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Journal articles on the topic "Land tenure – Africa, West"

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Fenske, James. "Land tenure and investment incentives: Evidence from West Africa." Journal of Development Economics 95, no. 2 (July 2011): 137–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2010.05.001.

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Sanfo, Safiétou, William M. Fonta, Ulrich J. Diasso, Michel P. Nikiéma, John P. A. Lamers, and Jerôme E. Tondoh. "Climate- and Environment-Induced Intervillage Migration in Southwestern Burkina Faso, West Africa." Weather, Climate, and Society 9, no. 4 (October 1, 2017): 823–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/wcas-d-16-0065.1.

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Abstract This study investigated key environmental factors causing intervillage migration by farmers. Therefore, it used household data from surveys, semistructured interviews, life histories, and focus group discussions in southwestern Burkina Faso, West Africa. The results showed that 1) when referring to the experienced historical weather and climate, farmers were aware of the effects of ongoing climate and environmental change; 2) soil degradation, land tenure insecurity, and lack of rainfall were major drivers of environment-induced migration; and 3) soil fertility, productivity, rainfall, and humidity, as well as land tenure security, were major pull factors. Farmers indirectly identified population pressure as a major driver of intervillage migration since it contributes to land degradation and land tenure insecurity. It is argued that migration implicitly adds to the natural climate and environmental stresses. When aiming to elaborate suitable land-use planning, the findings call for additional research that is needed to understand better the complex interrelationships between environmental drivers and permanent, environment-driven intervillage migration.
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Ekpodessi, Serge G. N., and Hitoshi Nakamura. "Impact of Insecure Land Tenure on Sustainable Agricultural Development: A Case Study of Agricultural Lands in the Republic of Benin, West Africa." Sustainability 14, no. 21 (October 28, 2022): 14041. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su142114041.

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This study assesses the impact of insecure land tenure on sustainable agricultural development in Africa to demonstrate how the economic profitability of agriculture strongly depends on land tenure security. The Republic of Benin is used as the case study following the country’s recent enactment of land law 2013-01 that focuses on reorganizing the land sector, which has suffered from inappropriate management since the colonial era. Through an interview survey among landowners and presumed owners combined with standardized observations in designated rural areas, issues related to the use and management of rural lands in the Republic of Benin are highlighted and discussed. The result demonstrates that agricultural economic profitability strongly depends on land tenure security. The outcome reveals land security as a key factor for sustainable agriculture toward poverty reduction and confirms the unbreakable link between land tenure security, agricultural production, and sustainable development.
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Guinin Asso, Inoussa, Soulé Akinhola Adéchian, Mohamed Salifou, Bédé Prudence M’po Kouyinampou, Bruno Charles Pierre O’heix, and Mohamed Nasser Baco. "Effects of the Systematic Cluster Approach (SCA) and Rural Land Plans (RLPs) on Land Tenure Security for Agricultural Household: Insight from Benin (West Africa)." Land 11, no. 10 (September 28, 2022): 1681. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11101681.

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Rural land plans (RLP) and the systematic cluster approach (SCA) are the two main approaches used in Benin to secure rural land tenure. However, the contributions of these approaches to land tenure security in rural communities are mixed. This paper firstly identifies the main factors to be considered in conceptualizing rural land tenure security and secondly assesses the contributions of the two approaches in achieving rural land tenure security. The study is conducted in four communes of Borgou (a district in North Benin) that have benefited from both approaches to land tenure security. The dimensions of land tenure security were identified during focus group discussions and unstructured interviews with key informants. The contribution of the approaches is assessed using individual surveys from 742 beneficiaries of the approaches randomly selected, based on actors’ perceptions measured on the Likert scale. The nonparametric Friedman test was used to determine the average rank of each factor according to the RLP or SCA context. As a result, land tenure security must integrate nine factors, leading to two forms of land tenure security. Legal and institutional security includes land tenure norms, property rights, local land management institutions, and the land information system. Socioenvironmental security involves access and use rights, social peace, gender mainstreaming, and land conservation. According to stakeholders’ perceptions, RLPs mainly lead to legal-institutional security, whereas SCA combines and contributes to both forms of land tenure security. Rural smallholders will enjoy high levels of land security when these elements are in dynamic balance.
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Sanou, Lassina, Jonas Koala, Souleymane Ouédraogo, and Brama Ouattara. "Influence of Land Tenure on Agroforestry Parkland Phyto-Diversity and Stand Structure in Sudanian Zone of Burkina Faso, West Africa." Global Journal of Agricultural Innovation, Research & Development 9 (March 11, 2022): 20–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.15377/2409-9813.2022.09.3.

