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A need for a tenure arrangement for refugees on customary land
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2023 Context and background: Increasing refugee crisis has focused most host states to integrate refugees with the local communities through land access to customary land whose land rights are not clearly defined and documented.
Sophia Lukabwe Nagujja
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A method to measure perceived tenure security in low-income settlements in India
International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2022 The nature of tenure ‘contracts’ that exist within the low-income settlements involves more than title deeds. Accordingly, ‘tenure security’ manifests itself beyond legal or de jure construction as it also involves de facto forms of tenure and dweller’s ...
Rohit Lahoti
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ACCESS TO LAND AND TENURE SECURITY IN ETHIOPIA’S ETHNIC-BASED ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2022 Ethiopia follows a federal state administrative structure. Regional states are organized on ethnic basis. The country has over 85 ethnic groups and languages, but only majority ethnic groups, with few exceptions, have their own standalone regional states.
Zemen Haddis Gebeyehu
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Journal of African Real Estate Research, 2022 This study examines the relationship between the dependent variable that is ‘feeling of tenure security’ of landholders in Bahir Dar city and the possible determinant factors (independent variables) such as ‘land use type of a parcel’, ‘building type ...
Prosper Turimubumwe +2 more
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Survey data on land tenure and food security among farming households in northern Nigeria
Data in Brief, 2021 This dataset presents data collected from the households’ survey in Northern Nigeria to examine land tenure and property rights among smallholder rice farmers and the influence it has on household food security. Data collection was by personal interviews
Mojisola O. Kehinde +3 more
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Incorporating Land Tenure Security into Conservation
Conservation Letters, 2017 Abstract Insecure land tenure plagues many developing and tropical regions, often where conservation concerns are highest. Conservation organizations have long focused on protected areas as tenure interventions, but are now thinking more comprehensively about whether and how to incorporate other land tenure strategies into their work,
Brian E. Robinson +16 more
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IN QUEST OF CUSTOMARY TENURE SECURITY: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF LAND USE PLANNING IN TANZANIA
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2022 Mainstreaming land use planning for tenure security in rural areas is a key issue to both scholars, academia and policymakers as well as governments in most developing countries.
Method J. Gwaleba
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Innovative Customary Land Governance in Zambia: Experiences, Lessons Learned and Emerging Impacts
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020 In Zambia, security of tenure for communities residing under customary land tenure settings has in recent years increasingly come under threat owing to the pressures of high rate of urbanization, speculation, subdivision and conversion to state land ...
DAVID KATUNGULA
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A Historical Perspective on Land Tenure Security
, 2022 AbstractIn this chapter, we explore the forces that have shaped the current challenge of securing land tenure for those with little voice, power, and means. Focusing on the Global South, we identify trends in the ebb and flow of land tenure security and insecurity, distinguishing between those tied to agricultural-based societies and forest-dependent ...
Sunderlin, W.D., Holland, M.B.
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Legalizing illegalities? Land titling and land tenure security in informal settlements
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2023 This study investigated how land rights formalization had affected land tenure security among landowners in two informal settlements of Lusaka and Chongwe districts, Zambia. It explored how social norms on land inheritance, decision making over land, marital trust and land related conflicts had been affected by the changed nature of land rights.
Bridget Bwalya Umar +5 more
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