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Differentiations in Women’s Land Tenure Experiences: Implications for Women’s Land Access and Tenure Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Land, 2019
Most literature on land tenure in sub-Saharan Africa has presented women as a homogenous group. This study uses evidence from Ghana, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe to show that women have differentiated problems, needs, and statuses in their quest for land access
Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, Gaynor Paradza, Walter Dachaga   +2 more
doaj   +4 more sources

The importance of different land tenure systems for farmers’ response to climate change: A systematic review

Climate Risk Management, 2022
Climate change increasingly affects agricultural systems, making it necessary for farmers to adapt to changing climatic conditions. An important element shaping farmers’ adaptation decisions and their vulnerability is their respective land tenure system.
Lisa Murken, Christoph Gornott
doaj   +2 more sources

Effect of land tenure security on agricultural productivity among small scale farmers in Kenya: a conditional mixed processes analysis

Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2022
Security of land tenure among rural households is an integral part in achieving high agricultural productivity. However, there is limited information on the nexus between land tenure security, credit access and agricultural productivity.
Joseph Jabu Mbudzya, Eric Obedy Gido, George Owuor   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Land Investment: Evidence from National Plot-Level Data in Rural China

Land
The linkage between land tenure security and land quality improvement investment is crucial given that the land tenure security system is a widely applied policy tool for the protection of cultivation land in developing countries.
Xiaolong Sun, Jinmin Wang, Fangping Rao
doaj   +2 more sources

Land Tenure Disputes and Resolution Mechanisms: Evidence from Peri-Urban and Nearby Rural Kebeles of Debre Markos Town, Ethiopia

Land, 2021
In Ethiopia, like in other developing countries, land disputes are critical problems both in peri-urban and rural areas. Handling such disputes requires scientific and evidence-based interventions.
Sayeh Kassaw Agegnehu, Tilahun Dires, Worku Nega, Reinfried Mansberger   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Land Tenure Governance in the First Decades of the 21st Century: Progress, Challenges, and Lessons from 18 Countries

Land
This article is based on a review of the governance of land tenure in 18 countries—16 in Africa and 2 in Asia—carried out from 2021 to 2023. It uses international guidelines on land policy and tenure governance as benchmarks to assess progress in each ...
Marc Wegerif, Mohamed Coulibaly, Hubert Ouedraogo   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The ‘new’ African customary land tenure. Characteristic, features and policy implications of a new paradigm

Land Use Policy, 2019
Most of the land in sub-Saharan Africa is governed under various forms of customary tenure. Over the past three decades a quiet paradigm shift has been taking place transforming the way such landl is governed.
Admos Chimhowu
exaly   +2 more sources

CUSTOMARY VERSUS CONVENTIONAL LAND ADMINISTRATION SYSTEMS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2022
Context and background: The essential emerging reality from the statutory-versus-customary tenure debate is that both customary and statutory tenure systems have faults and good merits.
Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, Ernest Uwayezu, Mutjinde Katjuia   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Resolving land tenure security is essential to deliver forest restoration

Communications Earth & Environment, 2023
Tropical countries are making ambitious commitments to Forest Landscape Restoration with the aim of locking up carbon, conserving biodiversity and benefiting local livelihoods.
O. Rakotonarivo, Mirindra Rakotoarisoa, H. M. Rajaonarivelo, Stefana Raharijaona, Julia P. G. Jones, N. Hockley   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rethinking the Impact of Land Certification on Tenure Security, Land Disputes, Land Management, and Agricultural Production: Insights from South Wello, Ethiopia

Land, 2023
Land is a precious resource in the Ethiopian highlands, where the entire agricultural system depends on rain-fed system. The resource faces multiple interconnected environmental and socioeconomic challenges.
Bichaye Tesfaye, M. Lengoiboni, J. Zevenbergen, B. Simane   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source