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Savanna Zone of Burkina Faso is characterized by the increasing population growth due to human migration from the north and central regions of the country for cultivating agricultural land and pastures. This situation induced land-use changes, and social reorganization has led to new approaches to natural resources management. Tenure issues in natural resources management limit the adoption of agroforestry systems and effective land use scale. This paper describes the species composition, structure, and diversity of woody species on agroforestry parklands at Tiogo under two types of land tenures. Ecological and structural characteristics of vegetation patches were computed to characterize the species composition. A variety of diversity measures were calculated to determine the heterogeneity for each type of land tenure. A total of 49 woody species belonging to 19 families and 38 genera were identified, of which 44 and 48 species were recorded in non-landowners’ farms and landowners' farms, respectively. Leguminosae, Combretaceae and Anacardiaceae were the most abundant families. The dominant species in agroforestry parklands were Vitellaria paradoxa, Parkia biglobosa, Lannea microcarpa, Piliostigma reticulatum and Piliostigma thonningii. Analyses of variance of the entire woody vegetation of agroforestry parklands revealed no significant differences in terms of all computed indexes but showed that the landowners’ farms were the most diverse than non-landowners farms. The density of stems ≥5 cm dbh and the basal area were higher in landowner’s farms than in non-landowners farms. In both types of farms, the size class distributions of the vegetation produced a reverse J-shaped curve, supporting that agroforestry parkland in Tiogo is dominated by young individuals. The spatial distribution of the seedling was mainly clumped, reflecting the dominance of clonal propagation. Security of land and tree tenure is a necessary condition for any land-based investment (planting and protection of preferred species and soil amendment). The challenge to maintain parklands’ tree biodiversity in “good” condition also needs to consider the flexibility of land tenure and equitability sharing of the benefits from trees.
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Lawry, S., D. Stienbarger, and M. A. Jabbar. "Land Tenure and the Potential for the Adoption of Alley Farming in West Africa." Outlook on Agriculture 23, no. 3 (September 1994): 183–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003072709402300305.

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Alley farming was developed as a means of maintaining soil fertility in fields under permanent cultivation in Africa, as population pressure makes the traditional practice of slash-and-burn combined with fallowing unsustainable. It is an agroforestry system under which food crops are grown in alleys formed by hedgerows of leguminous trees and shrubs. Studies have shown that it works, but farmers are only taking it up very slowly. Recent work suggests that land tenure might be a factor in the spread of alley cropping.
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Böhler, Werner. "Foreword." Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad 14, no. 3 (June 9, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2011/v14i3a2582.

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The seminar hosted Potchefstroom in April 2010, entitled 'Good Governance in Land Tenure', followed in the tradition of cooperation between the Faculty of Law of the North West University and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in South Africa. We started our cooperation fourteen years ago with a joint series of seminars under the title 'Constitution and Law'. In 2008 we started our joint project on good governance in Southern Africa with the focus on the impact of globalisation on good governance in Southern Africa, and in 2009 we discussed the topic 'good governance as a mechanism to promote sustainable development in Southern Africa'.
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George Barrie. "The Concept of “Indigenous Land Tenure” Surfaces in Namibia: A Comparative Overview ‒ Agnes Kahimbi Kashela v Katima Mulilo Town Council (SA 15/2017) [2018] NASC 409 (16 November 2018)." Obiter 42, no. 1 (May 2, 2021): 175–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/obiter.v42i1.11065.

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The facts in this case, which fell to be decided by the Supreme Court of Namibia in November 2018, can be succinctly put: in 1985, Ms Kashela’s late father was allocated a piece of land as part of communal land by the Mafwe Traditional Authority (MTA) in the Caprivi region of the then-South West Africa (now Namibia). In 1985, the Caprivi region fell under the then-South West Africa Administration. Following the independence of Namibia on 21 March 1990, all communal lands became property of the state of Namibia by virtue of section 124 of the Constitution of Namibia Act 1 of 1990, read with Schedule 5 of the Constitution. Paragraph (3) of Schedule 5 of the Constitution states that the afore-mentioned communal lands became property of the state “subject to any existing right, charge, obligation or trust existing on or over such property”.
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Stamm, Volker. "Social Research and Development Policy: Two Approaches to West African Land-tenure Problems." Africa Spectrum 44, no. 2 (August 2009): 29–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000203970904400202.

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This article analyses the extent to which the concepts underlying land policies in West Africa that prevail amongst the development organisations most active in this field correspond to the results of the intense debate on the same subject over the last three decades, which has involved almost all branches of the social sciences: ethnology, legal anthropology, sociology, history and rural economics. It is found that the outcomes of these academic analyses are in sharp contrast to the approaches propagated and translated into practice by development agencies, which often start from oversimplified and inadmissibly generalised assumptions, so that one must ask whether the diverging logics of these two disciplines are responsible for this marked difference.
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Brottem, Leif. "HOSTS, STRANGERS AND THE TENURE POLITICS OF LIVESTOCK CORRIDORS IN MALI." Africa 84, no. 4 (October 22, 2014): 638–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972014000424.

