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Journal articles on the topic "Communal land tenure"
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Sisay, Mulugeta Getu, Ashenafi Negash Zeleke, and Habtamu Hailemeskel Gulte. "Institutional Paradox and Tenure Insecurity in Ethiopian Pastoral Land Administration." Journal of Land and Rural Studies 6, no. 2 (2018): 108–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2321024918766589.
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Laws governing pastoral communal lands are barely developed in Ethiopia. The Federal Constitution firmly recognizes uninterrupted land use right of pastoralists including for grazing. Federal land laws, however, mention pastoralists’ issues incidentally and are far from being comprehensive frameworks. This research is the review of pillars of federal and regional land laws, examination of their implementation, synergy between state and customary land administration system, and the implication of gaps in accessing land for different programmes in Ethiopian Afar and Somali regional states. The findings revealed that in the absence of any federal laws that effectively regulate communal lands uses, regional laws were found to be precarious, feeble and far from being comprehensive. Ironically, the regional laws offered more protection to crop fields than communal (pastoral) land. It is also shown that customary and state land administration systems that operate simultaneously in the areas lack synergy and created stalemate.
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O'Flaherty, Michael. "Communal tenure in Zimbabwe: divergent models of collective land holding in the Communal Areas." Africa 68, no. 4 (1998): 537–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1161165.
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This article discusses the historical construction of land tenure patterns in the Communal Areas of Zimbabwe, previously the Reserves of colonial Rhodesia. In many respects the form of communal tenure found in the Communal Areas today emerged during the early colonial period. While being glossed as ‘traditional’, communal tenure is a contradictory amalgam of local, regional and state initiatives. The discussion outlines the historical development of present tenure relations in the Communal Areas, reviews their multiple sources of legitimacy and suggests that common property regimes in Zimbabwe are not simply the artefact of colonial indirect rule.
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Achiba, Gargule A., and Monica N. Lengoiboni. "Devolution and the politics of communal tenure reform in Kenya." African Affairs 119, no. 476 (2020): 338–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adaa010.
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Abstract Increased legal access and the devolution of natural resource administration are generally seen as sources of power for local communities and their institutions. However, beyond this widely held expectation, the politics of land reform suggest that legal recognition of rights and devolution is not the only issue with implications for communal tenure reforms. Misconceptions about communal tenure, which are rooted in history, and their appropriation by local elites in the processes of communal tenure reform are characteristic of both colonial and post-colonial governments in Kenya. Although typically articulated and promulgated to enhance political representation and to devolve control over resources to the local level, unresolved issues in the reform process have worked to undermine the legitimacy of communal land rights in contemporary Kenyan society. A case study of the post-2010 community land legislation process demonstrates the continuing relevance of historically conditioned political and ideological representations of communal tenure built during the colonial period and reproduced in policy in independent Kenya. This paper offers reflections on the centrality of sustained communal tenure misconceptions, fetishization of formal governance institutions, and the institutional and power configurations that primarily benefit powerful stakeholders as sources of the current breakdown in the implementation of community land law.
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Chimhowu, Admos, and Philip Woodhouse. "Forbidden But Not Suppressed: a ‘Vernacular’ Land Market in Svosve Communal Lands, Zimbabwe." Africa 80, no. 1 (2010): 14–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e0001972009001247.
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This article examines the status of land tenure in Zimbabwe following the ‘Fast Track’ land reforms of 2000–3. It finds that post-reform land tenure remains strongly dualist, with land sales and rental prohibited on the land (about two thirds of the total) classified as ‘A1’ resettlement or ‘communal areas’, while tradeable leases apply to much of the remainder, classified as ‘commercial land’. The article draws on fieldwork in Svosve Communal Area and on previous studies on land transactions in Zimbabwe to argue that land sales and rental transactions are an enduring feature of land use in Zimbabwe's ‘communal areas’. Moreover, the article argues that, despite government prohibition, there is evidence that such transactions are being fuelled by increasing demand for land arising from the collapse in the non-farm economy in Zimbabwe. The article argues that while the logic of informal (or ‘vernacular’) land sales and rental is widely recognized by land users in communal and resettlement areas, government prohibition, in favour of asserting land allocation rights of customary authorities, is driven by considerations of political control of the rural vote.
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Ingwani, Emaculate. "Struggles of Women to Access and Hold Landuse and Other Land Property Rights under the Customary Tenure System in Peri-Urban Communal Areas of Zimbabwe." Land 10, no. 6 (2021): 649. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10060649.
