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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
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Bridging the Semantic Gap between Land Tenure and EO Data: Conceptual and Methodological Underpinnings for a Geospatially Informed Analysis

Remote Sensing, 2020
When spatial land tenure relations are not available, the only effective alternative data method is to rely on the agricultural census at the regional or national scale, based on household surveys and a participatory mapping at the local scale.
Cheonjae Lee, Walter Timo de Vries
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Governability of Customary Land Tenure Institutions: insights from Odupongkpehe Customary Area in Ghana

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2022
Context and background The role of customary land tenure institutions in land governance is immeasurable. Notwithstanding the enormous role of customary land tenure institutions in local land governance, they are fraught with problems.
Anthony Acquah Mensah
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Spatial relationships between farmlands and hydrographies in agrarian landscapes

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences
Context and background Climate induced disasters, human involvement, and changes in natural cycles have all had a profound, complex, and difficult-to-understand impact on rural landscapes, especially agrarian landscapes. Most of these negative impacts
Marcel Loyd MINKA
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Enhancing the adaptive capacities of agrarian landscapes through participatory sketch mapping and spatial perceptions on landmark’s distribution and disparities

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences
Agrarian Landscapes are the natural basis for the survival and development of people in rural communities. Participatory sketch mapping refers to the collection of data (spatial, land use and land rights data) through the hand map drawing of study areas
Marcel Loyd MINKA
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Sub-regional efforts to achieve gender equality in land ownership

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences
Context and background A typical character of land tenure or property systems in sub-Saharan Africa is that the systems exclude women (implicitly and explicitly) (Chigbu, 2019).
Marcel Loyd MINKA
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On Legislation and Law Enforcement Practice Monitoring in the Russian Federation

Vestnik Omskoj Ûridičeskoj Akademii, 2012
The results of legislation and law enforcement practice monitoring in the Russian Federation are analyzed in the article.
Cherkasov R. V., Kassian R. G.
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Process and mechanism of land acquisition and land tenure security in informal settlements in Nairobi

Japan Architectural Review, 2021
Urbanization and informal settlements are a prevalent phenomenon in most African regions; they play an important role in the real estate market and the housing supply.
Haruka Ono, Tetsuo Kidokoro
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Technical guidelines for participatory village mapping exercise [PDF]

, 2018
This document is meant for researchers, field research supervisors and enumerators who would like guidance on developing maps with the participation of local communities.
Atmadja, Stibniati Soeria, Boissière, Manuel, Duchelle, Amy E., Simonet, Gabriela   +3 more
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The aims and trends of the sustainable land tenure formation in Ukraine: the spatial aspect

Geodesy and Cartography, 2021
The spatial aspect of the challenge of the sustainable land tenure formation has been scrutinized in the article. There is a set of unresolved issues at the point where interests of land owners, land users and the government clash, that witnesses the ...
Mykola Malashevskyi, Olena Malashevska
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