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Gender equality and land administration

Reports & Research
November, 2014
Zambia

Land, and in particular agricultural land, is central to livelhoods in rural Zambia. Zambia is characterised by a dual legal system of customary and statutory law and by dual land tenure, with state land and customary land. A first wave of socialist-oriented reforms took place after independence in 1964, which abolished previously existing freehold land in favour of leasehold. Subsequent changes in government policies under the influence of structural adjustment programmes and a new government in 1991 paved the way for a market-driven land reform.

Situational Analysis and Development Recommendations by and for Farm Dwellers in Amajuba District Council 2008

Reports & Research
January, 2008
South Africa

A key challenge facing South Africa’s economic development is overcoming the structural poverty created through the systematic dispossession of the majority of its citizens. Although radically marginalized during apartheid, there is poor public acknowledgement of the losses experienced by those families who, through the passing of various racially biased, land and labour laws, became farm labour on commercial farms.

Research Report on the Tenure Security of Labour Tenants and Former Labour Tenants in South Africa

Reports & Research
May, 2017
South Africa

Issues surrounding labour tenancy in South Africa are controversial and complex. The issue is controversial in that that it currently reflects a struggle over access to land and tenure security that spans more than a century. The controversy surrounding labour tenancy derives from the fact that the role players within this scenario often hold widely differentiated perceptions about each other’s rights, duties and respective power relationships.

Research Report on the Tenure Security of Labour Tenants and Former Labour Tenants in South Africa

Reports & Research
May, 2017
South Africa

Issues surrounding labour tenancy in South Africa are controversial and complex. The issue is controversial in that that it currently reflects a struggle over access to land and tenure security that spans more than a century. The controversy surrounding labour tenancy derives from the fact that the role players within this scenario often hold widely differentiated perceptions about each other’s rights, duties and respective power relationships.

Sementes da luta pela terra na Fronteira Brasil-Uruguai:

Reports & Research
February, 2014
South America
Brazil
Uruguay
A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar as mudanças recentes no espaço agrário da fronteira Brasil-Uruguai, mais precisamente no que diz respeito à questão agrária e camponesa. Com um viés libertário, procurase realizar uma análise a respeito da introdução dos projetos de Assentamentos Rurais de Reforma Agrária no município de Santana do Livramento-RS e das recentes ocupações de terra em Bella Unión-UY. Para tal, elabora-se um resgate histórico a respeito do conceito de campesinato com ênfase na discussão a respeito do anarquismo agrário.

Land Tenancy in Asia, Africa and Latin America: A Look to the Past and a View to the Future

December, 1998
Sub-Saharan Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean

Literature review, focusing on recent and contemporary tenancy structures in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Tenancy for purposes of this review is broadly defined to include different leasing arrangements such sharecropping, labor tenancy, fixed cash rentals, and reverse leasing. Authors have limited our discussion to private leasing of agricultural land, thereby ignoring issues pertaining to leasing of public, forest, and other noncrop lands.

Parceleros y su resistencia por la tierra ante la urbanización

Reports & Research
May, 2017
Peru

Con el avance de la urbanización en Lima, muchos parceleros optaron vender sus parcelas a las inmobiliarias. Sin embargo, existe el caso de parceleros y parceleras que vieron la necesidad de resistir a la venta de sus tierras agrícolas para la lotización y tomaron, en ese sentido, diferentes mecanismos, entre ellos la producción agrícola directa y la formación de una asociación de productores.

Familia Mesa Belokón y su decisión de vivir y producir en el campo

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2017
Uruguay

Orieta Belokon y Walter Mesa son colonos del INC en la Colonia San Javier. Ambos iniciaron siendo asalariados rurales. A la par empezaron a producir alquilando tierras.Luego gracias a su trabajo en la producción de leche accedieron a un crédito bancario para comprar sus tierras. Actualmente, además, alquilan una fracción al INC y continúan produciendo leche. Apuesta por su vida en el campo.

Note on: the land tenure system in the Niger customary rights public and private domain

Conference Papers & Reports
January, 1972
Ethiopia
Africa

The Second United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Africa held at Tunis in September 1966, the Niger in association with Madagascar; presented a resolution recommending that the ECA organize a seminar on cadastre. It was hoped that such a seminar would enable the Niger to become acquainted with and compare the latest methods used by certain African countries and possibly to benefit from their experience in establishing a cadastre in the Niger.

Reconstruction of China’s Farmland Rights System Based on the ‘Trifurcation of Land Rights’ Reform

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2020
China

With the aim of improving farmland use efficiency without damaging the social function of farmland, Chinese policymakers have proposed the ‘trifurcation of land rights’ reform. When it comes to realization of the law, however, neither the Ownership Model nor the Bundle of Sticks Model can adequately explain this reform. The tree concept of property, which provides a new perspective in delineating property rights based on the function served by specific properties, is thus adopted.