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The struggles of women to access and hold landuse and other land property rights under the customary tenure system in peri-urban communal areas is increasingly becoming a cause for concern. These debates are revealed using a case study of a peri-urban communal area called Domboshava in Zimbabwe. Women living in this peri-urban communal area struggle to access and hold landuse and other land property rights registered under their names. The aim of this paper is to present an analysis of the struggles faced by women to access and hold landuse and other land property rights in Domboshava. This paper is a product of a literature review on land property rights, land tenure systems, and peri-urbanity more generally. Field data was intermittently collected in the peri-urban communal area of Domboshava over a period of four years from 2011 to 2014, as well as through post-research social visits stretching to 2019. Thirty-two women were conveniently selected and interviewed. I applied Anthony Giddens’ structure-agency theory as a framework of analysis. The struggles to access and hold landuse and other land property rights by women are rooted in land transactions, social systems including the customary land tenure, patriarchy, as well as the peri-urban context of Domboshava. Responsible authorities on land administration in communal areas need to acknowledge the existence of new and invented ways of accessing and holding landuse and land property rights under the customary land tenure system, as well as to find ways to mobilize more opportunities for women on the peri-urban land market.
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Chimhowu, Admos, and Philip Woodhouse. "Communal Tenure and Rural Poverty: Land Transactions in Svosve Communal Area, Zimbabwe." Development and Change 39, no. 2 (2008): 285–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2008.00480.x.
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Pienaar, JM. "ASPECTS OF LAND ADMINISTRATION IN THE CONTEXT OF GOOD GOVERNANCE." Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad 12, no. 2 (2017): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2009/v12i2a2726.
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This paper explores aspects of land administration where public funding and interests necessitate the application of good governance practices. The South African land reform programme is divided in three sub-programmes, namely land restitution, land redistribution and tenure reform. Land reform is a vast subject, based on policy, legislation and case law. Therefore it is impossible to deal with good governance principles over the wide spectrum of land reform. Special attention is however given to the land restitution programme in terms of the Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994 and tenure reform in the rural areas by means of the Communal Land Rights Act 11 of 2004. The purpose is not to formulate a blueprint for good governance or to indicate which good governance principles will solve all or most of the land tenure problems. It is rather an effort to indicate that policies and procedures to improve good governance in some aspects of land reform are urgently needed and should be explored further.Restitution of Land Rights Act and the Communal Land Rights Act, is extensive and far-reaching. However, many legislative measures are either impractical due to financial constraints and lack of capacity of the Department of Land Affairs, or are not based on sufficient participation by local communities. Land administration should furthermore be planned and executed in the context of global good governance practices. This includes equal protection; clear land policy principles; land tenure principles according to the needs of individuals and population groups; flexible land registration principles to accommodate both individual and communal land tenure; and appropriate institutional arrangements. It is clear that established good governance principles may solve many of the problems encountered in land administration in South Africa. It is a topic that needs to be explored further.
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Isumonah, V. Adefemi. "Migration, land tenure, citizenship and communal conflicts in Africa." Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 9, no. 1 (2003): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13537110412331301335.
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Salinding, Marthen B. "The Principles of Investment Law in the Management of Mineral and Coal Resources Within Communal Land." Hang Tuah Law Journal 1, no. 1 (2017): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.30649/htlj.v1i1.10.
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The legal forms of land tenure by communal society, known as communal, are varies in Indonesia. Communal title has been considered as a juridical and common term, although each of communal societies actually has their own different technical term. Making communal land as an investment place of managing mineral and coal resources might bring some legal issues for communal society. The first issue related to less optimal implementation of the principles of investment law by both government and investors. It would impact on the emerging conflicts between communal society and investors. Second, the position of communal land loaded by given-period mining permit would turn into the state property after the period ended.
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Frank, Simon Abdi K., Agustinus Wenehen, and Usman Idris. "The land tenure and the land use among supiori in Papua." ETNOSIA : Jurnal Etnografi Indonesia 5, no. 1 (2020): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.31947/etnosia.v5i1.9924.
