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Individual Land Tenure and the Challenges of Sustainable Land Use and Management in a Semi-arid Region of China Individual Land Tenure and the Challenges of Sustainable Land Use and Management in a Semi-arid Region of China

Sustentabilidade em Debate, 2010
China’s farmland tenure, characterised by a household responsibility system (HRS) and collective landownership, has contributed to the continuation of poverty and natural resource deterioration in semiarid regions.
Yongjun Zhao
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Shifting perspectives: exploring land tenure transformation through six community-based solar energy projects in the global south (Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Namibia, Indonesia, and Peru)

Energy, Sustainability and Society
Background Sustainable development is not possible without sustainable energy, and while renewable energy minigrid and microgrid systems are regarded as a promising solution for achieving energy transition and supporting rural development in the global ...
Bouchra El Houda Lamhamedi, Walter Timo de Vries   +1 more
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Hornby D, Kingwill R, Royston L and Cousins B (eds) Untitled: Securing Land Tenure in Urban and Rural South Africa (2017 University of KwaZulu-Natal Press)

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2018
This contribution provides a review of the book edited by Donna Hornby, Rosalie Kingwill, Lauren Royston and Ben Cousins, Untitled: Securing Land Tenure in Urban and Rural South Africa.
Elmien (WJ) du Plessis
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Women's land rights in the transition to individualized ownership [PDF]

This study explores the impact of changes in land tenure institutions on women's land rights and the efficiency of tree resource management in Western Ghana.
Aidoo, J. B., Otsuka, Keijiro, Payongayong, Ellen, Quisumbing, Agnes R.   +3 more
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The role of tenure in the management of trees at the community level: theoretical and empirical analyses from Uganda and Malawi [PDF]

This paper examines the effects of tenure on tree management at a community level. First, several important conceptual issues arising from this particular meso-level focus are discussed.
Otsuka, Keijiro, Place, Frank
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Lever L’insécurité Foncière: Une Des Premières Clefs Du Développement?

African Studies Quarterly, 1999
This combination of three short papers discusses afforestation, land tenure, and environmnetal legislation in Madagascar. The second piece on tenure insecurity argues that ultimately the state has been poor at formal land tenure immatriculation ...
Alain Bertrand
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Land, trees, and women: evolution of land tenure institutions in Western Ghana and Sumatra [PDF]

This research report examines three questions that are central to IFPRI research: How do property-rights institutions affect efficiency and equity? How are resources allocated within households? Why does this matter from a policy perspective?
Otsuka, Keijiro, Quisumbing, Agnes R.
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Land Tenure Governance in the First Decades of the 21st Century: Progress, Challenges, and Lessons from 18 Countries

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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
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Land tenure in Ethiopia: Continuity and change, shifting rulers, and the quest for state control [PDF]

"Ethiopia experiences a fierce political debate about the appropriate land tenure policy. After the fall of the socialist derg regime in 1991, land property rights have remained vested in the state and only usufruct rights have been alienated to farmers –
Bogale, Ayalneh, Crewett, Wibke, Korf, Benedikt   +2 more
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Does land tenure insecurity discourage tree planting?: evolution of customary land tenure and agroforestry management in Sumatra [PDF]

It is widely believed that land tenure insecurity under a customary tenure system leads to socially inefficient resource allocation. This article demonstrates that land tenure insecurity promotes tree planting, which is inefficient from the private point
Otsuka, Keijiro, Suyanto, S., Tomich, Thomas P.   +2 more
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