Contemporary Customary Land Issues In Africa

Author : J. Oloka-Onyango,Bridget Bwalya Umar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527514379

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Contemporary Customary Land Issues in Africa by J. Oloka-Onyango,Bridget Bwalya Umar Pdf

This book examines current trends in customary land issues in Africa, focusing on the practice of converting customary land into leasehold tenure, particularly in Zambia. Since the enactment of the 1995 Lands Act No. 29 in Zambia, conversion of customary land has become a controversial policy, raising questions about the future of customary land and rural communities, and the role of traditional authorities in a changing environment. Alienating customary land into leasehold tenure has serious implications for local and national politics and gender dynamics. Analysis of these trends suggests that the policy of creating land markets on customary land is subjecting customary systems to the forces of change. However, governments that have adopted this policy have not, by and large, adopted measures to respond to these challenges. Although customary tenure is widely believed to be resilient, it is not clear how the customary system will navigate the current winds of change. Chapters in this book draw from the Land Use and Rural Livelihoods in Africa Project (LURLAP), a collaborative research project undertaken by staff and students at the University of Cape Town and the University of Zambia.

Author : Walter Timo de Vries,John Tiah Bugri,Fatima Mandhu
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000072471

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Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions by Walter Timo de Vries,John Tiah Bugri,Fatima Mandhu Pdf

This book showcases new empirical findings on the conceptualization, design, and evaluation of land management interventions and addresses two crucial aspects: how and under which conditions such interventions are responsible, and how such interventions can be supported by smart technologies. Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions is for all types of actors in land management. Although primarily based on cases from Africa, it addresses land management issues from practical and theoretical perspectives relevant for land managers worldwide. It brings the discourse up to date and helps all practitioners designing new policies and those looking for new instruments to do so. Aimed at land academics, including students, teachers, and researchers, as well as practitioners, including those working within international organizations, donor organizations, NGOs, and land independent consultants, this book Delivers innovative methodologies for land management for professionals involved in land administration projects Explores land management from a geodetic and spatial planning perspective Includes real cases, empirical data, and analysis in contemporary and alternative land management developments in Africa Addresses important land issues which contribute to national development and achieving United Nations' SDGs Discusses contemporary research findings related to societal needs in land administration which are equally valid for non-African contexts Acts as a new teaching resource for land management and land administration courses, and land-related disciplines in geodesy, human geography, development studies, and environmental planning

Author : Sam Moyo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : R. E. Downs,Stephen P. Reyna
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038502204

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Land and Society in Contemporary Africa by R. E. Downs,Stephen P. Reyna Pdf

Author : Jean-Pierre Chauveau
Publisher : IIED
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Ambreena S. Manji
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1842774956

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The Politics of Land Reform in Africa by Ambreena S. Manji Pdf

This book examines the trend in Africa today to replace communal forms of customary tenure with Western-type private land tenure arrangements. These are markets in land that treat it as a commodity like any other, and forms of rural credit involving land as collateral. The author develops an aetiology of the main actors in this historic process which is already having huge human consequences. It is likely, if more widely implemented, to transform the face of African rural society towards landlessness, forced migration to big city slums, and rising inequality.

Author : Robert Debusmann
Publisher : Bayreuth African Studies
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Agricultural colonies
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020406604

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Land Law and Land Ownership in Africa by Robert Debusmann Pdf

Author : Regis Musavengane,Llewellyn Leonard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000585353

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Conservation, Land Conflicts and Sustainable Tourism in Southern Africa by Regis Musavengane,Llewellyn Leonard Pdf