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This article aims to explore various forms of land tenure and land use in Sorendiweri Village in East Supiori District, Papua Province. This research uses descriptive research using ethnography. The technique of determining informants is done purposively by determining key informants first that guides researchers to search for further informants. Data collection techniques used are in-depth interviews and FGD (Focus Group Discussion). Data analysis was carried out based on the factual culture of the community. The results show that the pattern of land tenure in the local population is communal at the clan level. Then, according to the local population, psychomo-logical and historicize view of customary land is very dominant because it states that customary land tenure in popular clans such as Sauyas that is more in line with history and relationships between clans. In addition, land tenure conflicts often occur because of the spread of land clearing in customary rights for infrastructure development and etc.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Communal land tenure"
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Johnson, Ebrezia. "Communal land and tenure security: analysis of the South African Communal Land Rights Act 11 of 2004." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2165.
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Thesis (LLM (Private Law))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis, the Communal Land Rights Act 11 0f 2004 is analysed in order to
determine whether it can give effect to the constitutional mandate in terms of
which it was promulgated, namely section 25(5), (6) and (9) of the Constitution.
Land policy pertaining to land tenure reform is discussed to see how and to
what extent it finds application in the Act. The time-consuming process
pertaining to the registration of the community rules is investigated, and the
implications where a community fails to adhere to this peremptory provision in
the Act are explained.
The thesis also analyses and discusses the functions of statutorily created
institutions, like the land administration committee and the land rights boards, in
the efficient management of land in rural areas. The aforementioned land
administration committee is particularly problematic, since the Act provides that
in cases where a recognised tribal authority exist, that institution “may” be
considered as the land administration committee, subject to prescribed
composition requirements as contained in the Act. The Traditional Leadership
and Governance Framework Act will also be discussed since it intersects with
the Communal Land Rights Act in this regard.
The pending constitutional challenge which relates to this potentially
problematic issue, will be discussed. The constitutional challenge of the Act by
four communities’ is explored in order to indicate just how potentially
problematic the institution of traditional leadership could be.
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This study also discusses and analyses the compromise contained in the Act,
regarding the registration of the land title of a community and the registration of
“new order rights” in the name of individuals. In this context the impact of this
process on the efficacy on the current Deeds registration system is
investigated. The Ministerial determination and its constitutional implications is
yet another issue, examined in this study. All of these issues will have a
negative impact on the implementation of the Communal Land Rights Act and
especially on achieving tenure security.<br>AFRIKAANS OPSOMMING: In hierdie tesis word die Wet op Kommunale Grondregte 11 van 2004
geanaliseer om te bepaal of dit inderdaad voldoen aan die grondwetlike
mandaat soos voorsien in art 25(5), (6) en (9) van die Grondwet. Die beleid van
toepassing op grondbeheerhervorming word bespreek om te bepaal tot watter
mate dit wel in die Wet aanwending vind. Die tydrowende prosedure van die
registrasie van gemeenskapsreëls word ondersoek, asook die implikasies
indien ‘n gemeenskap nie aan die voorskriftelike bepaling voldoen nie.
Die tesis bespreek en evalueer ook die funksies van die twee instellings wat
statutêr geskep is, naamlik grond administrasie komitees en grondregte rade.
Die twee instellings is geskep met die doel om van hulp te wees in die
effektiewe administrasie van grond in die kommunale areas. Dit is veral die
grond administrasie komitee wat problematies is, omdat die Wet op Kommunale
Grondregte bepaal dat waar ‘n gemeenskap ‘n erkende tradisionele owerheid
het, hierdie owerheid beskou sal word as die grond administrasie komitee van
daardie spesifieke gemeenskap. In hierdie konteks is ‘n bespreking van die Wet
op Tradisionele Leierskap en Regeringsraamwerk, noodsaaklik.
Die betwiste grondwetlike kwessie wat tot op hede nog onbeslis is wat hiermee
verband hou, sal ook bespreek word. ‘n Kort uiteensetting word gedoen van die
vier gemeenskappe wat die Wet op grondwetlik gronde aanveg om presies te
probeer aantoon hoe problematies die instelling van tradisionele leierskap is.
Hierdie studie bespreek en analiseer verder ook die kompromis wat getref is
tussen registrasie van die titelakte in die naam van ‘n gemeenskap en die
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registrasie van sogenaamde “nuwe orde regte” in die naam van individue. Die
impak van hierdie magdom registrasies op die bestaande registrasiesisteem
word ook oorweeg.
Die grondwetlikheid van die ministeriële besluitnemingsbevoegdheid word
breedvoerig bespreek in hierdie studie. Al hierdie genoemde kwessies mag
nadelige impak hê op die implementering van die Wet op Kommunale
Grondregte en spesifiek ook op grondbeheerhervorming.
