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Women’s Access to Land and Security of Tenure post 2013 Constitution in Zimbabwe
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020 Rural women’s livelihoods in Africa are dependent on their rights and entitlement to land as well as security of tenure. Equally important is how land laws and land governance systems shape and reshape women’s access to land and tenure security. As such,
Sandra Bhatasara
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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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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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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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Land, 2020 This paper reviews the scholarly literature discussing the effect(s) of land registration on the relations between land tenure security and agricultural productivity.
Uwacu Alban Singirankabo +1 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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Land tenure security for women: A conceptual framework
Land Use Policy, 2020 Abstract While strengthening women’s land rights is increasingly on national and international agendas, there is little consensus on how to understand women’s tenure security. Analyses of women’s land rights often use very different definitions of land rights, from formal ownership to women’s management of plots allocated to them by their husbands ...
Doss, C, Meinzen-Dick, R
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How do practitioners characterize land tenure security? [PDF]
Conservation Science and Practice, 2020 Abstract Improving land tenure security (LTS) is a significant challenge for sustainable development. The Sustainable Development Goals and other recent global initiatives have renewed and increased the need to improve LTS to address climate change, biodiversity loss, food security, poverty reduction, and other ...
Yuta J. Masuda +14 more
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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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