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Institutional Frameworks, Policies, and Land Data: Insights from Monitoring Land Governance and Tenure Security in the Context of Sustainable Development Goals in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia

Land
Within the sustainable development goals (SDGs) framework, access to land, its governance, and tenure security play pivotal roles in fostering inclusive and sustainable development.
R. Ndugwa, Clinton Kubondo Omusula
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Governance, Land and Development [PDF]

open access: possibleDevelopment, 2011
Gender and Green Governance: The Political Economy of Women’s Presence Within and Beyond Community Forestry by Bina Agarwal, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN: 97801995696687 Rising Global Interest in Farmland: Can it yield sustainable and equitable benefits?
Giulia Frova, Wendy Harcourt
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Monitoring land governance: Understanding roots and shoots

, 2020
Despite a growing interest among land use policymakers to identify the indicators that measure changes in land tenure systems, little consensus exists about what framework can functionally analyze land tenure systems, and how it should be developed.
H. Azadi
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Land Governance and Environmental Management in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region

Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy
The importance of governance arrangements for access, use and control of land and resources is being increasingly recognized by international institutions.
Robert Home
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Key challenges to advancing land tenure security through land governance in Malawi: Impact of land reform processes on implementation efforts

, 2020
Malawi embarked on a long and arduous journey of adopting comprehensive and transformative land reforms from the mid-1990s. These reforms seek to promote equitable land access, tenure security and efficient land use. Land reform, however, is replete with
Janet Chikaya-Banda, Davie Chilonga
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African youths; the forgotten category in land governance. A case study of post-conflict Acholi Region, Northern Uganda

, 2020
This paper demonstrates how war may significantly enhance the authority of male youth to make claims on land, at the expense of the elders and customary authority.
D. Kobusingye
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The politics of legal pluralism in the shaping of spatial power in Myanmar’s land governance

Journal of Peasant Studies, 2019
Following the National League for Democracy’s landslide victory in the 2015 national election, Myanmar embarked on a series of legal and political transitions. This paper highlights parallel processes alongside such transitions.
Diana Suhardiman   +2 more
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Sugarcoating the bitter pill: compensation, land governance, and opposition to land expropriation in China

, 2020
China's rapid urbanization has been fueled by dispossession and subsequent commodification of villagers' land. We use interviews and an original survey of land-losing villagers to examine factors that influence their opposition to land expropriation.
Meina Cai   +3 more
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The contested terrain of land governance reform in Myanmar

Critical Asian studies (Print), 2019
State control of land plays a critical role in producing land dispossession throughout the Global South. In Myanmar, the state’s approach towards territorial expansion has driven the country’s system of land governance, resulting in widespread and ...
Diana Suhardiman   +2 more
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Land governance for extractivism and capitalist farming in Africa: An overview

Land Use Policy, 2019
The paper outlines the conceptual and theoretical foundation for the contributions in this special issue. After unpacking land-governance, the core theme of this issue, the paper reviews theoretical work in the area of agrarian political economy, which ...
J. Ayelazuno
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