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Inclusive Land Governance in Mozambique: Good Law, Bad Politics?

Reports & Research
Agosto, 2016
Mozambique
África

Analyses inclusive land governance in Mozambique. Focuses on the country’s legal framework and the DUAT, the right to use and benefit from the land. The DUAT is a distinctive element of the Mozambican legislation that has land as the property of the state but recognises land use rights for occupants and users on the basis of a unitary system of tenure. The challenges of putting in practice what is thought to be one of Africa’s most progressive legal frameworks are discussed.

‘Our land they took’: San land rights under threat in Namibia

Reports & Research
Diciembre, 2006
Namibia
África

A study of the San, the poorest and most marginalised minority group in Namibia, with little access to existing political and economic institutions. They have been dispossessed of most of their ancestral lands and on lands they still occupy there are major issues of resource overuse, degradation, illegal grazing, unclear legal status and ongoing threats of dispossession. Looks at threats to San lands in 4 distinct parts of the country and the legal issues raised by those threats.

Trends in global land use investment: implications for legal empowerment

Reports & Research
Diciembre, 2017
África

From the mid-2000s, a commodity boom underpinned a wave of land use investments in low- and middle-income countries. While agribusiness, mining and petroleum concessions often involve promises of jobs and public revenues, they have also prompted concerns about land dispossession, exclusionary investment models and infringements of the rights of vulnerable groups. One of the major challenges is in empowering rural people to make informed choices, exercise their rights and have their voices heard.

Reshaping the Debate on Land Alienation in Africa: What are the Origins of Social Change?

Reports & Research
Abril, 2016
África

Based on current research in eastern Uganda, looks at inter-family conflicts over land, many of which go unresolved for years. Some fear that titling will lead to future dispossession as titled land is easier to sell. Such small-scale disputes do not drive the research and media agenda but represent the vast majority of conflicts over land in Africa.

Zimbabwe’s Contested Large-Scale Land-Based Investment: The Chisumbanje Ethanol Project

Reports & Research
Junio, 2015
Zimbabwe
África

Presents an example of a biofuels production project and its value chain to argue that there is a need for a land and investment policy to guide communities, investors and stakeholders. The expansion of commercial sugarcane farming and the establishment of an ethanol refinery at Chisumbanje in Chipinge District present both opportunities and risks for rural people. Without clarity on land tenure, investors are faced with challenges when deciding the extent to which they can put their money into agriculture.

History Repeating itself in Zimbabwe? Evictions in 2002 and 1948

Reports & Research
Enero, 2003
Zimbabwe
África

Presents two personal testimonies of eviction and dispossession to illustrate the long and complex political history of land in Zimbabwe. The first concerns the eviction of white commercial farmers from one district in December 2002, the second of black peasant farmers in 1948, to make way for the white post-1945 white war veterans.

Remoções forçadas, moradas desmanteladas

Reports & Research
Julio, 2016
América del Sur
Brasil

O objetivo desta dissertação é compreender os significados atribuídos à moradia pelas famílias do bairro Loteamento São Francisco, no município de Camaragibe –PE, que tiveram suas casas demolidas por causa do grande projeto de investimento associado à realização da Copa do Mundo de 2014.

Mas com isso a gente começou duas vezes no meio do mato : memórias dos desapropriados do Parque Nacional do Iguaçu (Oeste do Paraná, 1970-2009)

Reports & Research
Diciembre, 2010
Brasil
Argentina

Esta investigación analiza el proceso histórico de expropriación de los colonos agricultores que vivian dentro del Parque Nacional de Iguazú (PNI) en el Oeste de Paraná, que se produjo en la década de 1970. En este sentido, investiga las memórias y dinámicas socioculturales relacionados con la institución del parque como una zona de protección ambiental.

Despojo, baldíos y conflicto armado en Puerto Gaitán y Mapiripán (Meta, Colombia) entre 1980 y 2010

Journal Articles & Books
Colombia

Este artículo busca mostrar cómo ocurrió el despojo y la concentración de tierras baldías, y el desarrollo del conflicto en Puerto Gaitán y Mapiripán entre 1980 y 2010. A partir del análisis de registros públicos, mapas y entrevistas realizadas en terreno, este trabajo concluyó que los mecanismos desarrollados por el gobierno para desarrollar una reforma agraria no garantizaron seguridad en los derechos de propiedad, desatando constantes ciclos de despojo.

Transformaciones territoriales a partir del abandono y despojo de tierra asociado a la acción de grupos armados caso María la Baja departamento de Bolívar

Reports & Research
Colombia

La acción de los grupos armados al margen de la ley ha generado profundas transformaciones en los territorios donde han logrado ejercer su control. En el mundo rural, una de las principales afectaciones especialmente asociada con la acción de los grupos paramilitares, se dio en el abandono y despojo de tierras mediante de diversos mecanismos de violencia y constreñimiento tales como el desplazamiento forzado.

Expropiación indirecta : justificación, regímenes, casos, criterios y usos

Journal Articles & Books
Estados Unidos de América
Perú

A partir del análisis de la jurisprudencia de la Corte Suprema norteamericana y del Tribunal Constitucional peruano, así como de nuestro marco normativo, el autor analiza los diversos criterios para determinar cuando estamos frente un supuesto de expropiación indirecta, tales como a magnitud de la medida, la expectativa razonable, el beneficio del Estado, la inviabilidad económica del bien, entre otros.