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Danso, Antwi Adjei. "Design of a communal land tenure information system for Namibia." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16084.
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Bibliography: pages 77-83.<br>This thesis describes some of the communal land tenure systems pertaining to Namibia. Understandably, lands held under communal land tenure have tended to be neither fully documented nor legally and explicitly formalised; communal land tenure systems have been through the mercy of arbitrary action by the state, private individuals or other institutions (S.A Government, 1996: 43). The study attempts to examine the issues involved in the design of a communal land tenure information system for Namibia. It therefore seeks to examine the possibility of using information technology to plan and manage customarily held land, the requirement for an effective design and implementation of such a system and the method of designing such an information system to make room for continual improvement and the addition of finer detail. The research begins with an in-depth literature review of the communal land tenure systems in Namibia and a description of similar information systems. This is followed by the research methodology, which describes the technique used for collecting, analysing and presenting the results of the study. The needs analysis and the data structure contained in the atlas are outlined. The fundamental concepts of database design and the various steps taken by the author to design and construct the land tenure database model for the dissertation are also discussed. The pilot project is analysed, taking into account the capability of the system, its success in terms of a needs analysis, and the adequacy of the data. It specifically analyses the design in the light of social relationships, person or group interests and the spatial component of communal land tenure systems with respect to each area. In addition, it seeks to answer the question whether the tool fits the communal land tenure system, discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the overall system design and the implementation strategies. It is envisaged that, with the provision of the information system in union with its database, this will help to identify and document a communal land tenure system. For the rural dweller or farmer, this system will provide a pictorial image of what is really happening on the ground. The information system could later be upgraded and fully implemented, enabling individuals to effectively plan activities around the existing circumstances and conditions. The recommendation that came out from the study was that given the limited information available on communal land tenure systems, more effort should be spent to study and gather data on the system. It is strongly recommended, therefore, that research into conditions in the communal areas be regarded as a top pri01ity by the Government of Namibia. This could lead to a richer information base in the communal areas to be utilised to improve the lifestyle of the rural communities. Thus, the prototype project designed in this thesis should be implemented fully and later developed and incorporated into an information system which, in the past, has lacked communal land tenure input. The research could not touch on all the communal land tenure areas in Namibia. It is therefore advised that the rest should be investigated in more detail. The inheritance and conflict resolution mechanism which were not modelled effectively should also be reinvestigated.
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Lethobeng, Pogiso Alfred Modise. "Statutory framework for land tenure reform in communal areas / Lethobeng, PAM." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8103.
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Tenure reform in South Africa is regarded as necessary to sustain social and economic growth and stability, particularly in rural areas where there are high levels of poverty and inequality. In fostering political agendas, black people were systematically distanced from the land under apartheid. Therefore the democratic government’s efforts in redressing the imbalances and providing redress through the land restitution and redistribution programmes are very much dependent upon the success of the Land Tenure Reform Programme.1 This study will mainly concentrate on land tenure reform in communal areas.
Customary land tenure has to be understood in the context of an extended family set–up, where it underpins the idea of social solidarity which gives rise to the “community land ethic”.2 Customary land tenure also reflects the subsistence economy, where land is either not exploited for commercial purposes at all or only to a limited extent.3 Normally, this land cannot be sold but it devolves in the family. A family is normally allotted residential and arable land and once allotted; the person acquires access to natural resources on the commonage. Although the person allotted land occupies it exclusive of the rights of others, he or she cannot be described as an owner in the western sense of the word, as he or she does not have the power to sell it. He or she, however, has the most extensive right in the law and may be regarded as “communal owner”.4