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ABSTRACTIn dryland West Africa, policy makers have come to acknowledge livestock mobility as a sound adaptation strategy for variable dryland climate regimes. In Mali, the national government is taking measures to support mobility in the form of grazing zones, conflict management mechanisms and, most notably, livestock passage corridors. These corridors are part of a long and contentious history of territorialization in agrarian West Africa. This paper demonstrates through a comparative case study that livestock corridors can accomplish the agro-ecological objective of improving herd mobility but they also have unforeseen political impacts that depend on socio-spatial relations between farmers and herders. By historicizing corridors and contextualizing them within the host–stranger relationship that is found throughout the region, this paper reveals the different meanings that boundary-making processes take on for autochthonous farmers and mobile herders. In an area where ethnic Fulani herders have settled independently from farming communities, the latter have rejected a proposed corridor. In contrast, farmers in areas where herders are seasonal guests have supported the same measure. These divergent outcomes do not depend simply on different levels of resource competition, but, instead, on the ways in which corridors and their boundaries become inscribed in perceived land claims and power relations between competing groups. These findings have broader implications concerning the interactive changes occurring between autochthonous rights and decentralized democratic institutions in sub-Saharan West Africa.
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Bhe, Ntomboxolo Grace. "Land restitution policy in old West Bank location, East London." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/14620.

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This thesis summarises research on the implementation of land restitution policy in the old West Bank Location, in East London. Apartheid legislation dispossessed many Black people of their land. After 1994, the new democratic government implemented a land reform programme, land policy was reviewed, and people were compensated for the loss of land either financially or through restoration of their land. The original cut-off date for claims was 1998, but the window for claims was reopened in July 2014 because of difficulties in implementation. The period for the lodging of claims was extended to end June 2019 to allow people who had not yet been able to do so to participate in the process. In case of the old West Bank Location claims, compensation was in the form of land restoration, including houses which would be built for the claimants. This study documents the successes and challenges encountered in the implementation of land policy in the old West Bank Location. Triangulation of methods was used: data were collected from documents, interviews with claimants, interviews with government officials, and observation of meetings. Recommendations with regard to land policy are made on the basis of the research findings.
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MANALIS, Georgios. "Essays on macroeconomics and development." Doctoral thesis, European University Institute, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/1814/71516.

