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2023
Abstract At the start of the twenty-first century, rural communities and the struggles over their lands are back on the global development and research agenda. This chapter historicizes processes of land-rights commodification and related transformations and conflicts in rural communities.
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Abstract At the start of the twenty-first century, rural communities and the struggles over their lands are back on the global development and research agenda. This chapter historicizes processes of land-rights commodification and related transformations and conflicts in rural communities.
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Land Rights, Land Reform, Land Improvement
1984Plans to increase agricultural productions have two sides: the technical, which covers the improvement of water supplies and the adoption of high-yielding varieties of crop and the fertilizers, pesticides, and so on, on which the high yields depend, and the legal, that is the rules determining the cultivator’s access to the land.
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2020
This chapter considers property in land. Property rights in land, compared to property rights in chattels, are not very ‘paradigmatic’ of property rights. Rights in land are much more varied than rights in chattels or most kinds of intangible property. Because of that it is difficult, both historically and theoretically, to identify what ‘ownership’ of
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This chapter considers property in land. Property rights in land, compared to property rights in chattels, are not very ‘paradigmatic’ of property rights. Rights in land are much more varied than rights in chattels or most kinds of intangible property. Because of that it is difficult, both historically and theoretically, to identify what ‘ownership’ of
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Land Rights as Proprietary Rights
2016This chapter examines how human rights law has sought to addresses indigenous peoples' land claims through two angles: first under the banner of proprietary rights and second by dealing with the past through the notion of reparation and restitution. Even though, under international law, provisions concerning property rights do not specifically focus on
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Securing land rights for women
Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2010Abstract This collection of papers on Securing Women's Land Rights presents five articles relating to eastern Africa. Four of these illustrate practical approaches to securing land rights for women in distinct situations: law-making for women's land rights (Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda); land tenure reform in practice (Rwanda); women's rights under ...
Daley, Elizabeth, Englert, Birgit
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Indonesian Land Rights and Development
2014Indonesia’s traditional land tenure system, called adat, satisfied the needs of many generations, but did not provide certainty or formal legal relationships conducive to development. The post-independence government has sought to mold the existing system into a more modern form that would better aid its development and has at the same time, sought to ...
Gold, Martin E., Zuckerman, Russell B.
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Property Rights, Land Rights, and Environmental Rights
1996Abstract Philosophers, lawyers, and politicians have justified the existence and protection of private individual property almost as often and as vehemently as they have criticized it. The justification of private property was discussed by the Greek philosophers and the classical Roman lawyers, but in a fundamental sense this debate ...
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2007
Introduction It was not until the latter part of the twentieth century that efforts were made to seriously consider land claims of indigenous peoples and to work towards their resolution. During the 1996 Commission Drafting Group, a representative of the indigenous communities of the Pacific expressed the general position of indigenous peoples ...
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Introduction It was not until the latter part of the twentieth century that efforts were made to seriously consider land claims of indigenous peoples and to work towards their resolution. During the 1996 Commission Drafting Group, a representative of the indigenous communities of the Pacific expressed the general position of indigenous peoples ...
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Women’s Land Rights in Zimbabwe
Issue, 1994This paper focuses on the issue of human rights with respect to women’s land rights in Zimbabwe. The concept of human rights is particularly pertinent because of the debates on land reform and the activities of the land Commission exploring possibilities for the reform of land use in Zimbabwe.
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