1 Mahomed Understanding Land Tenure Law 1–2.
2 Dlamini “Land ownership” 41.
3 Dlamini “Land ownership” 41.
4 Ratsialingwa and Another v Sibasa 1949 3 781 (A) 791–792.
The Constitution plays a pivotal role in ensuring that people’s rights to access to land are protected. The Bill of Rights in the Constitution guarantees the right of everyone to have access to land and housing as well as security of tenure. Various laws were enacted to give effect to the guarantees of secure tenure in communal areas after 1991. As a person’s right to land in customary law may be terminated by the traditional leader in consultation with his council, the Interim Protection of Informal Land Rights Act5 (IPILRA) provides that people may not be deprive of an “informal right to land” without their consent except by expropriation. The Communal Land Rights Act6 (CLARA) was intended to give effect to section 25(6) and (9) of the Constitution. The aim of CLARA was to provide for legal security of tenure through a process of transferring the communal land to communities or persons, usually on land held for communities by designated community leaders. Secondary aims were to award comparable redress where such transfer was not practicable; the conduct of land inquiries to determine the transition from old order rights to new order rights; the democratic administration of communal land; the establishment of land rights boards; and co–operation of municipalities in respect in respect of communal land.7
The Green Paper8 proposes an improved trajectory for land reform which is supported by the following programmes and institutions: a recapitalisation and development programme; a single land tenure system with four tiers; a Land Management Commission; a Land Valuer–General and a Land Rights Management Board. The change agenda pursued in the Green Paper is that in order to create a new trajectory for land reform, a set of proposals are put forward which attempts to break from the past without significantly disrupting agricultural production and food security, and avoid redistributions that do not generate livelihoods, employment and incomes.<br>Thesis (LLM (Estate Law))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012.
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Metcalfe, Simon Christopher. "Communal land reform in Zambia: governance, livelihood and conservation." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_1409_1242373575.
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<p>Communal land tenure reform in Zambia is the overarching subject of study in this thesis. It is an important issue across southern Africa, raising questions of governance, livelihood security and conservation. WIldlife is a 'fugitive' and 'mobile' resource that traverses the spatially fixed tenure of communal lands, national parks and public forest reserves. The management of wildlife therefore requires that spatially defined proprietorial rights accommodate wildlife's temporal forage use. Land may bebounded in tenure, but if bounded by fences its utility as wildlife habitat is undermined. If land is unfenced, but its landholder cannot use wildlife then it is more a liability than an asset. Africa's terrestrial wildlife has enormous biodiversity value but its mobility requires management collaboration throughout its range, and the resolution of conflicting ecological and economic management scales. The paper does not aim to describe and explain the internal communal system of tenure over land and natural resources but rather how the communal system interacts with the state and the private sector.</p>
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Soria, Dall’Orso Carlos Antonio Martín. "Understanding land tenure and the dimension of the territory: Land, territory, private property, public property and communal property." Derecho & Sociedad, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/118996.
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The author analyzes the land tenure and size of the territory and the different perspectives of understanding the property, starting with the western angle of private property, with the individualistic nuance, through public ownership with its nuance of State resources, and finally by the idea of communal property with the collectivist hue, whose ownership lies not with the individual, or the state, but on a group previously identified as culturally consolidated.<br>El autor realiza un análisis sobre la tenencia de la tierra y la dimensión del territorio, así como de las diferentes perspectivas de entender la propiedad, empezando por el ángulo occidental de la propiedad privada, con el matiz individualista, pasando por la propiedad pública con su matiz de recurso estatal, y, finalmente, por la idea de propiedad comunal con el matiz colectivista, cuya titularidad no recae sobre el individuo, o sobre el Estado, sino sobre un colectivo previamente identificado como culturalmente consolidado.
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Dore, Dale. "Land tenure and the economics of rural transformation : a study of strategies to relieve land pressure and poverty in the communal areas of Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/53489072.html.
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Ncube, Richmond. "Land Tenure Rights and Poverty Reduction in Mafela Resettlement Community (Matobo District, Zimbabwe)." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_4825_1323161074.
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In this research, I present critical facts about Land Tenure Systems and Poverty Reduction processes in Mafela Resettlement community. I focus mainly on the Post-Fast Track Land Reform (2004 â 2011) period and the interactive processes in this new resettlement area. The research - premised on the rights approach - sought to explore land tenure rights systems and poverty reduction mechanisms seen by the Mafela community to be improving their livelihoods<br>it also sought to find out if there is evidence linking tenure rights to poverty reduction and how land tenure rights governance systems affect their livelihoods. Suffice to say in both the animal kingdom and human world, territorial space and integrity, its demarcation as well as how resources are used within the space, given the area - calls for a - defined system of rights by the residents themselves. Whilst it is true that there is no one story about Zimbabweâs land reform (Scoones et al 2011), the contribution of this research towards insights emanating from the newly resettled farmers adds another invaluable contribution in the realm of rural development issues.
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Roux, Lani Maré. "Using LIS in the development of land tenure arrangements in communal property associations : a study of Algeria." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4981.