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Defence date: 28 May 2021
Examining Board: Professor Evi Pappa (Universidad Carlos III Madrid); Professor Axelle Ferrière (Paris School of Economics); Professor Tasso Adamopoulos (York University); Professor Katheline Schubert (Paris School of Economics)
Land Rights and risk sharing in rural West Africa: Despite arduous efforts of advancing land rights in Africa, most of the continent experiences low levels of formally recognized property. I propose a novel contextualisation of formal land titling that motivates a theoretical model to account for land reforms’ effects when implemented in weak institutional environments with high risk. Village communities have developed informal mechanisms of risk-sharing to provide households with a safety net, while land allocation is centrally decided by traditional leaders. Therefore, when a land reform, aiming at granting individual property rights, takes place, it operates in a highly antagonistic way to the established customary rules. I build a model of risk-sharing with limited commitment to explain the competing forces developed between statutory land reform and informal mutual insurance at the community level. The model shows that a land reform increases the share of surplus that a villager can extract from a risk-sharing contract among community members and decreases the size of the pie available to the community. Additionally, it shows a non-monotonic relation between land allocation and productivity revealing a trade-off between output efficiency and size of risk-sharing. Subsequently, I use data from Burkina Faso to validate the theoretical predictions. Mutual insurance and land security in rural Ghana: We study the impact of land rights’ formalization on functioning of informal insurance and land re-allocations in Ghana’s rural communities. First, we provide empirical evidence suggesting that communities holding more of formal land titles enjoy higher land security, as measured by number of disputes due to multiple claims over land. Second, we find that land reallocations are more intense in those places, leading to increases in agricultural productivity and level of average consumption. Third, we show that communities with higher formality of land rights enjoy improved risk-sharing against idiosyncratic shocks. Motivated by this evidence, we develop a dynamic model of land and risk sharing subject to limited commitment constraints, where the equilibrium degree of co-operation is determined by the degree of formal land rights chosen. We show that the model can rationalize our empirical findings and can serve as a useful quantitative laboratory. Most interestingly, we find that although positive in the data, the effects of increasing land rights may be highly non-linear as at some point they may lead to a complete unraveling of informal co-operation in rural economies. Contagion as a dealmaker? The effect of financial spillovers on regional lending programs: The recent European sovereign debt crisis highlighted the critical role of regional lending arrangements. For the first time, European mechanisms were called to design financing programmes for member countries in trouble. This paper analyses how the risk of contagion, an essential characteristic of interlinked economies, shapes borrowing conditions. We focus on the role of spillovers as a channel of bargaining power that a country might have when asking for financial support from regional lending institutions. We build and present a new database that records both the dates on which official meetings took place, relevant statements were released and the timing of the announcements regarding loan disbursements. This database allows us to assess the defining role that announcements of future actions have in mitigating spillover costs. In addition, we study the design of lending arrangements within a recursive contract between a lender and a sovereign country. When accounting for spillover costs, arising from the borrower to the creditor, we find that it is in the lender’s best interest to back-load consumption by giving more weight to future transfers in order to reduce contagion cost. Subsequently, we test and validate our theoretical predictions by assessing the effect of spillovers on loan disbursements to programme-countries and by juxtaposing lending conditions imposed by the IMF and the European mechanisms.
-- Introduction -- 1 Land rights and risk sharing in rural West Africa -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Literature Review -- 1.3 Background on the land reform in Burkina Faso -- 1.3.1 Loi 034/2009 -- 1.3.2 Rural Land Certificate of Possession (APFR) -- 1.3.3 Assessment of the results of the RLG -- 1.4 One-Sided Limited Commitment with land re-allocation -- 1.5 Data from Burkina Faso -- 1.5.1 Rural Land Governance Project -- 1.5.2 Monitoring the progress of RLG project -- 1.5.3 Empirical Regularities in Burkina Faso -- 1.6 Evidence from the RLG programme in Burkina Faso -- 1.7 Collateralization effect -- 1.8 Conclusion -- References -- 1.9 Appendix -- A Proofs -- B Figures -- C Tables -- D Naive productivity measure -- 2 Mutual insurance and land security in rural Ghana -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Literature Review -- 2.3 Statutory and customary land institutions in Ghana -- 2.4 Empirical analysis -- A Data -- B Suggestive empirical observations -- C Regression analysis -- 2.5 Quantitative model -- A Environment -- B Outside Option -- C First best -- D Land and risk sharing with limited commitment -- E Preliminary quantitative results -- F Outlook on quantitative analysis -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- 2.7 Appendix -- A Regression analysis -- B Endogeneity of selling rights -- C Suggestive empirical observations -- 3 Contagion as a dealmaker? The effect of financial spillovers on regional lending programs -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 A new dataset on loan announcements and disbursements during the Euro crisis -- 3.3 Empirical analysis -- A The Spillover Index - Vector Autoregressive Model -- B Bivariate-GARCH Dynamic Conditional Correlation Model -- C Spillovers and lending during the Euro crisis - A linear regression analysis -- 3.4 A recursive contract model with spillover costs -- A Model -- 3.5 Discussion of model predictions -- A Empirical Validation of Model Predictions -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- 3.7 Appendix -- A Financial linkages across the euro area -- B Theoretical appendix -- C Descriptive statistics from database on loan announcements and disbursements -- D Empirical analysis -- E Spillovers and loan conditions -- F The effect of announcements on spillovers - Summary tables -- G The effect of announcements on spillovers - Country details
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Boonzaaier, Igor Quinton. "Die invloed van 'n historiese ontwikkelingspatroon op hedendaagse wetgewing en grondhervorming : die wet op landelike gebiede (Wet 9 van 1987) en sy historiese probleme." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52207.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2001.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Nobody can deny the need which prevails among black South Africans of gaining access to land. In South Africa, just like elsewhere, the land issue plays an equally important role to economic and political issues. However, the land issue is much more emotional, and has the potential to unleash forces which could impact negatively on the economy and the political situation. Bearing this in mind, the ANC-government placed the issue of land reform on the national agenda after assuming power in 1994. Within the broad framework of the program provision is made for previously disadvantaged people to be given access to agricultural land. However, the focus on new entrants to the agricultural sector diverts the attention somewhat from the fact that there are people and groupings who were also disadvantaged under apartheid, but who have had a degree of access to land. This study focuses on the 23 so-called Rural Areas which are scattered over four provinces (Western Cape, Northern Cape, Eastern Cape and the Free State) and which are administered in terms of the Rural Areas Act, Act 9 of 1987. Since the study is no more than an overview, a synopsis is given of contributing factors which relate to the origins of each of the areas. Of importance is the role which was played by missionary societies and others in establishing these communities. The mam focus of the study is the manner in which the Rural Areas were administered. Reference is made to relevant legislation since 1909, and specifically to Act 9 of 1987. The importance thereof lies in the fact that the existence and continued application of the Act has particular constitutional implications. Furthermore, the Minster of Land Affairs, who is responsible for the implementation of the land reform program, is the (unwilling) trustee of these areas. Apart from the fact that trusteeship recalls paternalism of years gone by, the South African reality also necessitated reflection on the existence of Act 9. The rest of the study discusses the consultation process undertaken by the department of Land Affairs with the communities concerned, and the writing of legislation to replace Act 9. The Transformation of Certain Rural Areas Act, Act 94 of 1998, will replace Act 9 when certain conditions mentioned therein, have been met. The Act will end trusteeship and ensure that the communities receive ownership of their land. This will be a movement towards the ideal of the land reform process of giving access to land to all inhabitants of the country.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Niemand kan die behoefte aan toegang tot grond ontken wat onder swart Suid- Afrikaners heers nie. Nes elders, speel die grondkwessie in Suid-Afrika 'n ewe belangrike rol as ekonomiese en politieke kwessies. Die grondkwessie is egter baie meer emosioneel, met die potensiaal om kragte los te laat wat nadelig op die ekonomie en politiek kan inwerk. Gedagtig hieraan het die ANC-regering na bewindsaanvaarding in 1994 grondhervorming op die nasionale agenda geplaas deur 'n grondhervormingsprogram van stapel te stuur. Binne die breë raamwerk van die program is onder andere ruimte geskep vir die verlening van toegang tot landbougrond aan voorheen benadeeldes. Dié klem op "nuwe toetreders" tot landbou trek egter 'n mens se aandag af van die feit dat daar ander persone en groeperinge bestaan wat ook deur apartheid benadeel is, maar wat wel 'n mate van toegang tot grond gehad het. Hiedie studie fokus op die 23 sogenaamde Landelike Gebiede wat oor vier provinsies (Wes-Kaap, Noord-Kaap, Oos-Kaap en Vrystaat) van die land versprei is, en wat ingevolge die Wet op Landelike Gebiede, Wet 9 van 1987, geadministreer word. Weens die oorsigtelike aard van die studie word slegs 'n sinopsis gegee van bydraende faktore wat relevant is tot die spesifieke ontstaansgeskiedenis van elk van die gebiede. Veral van belang hier is die rol wat sendinggenootskappe en andere gespeel het in die totstandkoming van gemeenskappe. Daar word in hoofsaak gekyk na die manier waarop die Landelike Gebiede met verloop van tyd geadministreer is. Hier word verwys na die relevante wetgewing sedert 1909, met spesifieke verwysing na Wet 9 van 1987. Die belang hiervan lê in die feit dat die voortbestaan en voortgesette toepassing van die Wet bepaalde grondwetlike implikasies inhou. Daarmee saam die feit dat die Minister van Grondsake, wat verantwoordelik IS vir die implementering van die grondhervormingsprogram, die (onwillige) trustee is van die Landelike Gebiede. Benewens die feit dat trusteeskap sterk herinner aan die paternalisme van die verlede, het die nuwe Suid-Afrikaanse werklikheid vereis dat herbesin word oor die voortbestaan van Wet 9. Die res van die studie bespreek die konsultasieproses van die departement van Grondsake met die betrokke gemeenskappe, en die skryf van wetgewing om Wet 9 te vervang. Die Wet op die Transformasie van Sekere Landelike Gebiede, Wet 94 van 1998 sal Wet 9 vervang wanneer aan sekere vereistes voldoen word. Die Wet het ten doelom trusteeskap te beëindig en te verseker dat die betrokke gemeenskappe seggenskap oor hul grond verkry. Sodoende sal nader beweeg word aan die ideaal van die grondhervormingsproses, naamlik die verskaffing van vrye toegang tot grond aan alle inwoners van die land.
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Porter, Stephen M. "The Samual Smith land grants a historical study of land ownership and use in southern West Virginia /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2005. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=538.

