from Africa's 'development' and capital accumulation trajectories, especially with regard to the land rights of the continent's poor. The study thus questions the capacity of emerging neo-liberal economic and political regimes in Africa to deliver land reforms which address growing inequality and poverty. It equally questions the understanding of the nature of popular demands for land reforms by African states, and their ability to address these demands under the current global political and economic structures dictated by neo-liberalism and its narrow regime of ownership. The study invites scholars and policy makers to creatively draw on the specific historical trajectories and contemporary expression of the land and agrarian questions in Africa, to enrich both theory and practice on land in Africa.

Author : Inolofatseng Lekaba
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783346092526

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Land tenure reform in South Africa. A decolonial review by Inolofatseng Lekaba Pdf

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject African Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 80%, , language: English, abstract: The historical dispossession of ‘native’ land dates back to the colonial era and was reinforced and exacerbated by the apartheid Natives Land Act of 1913. The enactment of this Act saw the unequitable redistribution of land with black people only being afforded 7% of arable land. More significantly, the Act facilitated the creation of enclaves for the Black majority with the restriction on land ownership and socio-economic mobility (South African History Online, 2013). Hence, the democratic government from the year 1994 was faced with the monumental task of redressing this imbalance in land ownership and ensuring that the previously disadvantaged do not continue to be discriminated against with regards of land tenure in the country. However, land tenure reform for communal land has been marred with disputes pertaining to African tenure systems versus those influenced by colonial structures. In this regard, this paper seeks to highlight the need to decolonise communal land tenure reform for the improved implementation of rural development plans.

Author : John W. Bruce
Publisher : University of Wisconsin-Madison, Land Tenure Center
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021859280

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Country Profiles of Land Tenure by John W. Bruce Pdf