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Summary in English.<br>Bibliography: leaves 148-150.<br>This thesis investigates the contribution of land information systems (LIS), integrated with video evidence, to improving security of tenure during the creation of a communal property association (CPA). To this end a case study was conducted of the Algeria community, a community in the process of creating a CPA.
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Bounmixay, Luck. "Communal land tenure : a social anthropological study in Laos= Tierras comunales: un estudio socio-antropológico en Laos." Doctoral thesis, TDR (Tesis Doctorales en Red), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/365045.
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La República Democrática Popular de Laos (Lao PDR) o Laos es un país montañoso y sin acceso al mar situado en el centro de la región continental del Sudeste Asiático, en la frontera con Myanmar, China, Camboya, Tailandia y Vietnam. Es considerado uno de los países más boscosos de la región, y está clasificado como una de las regiones con mayor diversidad cultural, con casi el 50 por ciento de población indígena. Sin embargo, es una de las naciones más pobres del mundo. Durante la última década, los recursos forestales se han degradado considerablemente debido a la tala, las concesiones privadas, la energía hidráulica y la minería, así como a los cultivos itinerantes intensificados por el progresivo aumento de la densidad poblacional en las tierras altas. La política del Gobierno de Laos se ha centrado en la erradicación de esta agricultura itinerante, pero el programa gubernamental inicial de reasignación de tierras y bosques ha significado la pérdida por parte de diversos grupos étnicos sobre el uso de las tierras de secano, al no estar ya permitido el uso del suelo consuetudinario con barbechos largos. En este nuevo contexto, ninguno de los grupos étnicos de las tierras altas tienen ya derecho a la tierra que utilizan. No obstante, todavía existen muchos sistemas de uso de la tierra tradicionales y ecológicamente racionales en la República Democrática Popular de Laos en áreas remotas, y que mantienen la forma de tenencia comunal. Aquí la tierra es gestionada por el pueblo, que cada año la redistribuye según las necesidades y el trabajo. Esta investigación se centra en estos sistemas tradicionales, buscando identificar qué características de este régimen de gestión comunal podría ayudar a sustituir la actual “degradación” por la “innovación” en el uso de la tierra. La hipótesis de la investigación es que estos regímenes de propiedad común son un medio para que los pobres puedan garantizar el acceso a los flujos de beneficios de los recursos naturales, sirviendo así como una “red de seguridad contra la vulnerabilidad”. Al mismo tiempo y lo más importante, esta tenencia comunal reconocida por el gobierno puede reducir considerablemente para estas comunidades los riesgos derivados de las concesiones privadas. Esta tesis utiliza por tanto la teoría de Elinor Ostrom sobre los “Recursos de Propiedad Común” (CPR), y demás literatura sobre lo común para probar las hipótesis de la investigación. El estudio de campo se llevó a cabo en la provincia de Houaphan en la RDP de Laos, y se centra en los grupos étnicos Hmong y Tai Daeng en tres distritos (Xum-Nue, Viengxay y Sopbao). Así se entiende la gestión de la tierra comunal tradicional como un sistema que para los grupos étnicos de la zona está vinculado a su cultura. Este sistema permite la equidad y puede ser exportado en virtud de acuerdos institucionales apropiados a otros lugares del país, siempre y cuando el gobierno apruebe títulos de propiedad comunal –permitidos por la ley pero aún no implementados–. Asimismo, el gobierno se percató de que las tierras de estas regiones no pueden estar sometidas durante mucho más tiempo a la agricultura itinerante –debido como dijimos a la creciente densidad de población–, por lo que son necesarias medidas proactivas que garanticen la restauración apresurada de los barbechos. Este cambio en el uso más racional de la tierra puede derivarse precisamente del control comunal de sus tierras. Este estudio no sólo debe ser considerado como una importante contribución al actual proceso de toma de decisiones sobre la política de tierras; debe ser entendido además en su dimensión práctica sobre la gestión del suelo en la RDP de Laos.<br>Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) or Laos is a landlocked and mountainous country situated in the center of the Continental Southeast Asia region bordering with Myanmar, China, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. It is considered one of the most forested countries in the region and ranked as one of the most culturally diverse with almost 50 percent indigenous peoples. Yet, it is one of the poorest nations in the world. Over the last decade, forest resources have become degraded because of logging, concessions, hydropower and mining as well as shifting cultivation due to rising population density in the uplands. Lao Government policy has focused on eradicating shifting cultivation, but the initial government land and forest allocation program meant that the ethnic groups lost their rain-fed upland fields as they were no longer allowed to practice customary land use with long fallows. None of the upland ethnic groups have title to the land they use. Many environmentally sound traditional land use systems still exist in Lao PDR in remote areas in the form of communal tenure. Here the land is managed by the village which each year re-distributes it according to need and labor. This research focuses on these traditional systems to identify which particular features of the management regime could help “reverse degradation by innovation”. The research hypothesis