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Viedge, Bronwen Elizabeth. "A history of land tenure in the Herschel district, Transkei." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003808.

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A historical review of land tenure systems implemented in the Herschel district, Eastern Cape, South Africa and an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of each system in conjunction with international experience of land tenure provide guidelines as to what elements could be incorporated in the formulation of a new integrated land tenure system. These guidelines together with the information obtained from a questionnaire survey amongst the Herschel population provide the government of South Africa with a broad outline of an integrated land tenure system that could serve to link the former homelands to the land tenure system that currently operates in the rest of the country thereby removing one of the obstacles to rural development and land redistribution.
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Wisborg, Poul. "It is our land human rights and land tenure reform in Namaqualand, South Africa /." Ås : Noragric, Dept. of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2006. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/80145303.html.

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Wickstead, H. "Land division and identity in later prehistoric Dartmoor, south-west Britain : translocating tenure." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445203/.

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Tenure is an important aspect of relations involving people and material things. Archaeologists often evoke tenure but less often subject this concept to sustained examination. In this thesis I explore the subject of tenure. The root of the word tenure is the French verb 'tem'r' (to hold). It is thus concerned with possession, and is related to the concept of property. Dictionary definitions of tenure outline three main senses in which the word tenure is used: Firstly, tenure refers to the holding or possession of something, especially of property and land Secondly, it also means the duration, term or conditions on possession, and thus encompasses a greater range of relations than can be described by 'property' Thirdly, it is also possible to speak of 'getting tenure'---by which is meant the attainment of a permanent office, linked to achieving a certain personal status within a profession. At first sight this third sense seems very different to the first two. However it points to the history of a concept that is closely bound up with personhood. For example, the word 'property' derives from the Latin 'proprius' and French 'propiete'. The words property and propriety thus overlap indicating the historical connections between property and ideas of moral personhood ('self-possession'). 'Ownership', related to the German 'eigen', also refers to identity through its historical link with 'belonging'---the word was once used to describe blood ties between kin as well as possession of objects (Verdery & Humphrey, 2004a: 5). The concept of tenure is more complicated than it may at first appear, referring to many different sense and forms of possession simultaneously.
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McGregor, Russell Edward. "Answering the native question: the dispossession of the Aborigines of the Fitzroy District, West Kimberley, 1880-1905." Thesis, University of North Queensland, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/268851.

