This case study draws on research that examined the formal urban housing market in South Africa. The research study was carried out by

The Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), with support from the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), performed the Ghana Land Tenure Baseline Survey, the first of its kind survey of tenure rights among cocoa farmers in Ghana. CRIG surveyed almost 1,800 cocoa farmers operating 3,900 cocoa plots regarding various land tenure issues within customary sharecropping arrangements and on owner-managed land. This report describes the findings from the Survey.

To ensure that there is sustainability at the community level in its land rights and governance training programme, Land Rights Research and Resources Institute (HAKIARDHI), a Tanzanian national level organization that spearheads land rights of small-scale producers, uses land rights monitors (LRMs) in its program areas. In each of the selected villages of the program districts, two LRMs (a man and a woman) who have received land rights training from HAKIARDHI are democratically elected by villagers.

This paper uses District Land and Housing Tribunal (DLHT) as a case study to argue that the principle conceived in the enactment of the law that established the tribunal is far from becoming a reality. It uses data of the past four years to demonstrate that DLHT is overburdened by increment of an average of 2000 pending cases every year. It further shows legal and practical challenges that hinder access to and independence of DLHT. The paper calls for drastic strategic measures to strengthen DLHT in terms of human resources and facilities.

Actualmente, más de 200,000 mujeres están vinculadas al sector agropecuario. La Asociación Nacional de Agricultores Pequeños (ANAP), que agrupa a pequeños productores privados, reveló que 12,102 mujeres eran propietarias de tierras en 2012 y constituían 11% del total de dueños.

This Regional Law establishes that the prices of plots of urban land destined for agricultural production in ownership by agricultural organizations or peasant farms allotted thereto on condition of permanent (open-ended) land tenure or as life-long hereditary possession shall be established with 15 percent reduction in relation to its cadastre value.

El presente Decreto Supremo tiene por objeto precisar disposiciones que regulan otorgamiento de tierras eriazas de dominio del Estado con aptitud agropecuaria para el desarrollo de pequeña agricultura, a fin de asegurar su correcta aplicación; así como establecer disposiciones complementarias que permitan el reuso de aguas residuales tratadas en tierras eriazas, que se otorguen al amparo del Reglamento en materia del otorgamiento de tierras eriazas de la Ley N° 26505, de la inversión privada en el desarrollo de las actividades económicas en las tierras del territorio nacional y de las comun

Le présent décret est composé de 143 articles regroupés en dix (10) chapitres) notamment, les dispositions générales (Chapitre I), les organes de gestion domaniale en zone rurale (Chapitre II), les espaces vitaux et réserves foncières (Chapitre III), l’individualisation des droits fonciers collectifs (Chapitre IV), les concessions domaniales rurales (Chapitre V), La gestion des conflits domaniaux (Chapitre), (Chapitre), la constatation des droits sur la terre et régularisation foncière (Chapitre VII), les concessions urbaines (Chapitre VIII), les dispositions transitoires (Chapitre IX), les

This Law amends certain provisions (procedural matters) part of the Law on privatization of state agricultural land (Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia 87/2013).Changes are part of the amended simplified (shortened) procedural matters aimed to make the Law and its related field more accessible.The adoption of this amending Law will also provide for a longer period for payment of the purchase price for the purchase of agricultural land in state ownership if the selected bidder is an individual.

Amends: Law on privatization of state agricultural land. (2013-05-20)

El presente Acuerdo aprueba el Reglamento para la selección y asignación de solicitantes de tierras, que tiene por objeto establecer los procedimientos a que deben someterse las personas solicitantes de tierras (personas físicas o personas jurídicas sin fines de lucro), para el estudio y selección, ya sea para asentamientos campesinos de explotación individual o colectiva.

This Regional Law establishes that local government shall have the authority to make decision on allotment of land plot to natural person in ownership free of charge or to refuse to do so within fifteen days from the date of submittal of application by the person concerned. Minimum land area of the aforesaid plot of land shall be 0, 10 ha and maximum land area shall be 0, 20 ha.

Implements: Land Code (No. 136-FZ of 2001). (2001-10-25)

"Occupation" is defined in section 2 as "actual and bona fide farming by cultivation or with stock". Section 3 specifies terms on which conditions in title deeds in land regarding occupation shall be deemed to be satisfied. Such criteria regard construction of permanent building, cultivation or keeping of cattle or other livestock for a specified amount of time.