is that common property regimes are a means for the poor to secure access to natural resources’ benefit streams that serve as a safety net against vulnerability. At the same time and most importantly, with communal tenure recognized by government, the communities can lower the risk of their lands being grabbed by concessions. The thesis reviews Elinor Ostrom’s theory on Common Property Resource (CPR) of literature to test the hypothesis. Field study was conducted in Houaphan province in Lao PDR focusing on Hmong and Tai Daeng ethnic groups in three districts (Xum-Nue, Viengxay and Sopbao). It is seen that the traditional communal land management as a system which for the ethnic groups is linked to their culture. It allows for equity and if the government endorses communal land title which is possible by law but not yet implemented, this system could be copied under appropriate institutional arrangements to other places in the country. It is also realized that land may not be under shifting cultivation for many more years due to growing population density and that proactive measures should be taken to quickly restore the fertility of the fallows. This change of land use can best be practiced by the communities as a whole with control over their lands. This study is not only considered an important contribution to current land policy making process; it also is necessary to take into account when carrying out in practice land management in Lao PDR.
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Ntshona, Zolile Mninawa. "The contribution of communal rangelands to rural people's livelihoods in the Maluti district." University of Western Cape, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7390.
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Magister Philosophiae (Land and Agrarian Studies) - MPhil(LAS)<br>The contribution of common property resources to rural people's livelihoods is enormous, yet policy makers overlook it. Wild resources, grazing resources and trees provide an important buffer for most rural households. This study investigates the contribution of common property resources, in particular communal rangeland resources, to rural people's livelihoods in the Maluti District of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Looking at an array of livelihood strategies which people use, the study investigates the proportional contribution of different livelihood strategies with reference to common property resources, specifically wild resources, grazing resources and trees.
Books on the topic "Communal land tenure"
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Gulbrandsen, Ørnulf. Access to agricultural land & communal land management in eastern Botswana. Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1985.
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Hoben, Allan. Resource tenure issues in Somalia. Boston University, African Studies Center, 1985.
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Biesele, Megan. Land issues in Nyae Nyae: A communal areas example in Namibia. NNDFN, 1991.
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit. A decade of communal land reform in Namibia: Review and lessons learnt, with a focus on communal land rights registration. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, 2014.
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Rohde, Rick. Tinkering with chaos: Towards a communal land tenure policy in former Damaraland. Social Sciences Division, Multi-Disciplinary Research Centre, University of Namibia, 1994.
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Kasanga, R. K. Land tenure and the development dialogue: The myth concerning communal landholding in Ghana. Dept. of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, 1988.
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Murombedzi, James C. Communal land tenure and common property resource management: An evaluation of the potential for sustainable common property resource management in Zimbabwe's communal areas. Centre for Applied Social Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, 1990.
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Murombedzi, James C. The need for appropriate local level common property resource management institutions in communal tenure regimes. Centre for Applied Social Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, 1990.
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Bank, Asian Development, ed. Land and cultural survival: The communal land rights of indigenous peoples in Asia. Asian Development Bank, 2009.
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Memea Kruse, Line-Noue. "Individually Owned Lands and Communal Land Tenure." In The Pacific Insular Case of American Sāmoa. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69971-4_7.
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Griffin, Keith. "Communal Land Tenure Systems and their Role in Rural Development." In Theory and Reality in Development. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18128-5_11.
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Griffin, Keith. "Communal Land Tenure Systems and Their Role in Rural Development." In World Hunger and the World Economy. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18739-3_3.
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Mayer, Enrique. "Land Tenure and Communal Control in Laraos." In The Articulated Peasant. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429496820-9.
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Nsoh, Walters. "The Legal Status of Customary Land Tenure Systems and the Protection of Communal Property in Cameroon." In Legal Strategies for the Development and Protection of Communal Property. British Academy, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266380.003.0006.