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Kakembo, Vincent. "A reconstruction of the history of land degradation in relation to land use change and land tenure in Peddie district, former Ciskei." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005523.

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A history of land degradation is reconstructed in a part of the dividing ridge between the Great Fish and Keiskamma rivers, in Peddie District, former Ciskei. The study entails a comparative investigation of the progressive changes in land use, vegetation and soil erosion in three tenure units, namely: former commercial farms, traditional and betterment villages. Analysis of the sequential aerial photography of the area for 1938,1954, 1965, 1975 and 1988 is employed. This is backed by groundtruthing exercises. Data thus obtained are quantified, and linkages between degradation, anthropogenic and physical factors are derived using PC ARC/INFO GIS. Differences in land tenure systems emerge as the main controlling factor to variations in land degradation. Confinement of vegetation diminution and erosion to traditional and betterment villages is observed at all dates. Scantily vegetated surfaces and riparian vegetation removal are a characteristic feature of both areas throughout the study period. 'Betterment,' introduced in the early 1960s to curb land degradation is, instead observed to exacerbate it, particularly soil erosion. Trends in land use change are characterised by the abandonment of cultivated land, which is noted to coincide with a sharp rise in population. Erosion intensification into severe forms particularly between 1965 and 1975, coincident with a period of extreme rainfall events, emerges as the most significant degradation trend. A close spatial correlation between abandoned cultivated land and intricate gullies is identified. So is the case between grazing land and severe sheet erosion. Within the grazing lands, an examination of erosion and categories of vegetated surfaces reveals that erosion occurs predominantly on the scanty vegetation category. Such erosion-vegetation interaction largely explains the non-recovery of the scanty vegetation category, even during periods of intense rainfall. Extensive channel degradation is evident along stream courses with scanty riparian vegetation. Physical factors are noted to have a significant bearing on erosion. The high prevalence of erosion on the Ecca group of rocks confirms its erosion-prone nature. Pockets of colluvium and alluvium accumulation in the steep bottomlands are identified as the sites of the most severe gully erosion. Field surveys at some of the sites indicate that a dolerite sill through the area forms a boundary of colluvium accumulation and the upslope limit to gully incision. That these sites are recognised as formerly cultivated land, portrays the interaction between physical and anthropogenic variables with regard to inducing degradation in the area.
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Stephen, Michael F. "Between tradition and modernity : politics and citizenship of the Swazi land community." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296108.

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Bulfeta, Getachew, and International Livestock Centre for Africa., eds. Land and tree tenure in humid West Africa: A bibliography. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: International Livestock Centre for Africa, 1987.

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Mortimore, Michael. History and evolution of land tenure and administration in West Africa. London: International Institute for Environment and Development, 1997.

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Richard, Kuba, and Lentz Carola, eds. Land and the politics of belonging in West Africa. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

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Lawry, Steven W. Tenure policy and natural resource management in Sahelian West Africa. Madison, Wis: Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 1989.

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Lawry, Steven W. Tenure policy and natural resource management in Sahelian West Africa. Madison, Wis: Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989.

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Mortimore, Michael. History and evolution of land tenure and administration in West Africa. London: International Institute for Environment and Development, 1997.

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R, Lane Charles, ed. Custodians of the commons: Pastoral land tenure in East and West Africa. London: Earthscan Publications, 1998.

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Leonard, Rebeca. Land tenure lexicon: A glossary of terms from English and French speaking West Africa. London: International Institute for Environment and Development, 2000.

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Lorenzo, Cotula, Toulmin Camilla, Ahiadeke Clement, International Institute for Environment and Development., and Drylands Programme, eds. Till to tiller: International migration, remittances and land rights in West Africa. London: International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004.

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Programme, Drylands, ed. Land tenure and resource access in West Africa: Issues and opportunities for the next twenty five years. London: International Institute for Environment and Development Drylands Programme, 1999.

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Deininger, Klaus, Songqing Jin, and Vandana Yadav. "Does Sharecropping Affect Long-term Investment? Evidence from West Bengal’s Tenancy Reforms." In Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa, 54–79. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137343819_3.

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Palmer, Robin. "1. General - Land Tenure." In Contested Lands in Southern and Eastern Africa, 7–38. UK and Ireland: Oxfam Publishing, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.3362/9780855986834.001.

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Bayer, Charl-Thom. "Land Governance and Land Reform in Southern Africa." In Land Tenure Challenges in Africa, 47–74. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82852-3_3.

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Moyo, Moses. "Rethinking Land Use After Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe: A Clustering Approach." In Land Tenure Challenges in Africa, 135–59. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82852-3_7.

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Chitonge, Horman, and Ross Harvey. "Land Tenure Challenges in Africa: Current and Emerging Issues." In Land Tenure Challenges in Africa, 325–39. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82852-3_16.

