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This paper reviews the scholarly literature discussing the effect(s) of land registration on the relations between land tenure security and agricultural productivity.
Land administration constitutes the socio-technical systems that govern land tenure, use, value and development within a jurisdiction. The land parcel is the fundamental unit of analysis. Each parcel has identifiable boundaries, associated rights, and linked parties.
A discussion of the assumptions that underlie efforts to register land enables us to not only evaluate their validity across different contexts, but most importantly, to further understand how the low incidences of land registration might derive from very fundamental sources outside of difference
Documentation of land rights can ensure tenure security and facilitate smooth land transactions, but in most countries of the global south this has been difficult to achieve.
Land administration is one of the pillars of economic development and poverty reduction. Land registration and cadastres make up an important part of land administration.
When you buy a home, should that also mean you have to inform the whole world where you live, how much you paid for it, and whether you financed the purchase with a mortgage loan? In essence, the Netherlands and England & Wales answer this question in the affirmative.
Dutch Abstract: De openbare registers voor registergoederen zijn voor iedereen toegankelijk. Eenieder kan inzage verzoeken bij de Dienst voor het kadaster en de openbare registers (‘het Kadaster’).
The land registration system in Kenya was established in 1897 to support land registration for white settlers who had come into the country during the 19th Century.
Kenya’s Vision 2030 aims at transforming the country into a newly industrialized middle income country
and infrastructural development is high on the agenda to achieve this. Competing land uses and existing