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Abstract With an estimated 50% of global land held, used, or otherwise managed by communities, interfacing indigenous, customary, and informal land tenure systems with official land administration systems is critical to achieving universal land tenure security at a global scale.
While strengthening women’s land rights is increasingly on national and international agendas, there is little consensus on how to understand women’s tenure security.
Land as an essential resource is becoming increasingly scarce due to population growth. In the case of the Kenyan coast, population pressure causes land cover changes in the Arabuko Sokoke Forest, which is an important habitat for endangered species.
Pastoralism faces diverse challenges, that include, among others, land tenure insecurity, that has necessitated the need to formalize land rights.
Hybrid land tenure administration occurs in a number of South Africa’s state-subsidised housing projects and in the informal settlements from which the housing beneficiaries tend to be drawn. Ownership is the tenure form in most of these housing projects.
In Myanmar, almost half of the rural population is said to be landless : it is the highest rate of landlessness in the Mekong region.
In Myanmar, millions of farmers are at risk of being considered trespassers on their own land after the adoption of a controversial law.
Le mercredi 20 mars 2019 dans les locaux de l’AFD à Paris, le Comité technique « Foncier & développement » a organisé une réunion consacrée aux politiques foncières et de mise en valeur des terres en Algérie.