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Odendaal, Willem, and Paul Hebinck. "A Socio-legal Analysis of the Complexity of Litigating Ancestral Land Rights." In Land Tenure Challenges in Africa, 247–65. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82852-3_12.

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Beinart, William. "What Can South Africa Learn from Other African Countries in Respect of Upgrading Customary Systems of Land Tenure?" In Land Tenure Challenges in Africa, 27–45. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82852-3_2.

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Mandhu, Fatima, and Anthony Mushinge. "Theories Guiding Land Reforms Aimed at Promoting Tenure Security: A Comparative Analysis of Zambia and Ethiopia." In Land Tenure Challenges in Africa, 161–80. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82852-3_8.

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Balgley, David, and Karen Rignall. "Land Tenure in Morocco: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Struggles." In Land Tenure Challenges in Africa, 183–202. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82852-3_9.

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Yankson, Eric. "Land Governance as a Restitutive Mechanism for Asserting Ownership and Tenure Rights in Postcolonial Contexts: Insights from Namibia and Ghana." In Land Tenure Challenges in Africa, 75–97. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82852-3_4.

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Conference papers on the topic "Land tenure – Africa, West"

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Foody, Giles M., and Doreen S. Boyd. "Using volunteered data in land cover map validation: Mapping tropical forests across West Africa." In IGARSS 2012 - 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/igarss.2012.6352675.

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Forkuor, Gerald, Tobias Landmann, Christopher Conrad, and Stefan Dech. "Agricultural land use mapping in the sudanian savanna of West Africa: Current status and future possibilities." In IGARSS 2012 - 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/igarss.2012.6352698.

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Mutmainnah, Mutmainnah, Alfian Alfian, and Fitria Djafar. "A Multi-stakeholder Forum as An Approach to Address Partnership and Land Tenure Conflicts in North Konawe District, Southeast Sulawesi." In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Rural Socio-Economic Transformation: Agrarian, Ecology, Communication and Community Development Perspectives, RUSET 2021, 14-15 September 2021, Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. EAI, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.14-9-2021.2317181.

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Landmann, Tobias, C. Herty, S. Dech, M. Schmidt, Stefan Dech, M. Schmidt, and Paul Vlek. "Land cover change analysis within the GLOWA Volta basin in West Africa using 30-meter Landsat data snapshots." In 2007 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/igarss.2007.4424058.

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Raxworthy, Julian. "A Story of Two Titles: The Torrens System and Parcel 702, Adelaide." In The 38th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. online: SAHANZ, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55939/a4023p41ye.

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Although the catchment - the topographically defined edge where “all rainfall… drains naturally … or is directed to by human intervention towards … the catchment outlet [which may be immediately a creek, but ultimately is the ocean] ” – is the most significant boundary for ecological function of landscapes, Raxworthy has argued that property boundaries and land tenure make it such that “landscape pattern is as much an emergent quality of capitalism as it is propensity[y] of [the landscape.” Despite its role in establishing the pattern of the landscape, landscape architects tend to treat property boundary as a given that is almost invisible when every act they do reacts to it in some way, necessitating, Raxworthy continues, a theorising of land tenure in landscape architecture. I hope to continue Raxworthy’s project in this paper by examining the celebrated model of contemporary land titling – the Torrens System – in its place of origination – Adelaide – and explore the relationship between landscape, people and land titling. Two of the things Adelaide is most famous for might seem complimentary but are actually contradictory: the Torrens System of title (which Atkinson, quoting Greg Taylor, calls ““South Australia’s most successful intellectual export.”” ) and the first successful determination Native Title in a capital city of Australia. Developed by Robert Richard Torrens, the “Real Property Act (1858)” (which subsequently became known as Torrens Title, or the Torrens System) and “simplify[ied] the Laws relating to the transfer and encumbrance of freehold and other interests in land,” by creating a centralised registration system of actual land ownership, rather than simply deeds, removing potentials for contestation. In the developing world the Torrens System has been a very important tool in helping secure land title in post-colonial countries “[becoming] the norm in both Anglophone and Francophone colonial Africa,” yet, as Leonie Kelleher has argued, the Torrens System effectively eclipsed the previous sovereignty of Aboriginal people in the very place of its creation.
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Ziadat, Feras, Mira Haddad, Theib Oweis, and Akmal Akramkhanov. "Identification of potential areas for out-scaling sustainable land management options in West Asia, North Africa, and Central Asia." In 2015 Fourth International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics. IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/agro-geoinformatics.2015.7248130.

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Barbosa, Humberto A., T. V. Lakshmi Kuma, and Aydin G. Ertürk. "Using the Satellite‐Derived NDVI‐OLR Feedbacks over West Sahel Africa to Assess Land‐Atmosphere Responses to Environmental Change." In CURRENT PROBLEMS IN ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION (IRS 2008): Proceedings of the International Radiation Symposium (IRC/IAMAS). American Institute of Physics, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3116990.