This book examines the nexus between conservation, land conflicts, and sustainable tourism approaches in Southern Africa, with a focus on equity, access, restitution, and redistribution. While Southern Africa is home to important biodiversity, pristine woodlands, and grasslands, and is a habitat for important wildlife species, it is also a land of contestations over its natural resources with a complex historical legacy and a wide variety of competing and conflicting issues surrounding race, cultural and traditional practices, and neoliberalism. Drawing on insights from conservation, environmental, and tourism experts, this volume presents the nexus between land conflicts and conservation in the region. The chapters reveal the hegemony of humans on land and associated resources including wildlife and minerals. By using social science approaches, the book unites environmental, scientific, social, and political issues, as it is imperative we understand the holistic nature of land conflicts in nature-based tourism. Discussing the management theories and approaches to community-based tourism in communities where there are or were land conflicts is critical to understanding the current state and future of tourism in African rural spaces. This volume determines the extent to which land reform impacts community-based tourism in Africa to develop resilient destination strategies and shares solutions to existing land conflicts to promote conservation and nature-based tourism. The book will be of great interest to students, academics, development experts, and policymakers in the field of conservation, tourism geography, sociology, development studies, land use, and environmental management and African studies.

Author : Shinichi Takeuchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811647253

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African Land Reform Under Economic Liberalisation by Shinichi Takeuchi Pdf

This open access book offers unique in-depth, comprehensive, and comparative analyses of the motivations, context, and outcomes of recent land reforms in Africa. Whereas a considerable number of land reforms have been carried out by African governments since the 1990s, no systematic analysis on their meaning has so far been conducted. In the age of land reform, Africa has seen drastic rural changes. Analysing the relationship between those reforms and change, the chapters in this book reveal not only their socio-economic outcomes, such as accelerated marketisation of land, but also their political outcomes, which have often been contrasting. Countries such as Rwanda and Mozambique have utilised land reform to strengthen state control over land, but other countries, such as Ghana and Zambia, have seen the rise in power of traditional chiefs in managing the land. The comparative perspective of this book clarifies new features of African social changes, which are carefully investigated by area experts. Providing new perspectives on recent land reform, this book will have a considerable impact on scholars as well as policymakers.

Author : Sue Mbaya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115192119

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Land Issues in East and Southern Africa: Southern Africa by Sue Mbaya Pdf

Author : Kojo Sebastian Amanor,Sam Moyo
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848137196

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Land and Sustainable Development in Africa by Kojo Sebastian Amanor,Sam Moyo Pdf

This book links contemporary debates on land reform with wider discourses on sustainable development within Africa. Featuring chapters and in-depth case studies on South Africa and Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, Botswana and West Africa, it traces the development of ideas about sustainable development and addresses a new agenda based on social justice. The authors critically examine contemporary neoliberal market-led reforms and the legacy of colonialism on the land question. They argue that debates on sustainable development should be placed in the context of structural interests, access and equity, rather than technical management of land and resources. Additionally, they show that these structural factors cannot be transformed by institutional reform based on notions of elective democracy, community participation, and market-reform, but require a far more radical programme to redress the injustices of the colonial system that continue today. The book advocates a commitment to building sustainable livelihoods for farmers, calling for a redistribution of land and natural resources to challenge existing economic relations and frameworks for development.

Author : Laura German
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1066594698

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Contemporary Processes of Large-scale Land Acquisition by Investors by Laura German Pdf

Author : Lorenzo Cotula,Camilla Toulmin,Ced Hesse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Botshelo M. Mathuba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : WISC:89097323612

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Customary and Modern Land Tenure Systems in Botswana by Botshelo M. Mathuba Pdf

Author : Ken Yeang,Alan Dilani
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781527579934

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Ecological and Salutogenic Design for a Sustainable Healthy Global Society by Ken Yeang,Alan Dilani Pdf

This volume brings together several leading scientists and practitioners from around the world to discuss the ecological and salutogenic design principles for creating a healthy built environment. These principles and applications are the most important scientific topic of health promotion that provides the context for a healthy lifestyle. The challenge for ecological design is to provide a green context for a healthy society dealing with built infrastructure that creates clean air, clean water, clean food, and clean land, which in turn are necessary for human health and wellbeing. In this book, these principles are intertwined with those of salutogenic design, which support human health globally.