Community land formalization and company land acquisition procedures: A review of 33 procedures in 15 countries
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Date of publication
February 2020
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NARCIS:eur:oai:repub.eur.nl:130103
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Indigenous and community lands, crucial for rural livelihoods, are typically held under informal customary
tenure arrangements. This can leave the land vulnerable to outside commercial interests, so communities may
seek to formalize their land rights in a government registry and obtain an official land document. But this process
can be time-consuming and complex, and in contrast, companies can acquire land relatively quickly and find
shortcuts around regulatory burdens. This article reviews and maps 19 community land formalization and 14
company land acquisition procedures is 15 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Comparing community
and company procedures identifies multiple sources of inequity.