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Machwitz, Miriam, Tobias Landmann, Christopher Conrad, Anna Cord, and Stefan Dech. "Land Cover Analysis on Sub-Continental Scale: FAO LCCS Standard with 250 Meter MODIS Satellite Observations in West Africa." In IGARSS 2008 - 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/igarss.2008.4780024.

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Schoeman, I. M. "Land use and transportation integration within the greater area of the North West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa: problems, prospects and solutions." In URBAN TRANSPORT 2014. Southampton, UK: WIT Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/ut140501.

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Landmann, Tobias, M. Machwitz, Quang Bao Le, L. T. Desta, P. Vlek, Stefan Dech, and M. Schmidt. "A Land Cover Change Synthesis Study for the GLOWA Volta Basin in West Africa using Time Trajectory Satellite Observations and Cellular Automata Models." In IGARSS 2008 - 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/igarss.2008.4779429.

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Reports on the topic "Land tenure – Africa, West"

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Troell, Jessica, and Stephanie Keene. Legal recognition of customary water tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa: unpacking the land-water nexus. International Water Management Institute (IWMI), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5337/2022.215.

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J., Clerc. Unpacking tenure security: Development of a conceptual framework and application to the case of oil palm expansion on customary land in Kapuas Hulu district, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.17528/cifor/004012.

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Galudra, G., R. Nurhawan, A. Aprianto, Y. Sunarya, and Engkus. The last remnants of mega biodiversity in West Java and Banten: an in-depth exploration of RaTA (Rapid Land Tenure Assessment) in Mount Halimun-Salak National Park, Indonesia ICRAF Working paper no. 69. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5716/wp15965.pdf.

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Tenure and Investment in West Africa: Palm Oil and Improving Practice. Rights and Resources Initiative, February 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.53892/iizb2221.

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Disputes over land and resource rights create operational and reputational risks through delays, rising costs, and curtailed access to finance and markets. This paper looks closely at recent disputes in West Africa and investigates their impact on investment in land-based assets across the sub-region. A pattern of dispute, financial loss, and reputational damage has pushed some palm oil companies to enhance their standards and practice around tenure and local engagement. In the process, the sector as a whole has become more aware of the risks posed in particular by governments with low capacity on tenure and local engagement, and therefore more discerning about where they invest.
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Tenure and Investment in Africa: Synthesis Report. Rights and Resources Initiative, February 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.53892/sqji4022.

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This synthesis of our findings from an investigation of tenure risk in East, West, and Southern Africa, shows that a majority of tenure disputes are caused by the displacement of local peoples, indicating that companies and investors are not doing enough to understand competing claims to the land they acquire or lease. This failure in diligence is particularly noteworthy given that a majority of the disputes analyzed had materially significant impacts: indeed, a higher proportion of projects in Africa are financially impacted by tenure dispute than any other region in the world.
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Who Owns the Land in Africa? Formal recognition of community-based land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa. Rights and Resources Initiative, October 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.53892/wlvi2246.

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The question of who owns the world’s lands and natural resources is a major source of contestation around the globe, affecting prospects for rural economic development, human rights and dignity, cultural survival, political stability, conservation of the environment, and efforts to combat climate change. To inform advocacy and action on community land rights, RRI has published Who Owns the World’s Land? A global baseline of formally recognized indigenous & community land rights (“the global baseline”), which identifies the amount of land national governments have formally recognized as owned or controlled by Indigenous Peoples and local communities across 64 countries constituting 82 percent of global land area. The report focuses on community-based tenure regimes, which include any system where formal rights to own or manage land or terrestrial resources are held at the community level, including lands held under customary tenure regimes. This brief summarizes findings on community ownership and control of lands in the 19 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that were included in the global baseline.
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Tenure and Investment in Africa: Comparative Analysis of Key Trends and Contextual Factors. Rights and Resources Initiative, February 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.53892/bqwl4051.

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An empirical picture of the causes and effects of tenure-related disputes between private sector actors and local peoples across different sub-regions and countries in Africa, this analysis details statistical evidence of key trends in tenure-related disputes, including their causes as well as the prevalence of violence, work stoppages, and regulatory interventions. These key trends are based on an analysis of 32 case studies evenly spread across East, West, and Southern Africa. These “new cases” are compared with a global average derived from the IAN Case Study Database’s 281 cases outside Africa. In addition, we have completed a temporal analysis of some of the key trends to determine how conflicts have changed over the last few decades. The high-level view provided here is complemented by separate examinations of the three African sub-regions, each of which profiles the case studies in depth and provides a more nuanced view of how tenure-related disputes develop and how they can be resolved.
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Protecting Liberia’s Forest: Conservation for People and Planet. Rights and Resources Initiative, February 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.53892/ldvb6070.

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Liberia holds some of the last remaining, intact forests in West Africa and so reducing deforestation quickly and efficiently would be important in global climate change mitigation efforts. This paper aims to help by providing a rough sense of how many people might be affected by the protected area plans. It then examines evidence on compensation costs to give a sense of the budget that might be required if principles of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) are respected per Liberia’s new Land Rights Policy.
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