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There is greater recognition that policies and projects should respect legitimate tenure rights. But this concept has often proved difficult to operationalise.
A report by Global Agriculture examines the agricultural impact of multinational land deals (aka ‘land grabbing’) which are found to be directly harmful to local food security and livelihoods.
Outlines how state and civil society-led legal empowerment initiatives can help secure land and resource rights;strengthen governance;improve access to legal systems and increase citizen participation in decision making.
A recent wave of large-scale commercial investments in agriculture;extractive industries and other land-based sectors has compounded the ‘global resource squeezein low- and middle-income countries.
New public policies and changing economic fundamentals have spurred private sector investment in commercial agriculture in low- and middle-income countries.
Land registration and titling in Africa are often advocated as a pro-poor legal empowerment strategy. Advocates have put forth different visions of the substantive goals this is to achieve. Some see registration and titling as a way to protect smallholdersrights of access to land.
Presents an overview of 15 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa where land and natural resource tenure initiatives have been implemented over several decades by governments;civil society;the private sector and other developmental organisations.
What can an analysis of power in local communities contribute to debates on women’s legal empowerment and the role of paralegals in Africa?
From the mid-2000s, a commodity boom underpinned a wave of land use investments in low- and middle-income countries.