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Differentiations in Women’s Land Tenure Experiences: Implications for Women’s Land Access and Tenure Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

open access: yesLand, 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE INDEPENDENCE OF SOUTH AFRICAN JUDGES: A CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGISLATIVE PERSPECTIVE [PDF]

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2015
Judicial independence is fundamental to democracy. It is in that context that this paper considers whether the existing constitutional and legislative mechanisms provide sufficient judicial independence to South African judges.
Lunga Siyo, John Cantius Mubangizi
doaj   +1 more source

Rethinking the Impact of Land Certification on Tenure Security, Land Disputes, Land Management, and Agricultural Production: Insights from South Wello, Ethiopia

open access: yesLand, 2023
Land is a precious resource in the Ethiopian highlands, where the entire agricultural system depends on rain-fed system. The resource faces multiple interconnected environmental and socioeconomic challenges.
Bichaye Tesfaye   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Security of Tenure in Social Housing in England [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Policy and Society, 2013
The Localism Act 2011 granted social landlords in England the right to award fixed-term (flexible) tenancies, thereby ending the right of new tenants to a secure tenancy. Reform was justified via reference to a revisionist critique of social housing, which accused security of tenure of promoting dependency, undercutting social mobility and preventing ...
Robinson, David, Walshaw, Aimee
openaire   +3 more sources

Spatial Data Infrastructure Based Approach for Institutionalizing the Tenure Security in Alienated Government Lands

open access: yesTropical Agricultural Research, 2012
Tenure security enables people to reap the benefits from land without any disturbances. As such, it is the basic element of sustainable economic, social and, environmental development.
NMPM Piyasena   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Relations between Land Tenure Security and Agricultural Productivity: Exploring the Effect of Land Registration

open access: yesLand, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Survey data on land tenure and food security among farming households in northern Nigeria

open access: yesData 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
doaj   +1 more source

Land Tenure Security and Resident’s Stability in Squatter Settlements of Lahore

open access: yesARCHive-SR, 2019
Squatters have now become integral part of urban centers in most developing countries like Pakistan, with Lahore experiencing growth of such informal settlements at its peak.
Sana Malik   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implications of perceived tenure security and property rights protection in Burkina Faso

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences
The study examines perceived tenure security in Burkina Faso, focusing on socio-cultural factors, authority relations, state politics, and gender dynamics.
Ibrahim Musah   +2 more
doaj   +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

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