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Determinants of land tenure formalization under customary and statutory land tenure systems in Tanzania

SN Business & Economics, 2023
Haji Athumani Msangi, Hamza Moluh Njoya, Katharina Lohr   +2 more
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Land tenure and the management of land and trees: the case of customary land tenure areas of Ghana

Environment and Development Economics, 2003
This study explores the effects of land tenure institutions on land use and management using household date from cocoa growing areas of Ghana. Various land tenure institutions with different land rights coexist in our sites, such as allocated family land, inherited land, appropriated village land, and land received as gift.
Keijiro Otsuka, Agnes R. Quisumbing, Ellen Payongayong, J.B. Aidoo   +3 more
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Land, Rights, and Tenure Insecurity on Customary Land in Zambia

2020
Land is a key asset in the lives of village communities in Zambia. It is thus at the centre of their livelihood strategies as it provides social, economic, and financial benefits to these communities. The paradox though is that despite acknowledging its importance in the lives of village communities, tenure on this land is poorly protected by the state
Ephraim Kabunda Munshifwa, Niraj Jain, Roy Alexander Chileshe, Anthony Mushinge   +3 more
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Vernacular Land Markets and the Changing Face of Customary Land Tenure in Africa

Forum for Development Studies, 2005
Contemporary discourse on land in Africa suggest that customary or 'communal' tenure is the only check against freehold market-induced landlessness among the poor in the African countryside, and that 'pro-poor' land policy should therefore strengthen customary rights to land.
Chimhowu, Admos; id_orcid 0000-0003-2274-4679, Woodhouse, Phil   +1 more
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Customary land tenure and the new land policy in Malawi

Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 2004
Malawi occupies an area of 118 484 square kilometres, of which 94 076 are arable land. More than 80 per cent of the country's population, estimated at nearly 11 million, depends on agriculture for its livelihood. In addition to being an important economic resource, land is valued as a basis for social security.
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The Land Tenure System Under the Customary Law

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
The paper seeks to examine landholding system under customary law. It shall explore the intricacies of the land tenure system under the Nigerian customary law concerning the provision of the Land Use Act. In spite of the confusion the Land Use Act brought on the customary land tenure system such that there was uncertainty as to the existence or ...
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Customary Land-Tenure and the Poor: A Study of Jharkhand and Meghalaya

Social Change, 2020
For most people living in rural India having access and control over land is crucial for their livelihood, more so in the case of tribals. This article analyses the nature of the customary land-tenure system in some districts of Jharkhand and Meghalaya and their impact on livelihood patterns, food security and poverty.
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Land pressure and customary tenure: Cropland allocations in Swaziland

Natural Resources Forum, 2007
Abstract This paper examines the effects of growing land pressure on the distribution and quality of cropland allocations on customary tenured land (CTL) in Swaziland. Within the wider Sub‐Saharan context, the reform of indigenous tenure systems is now generally seen as a process of adaptation rather than replacement. The legal recognition of (existing
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Conflicts over land and threats to customary tenure in Africa

African Affairs, 2013
Issues swirling around land across Africa have never been so central to key social and politicaleconomic dynamics as they are at the present time. The first part of the paper briefly reviews the construction of customary tenure and the historical phases of administrative interventions into land tenure, and considers their heritage in contemporary ...
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Land Law and the Transformation of Customary Tenure: The Mbeere Case

Journal of African Law, 1976
The Mbeere of Central Kenya have recently been the focus of a programme of land adjudication and registration. Since the early 1960s when the Mbeere anticipated that they too would undergo the land reform process that had been applied elsewhere in Kenya, much of their attention has been riveted to the question of land tenure change.
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