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An Evaluation of the National Program of Systematic Land Registration in Romania Using the Fit for Purpose Spatial Framework Principles

Land, 2022
The National Program of Systematic Land Registration aims to register all land property in Romania by 2023. The goal has proven difficult to achieve, as by June 2022 only 4% of the localities in the country were completed.
Vlad Păunescu, Divyani Kohli, Alexandru-Iulian Iliescu, Mircea-Emil Nap, Elemer-Emanuel Șuba, Tudor Sălăgean   +5 more
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Fit-For-Purpose Applications in Colombia: Defining Land Boundary Conflicts between Indigenous Sikuani and Neighbouring Settler Farmers

Land, 2021
One of the most difficult types of land-related conflict is that between Indigenous peoples and third parties, such as settler farmers or companies looking for new opportunities who are encroaching on Indigenous communal lands.
Laura Becerra, Mathilde Molendijk, Nicolas Porras, Piet Spijkers, Bastiaan Reydon, Javier Morales   +5 more
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Geospatial Tool and Geocloud Platform Innovations: A Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration Assessment

Land, 2021
The well-recognized and extensive task of mapping unrecorded land rights across sub-Saharan Africa demands innovative solutions. In response, the consortia of “its4land”, a European Commission Horizon 2020 project, developed, adapted, and tested ...
Mila Koeva, Mohammed Imaduddin Humayun, Christian Timm, Claudia Stöcker, Sophie Crommelinck, Malumbo Chipofya, Rohan Bennett, Jaap Zevenbergen   +7 more
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The Amazon Forest Preservation by Clarifying Property Rights and Potential Conflicts: How Experiments Using Fit-for-Purpose Can Help

Land, 2021
The burning and the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon forest, which has been recently highlighted by the international press and occurs mostly on public or undesignated land, calls for an in-depth examination. This has traditionally been the main way
Bastiaan Reydon, Mathilde Molendijk, Nicolas Porras, Gabriel Siqueira   +3 more
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Evaluating Some Major Assumptions in Land Registration: Insights from Ghana’s Context of Land Tenure and Registration

Land, 2020
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 ...
Zaid Abubakari, Christine Richter, Jaap Zevenbergen   +2 more
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An Overview of Frontier Technologies for Land Tenure: How to Avoid the Hype and Focus on What Matters

Land, 2022
Secure land and natural resource rights are key ingredients for rural transformation, social inclusion, and the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Simon Hull, Harold Liversage, Maria Paola Rizzo, Vladimir Evtimov   +3 more
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Experiences and Development Impacts of Securing Land Rights at Scale in Developing Countries: Case Studies of China and Vietnam

Land, 2021
This paper reviews experiences and development impacts of a selected number of developing countries in Asia and Africa that have used emerging land registration approaches to rapidly secure land rights at scale.
Frank F. K. Byamugisha
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Fit-for-purpose land administration: lessons from urban and rural Ethiopia [PDF]

Survey Review, 2015
Lessons for designing fit-for-purpose land administration and land management activities, where the stated purposes are poverty alleviation, food security, and good governance, are provided. Contemporary developments from urban and rural Ethiopia provide the empirical basis: data is synthesised from fieldwork and other research activities undertaken ...
Bennett, R. M., Alemie, B. K.
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Introducing Collaborative Governance in Decentralized Land Administration and Management in South Africa: District Land Reform Committees Viewed through a ‘System of Innovation’ Lens

Land, 2021
A Fit-for-Purpose (FFP) land administration system strives for a more flexible, inclusive, participatory, affordable, reliable, realistic, and scalable approach to land administration and management in developing countries.
Evert Waeterloos
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Fit-for-Purpose, Private-Sector Led Land Regularization and Financing of Informal Settlements in Brazil

Land, 2021
This paper aims to analyze the financial and operational approach to land regularization and financing used in Brazil by an innovative private social enterprise in order to demonstrate that the approach widens the concept fit-for-purpose land ...
Malcolm Childress, Selina Carter, Edgard Barki   +2 more
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