Contemporary Customary Land Issues in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Customary Land Issues in Africa write by J. Oloka-Onyango. This book was released on 2018-07-26. Contemporary Customary Land Issues in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions
Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions write by Walter Timo de Vries. This book was released on 2020-07-16. Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
African Land Questions, Agrarian Transitions and the State
African Land Questions, Agrarian Transitions and the State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Land Questions, Agrarian Transitions and the State write by Sam Moyo. This book was released on 2008. African Land Questions, Agrarian Transitions and the State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Politics of Land Reform in Africa
The Politics of Land Reform in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Land Reform in Africa write by Doctor Ambreena Manji. This book was released on 2013-07-04. The Politics of Land Reform in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Across Africa land is being commodified: private ownership is replacing communal and customary tenure; Farms are turned into collateral for rural credit markets. Law reform is at the heart of this revolution. The Politics of Land Reform in Africa casts a critical spotlight on this profound change in African land economy. The book illuminates the key role of legislators, legal consultants and academics in tenure reform. These players exert their influence by translating the economic and regulatory interests of the World Bank, civil society groups and commercial lenders in to questions of law. Drawing on political economy and actor-network theory The Politics of Land Reform in Africa is an indispensable contribution to the study of agrarian change in developing countries.
Land Tenure Challenges in Africa
Land Tenure Challenges in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Land Tenure Challenges in Africa write by Horman Chitonge. This book was released on 2022-01-01. Land Tenure Challenges in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