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The ownership and utilisation of communal property are very much tied to the modern land tenure systems of most sub-Saharan African countries, which nevertheless still rely on the customary land tenure system to operate. But how exactly do the customary land tenure systems which remain operational in many parts of Africa fit into contemporary land ownership and use structures? Drawing on a broad interpretation of (African) customary land tenure and its elements, including its communal interest element, this chapter assesses the extent to which law and practice in Cameroon are developing and protecting communal property. Using developments in the protection of collective forest rights as an example, it demonstrates the continuous difficulty in reconciling Western land law principles on the ownership and use of communal property with customary land tenure systems in post-colonial sub-Saharan African societies, and the implications this may have for the wider rule of law in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa.
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"Chapter Five. Customary Land Tenure and Communal Holdings." In Property Rights, Indigenous People and the Developing World. Brill | Nijhoff, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004166943.i-296.33.
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"Contemporary land reform in Africa." In The politics of land reform in Africa: From communal tenure to free markets. Zed Books, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350223431.ch-02.
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"The future of land relations." In The politics of land reform in Africa: From communal tenure to free markets. Zed Books, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350223431.ch-06.
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Dale, Peter, and John McLaughlin. "Introduction and Overview." In Land Administration. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198233909.003.0005.
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1948 saw the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. All governments that signed the Declaration formally recognized that human beings have a right to adequate shelter as one component of their right to an adequate standard of living. In 1996, at the Habitat II Conference, many countries committed themselves to ‘Promoting optimal use of productive land in urban and rural areas and protecting fragile ecosystems and environmentally vulnerable areas from the negative impacts of human settlements, inter alia, through developing and supporting the implementation of improved land management practises’ (UNCHS 1996). Access to land and security for credit are vital components of sustainable development and good land management practice; every State needs to ensure that efficient and effective land administration mechanisms are in place. Land is a physical thing that encompasses the surface of the earth and all things attached to it both above and below. It is also an abstract thing that is manifest as a set of rights to its use with a value that can be traded even though the physical object cannot be moved. The term ‘land administration’ is used here to refer to those public sector activities required to support the alienation, development, use, valuation, and transfer of land. The relationship between human beings and the land is of fundamental importance in every society and is evident in the form of property rights. This relationship has evolved in many different ways, from full state control, through communal forms of tenure, to the individual property rights. In the land reform programmes of the 1960s, especially in Africa, new land tenure arrangements such as the granting of individual freehold rights were introduced, often contrary to traditional custom and practice. In the reforms of today, especially in east and central Europe, the land restitution programmes have reprivatized land previously owned by individuals. They have also granted first-time rights of private ownership to what was formerly state-owned land, on the basis of the traditions of the past, thus reinforcing old land tenure arrangements.
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"Agrarian Social Change and Post-Colonial Natural Resource Management Interventions in Southern Africa’s ‘Communal Tenure’ Regimes." In Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land. Routledge, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781849775052-10.
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A. LOPES, José, and Ignacio J. DIAZ-MAROTO. "INPUT OF COMMUNAL FORESTS TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RURAL POPULATION: STUDY CASE OF NORTHERN PORTUGAL AND GALICIA." In RURAL DEVELOPMENT. Aleksandras Stulginskis University, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.15544/rd.2017.227.
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Communal forests occupy one million hectares in the Northern of Portugal and Galicia. Since centuries ago, “Baldios” and “Montes Veciñais en Man Común” (MVMC) played an essential function in the economy of their owner communities. This role was lost all through the last century due to the enormous afforestation and the decrease of agriculture. The restitution of democratic regimes returned the communal forests tenure to the communities. Given the extension and high average area, our paper aims to research its potentialities and limitations of contribution to rural development. Two case studies, one in North Portugal and another one in Galicia, allow identifying the individual and collective traditional uses and the achievements made with revenues linked. Both Galician and Portuguese realities exhibit similarities and complementary benefits, and needing social and economic innovation to make a better use of rural resilience. Communal lands and small-scale business projects could maintain the network of local produce markets with attractive aesthetic values as well as biodiversity conservation. The comparison of the different criteria shows economic aspects are the most valorised by the stakeholders. The management decision of collective forests was the alternative mixed by the communities and the Forestry Services as the best one to complete the main objective of sustainable rural development. As a final conclusion of our work, remarking that the communities owning these forests currently seem to have the conditions to successfully manage their properties if the commoners are able to mobilize and adequate organize the communities.