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

open access: yesLand, 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building on Custom: Land Tenure Policy and Economic Development in Ghana [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This Note addresses the intersection of customary and statutory land law in the land tenure policy of Ghana. It argues that improving the current land tenure policy demands integration of customary land law and customary authorities into the statutory ...
Blocher, Joseph
core   +1 more source

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

open access: yesLand
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   +1 more source

Differences in production, carbon stocks and biodiversity outcomes of land tenure regimes in the Argentine Dry Chaco

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2017
Rising global demand for agricultural products results in agricultural expansion and intensification, with substantial environmental trade-offs. The South American Dry Chaco contains some of the fastest expanding agricultural frontiers worldwide, and ...
Sofía Marinaro   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Land tenure insecurity, vulnerability to climate-induced disaster and opportunities for redress in southern Africa

open access: yesJàmbá, 2013
Land tenure is an important variable impacting on vulnerability to climate-related disaster. Land tenure insecurity is widespread in southern Africa and manifests itself in a number of ways that accentuate vulnerability to climate change impacts ...
Tigere Chagutah
doaj   +1 more source

Customary Land Tenure Values in Nagari Kayu Tanam, West Sumatra

open access: yesCosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
The transfer of rights or transactions does not exist in customary land tenure because it is a common property; thus, it can never be transferred to another party.
Gamal Abdul Nasir, Ade Saptomo
doaj   +1 more source

Threats of Statutory Tenure on Customary Land in Zambia: Evidence from Chamuka Chiefdom in Chisamba District

open access: yesAfrican Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020
This chapter investigated threats of statutory tenure on customary land. The study was primarily qualitative in nature and adopted a case study approach.
Anthony Mushinge   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Land Tenure, Loans, and Farmers’ Cropland Conservation Behavior: Evidence from Rural Northwest China

open access: yesLand
The pivotal role of farmers’ cropland conservation behavior (CCB) in advancing green agricultural practices is well-recognized. This paper underscores the critical role of stable land tenure in enhancing farmers’ CCB, exemplified by the practice of mulch
Guoren Long, Xiaoyan Zhou, Jun Li
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of Land Tenure Systems and its Relationship with Productivity in the Agricultural Sector in Ghana

open access: yesActa Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2015
The paper assesses the effects of Land Tenure systems and its relationship with agricultural productivity in Ghana. It discusses the complex nature of the Tenure systems and some of the reforms the country has done over the years and standard of living ...
Libor Grega   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rural Migrant Workers in Urban China: Does Rural Land Still Matter?

open access: yesLand
The purpose of this study is to test the response of rural–urban migration to land endowment while recognizing the heterogeneity of land tenure security perceptions.
Huiguang Chen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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