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Investissements fonciers redevabilité et cadre légal : leçons d’Afrique de l’ouest

Reports & Research
Mai, 2016
Afrique occidentale

Source: IIED


La récente vague de transactions foncières à grande échelle née des investissements agro-industriels a mis en lumière une demande généralisée en faveur d’une redevabilité accrue en matière de gouvernance des terres et des investissements. Les cadres légaux influencent les possibilités de reddition de comptes et le recours à la loi a figuré dans les réponses des communautés locales aux transactions foncières.

Mapuche: resistencia y propuestas

Policy Papers & Briefs
Novembre, 2010
Chili

* Elvis Espinoza Gutiérrez
En Chile, este año una treintena de mapuche estuvieron en huelga de hambre demandando cambios en la  ley antiterrorista por la que se encuentran detenidos en varias cárceles. Este artículo explica el contexto de ese conflicto.

The Law of Land Administration of the People’s Republic of China

Legislation & Policies
Novembre, 2007
Chine

Article 1:

"This Law is enacted in accordance with the Constitution for the purpose of strengthening land administration, maintaining the socialist public ownership of land, protecting and developing land resources, making rational use of land, effectively protecting cultivated land and promoting sustainable development of the society and the economy."

USAID Report on Land Tenure & Cocoa Production in Ghana

Reports & Research
Mars, 2017
Ghana

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.

Large Scale Land Acquisitions for Investment in Kenya

Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
Novembre, 2016
Kenya

Land acquisitions, either driven by foreign investments or domestic investment needs have continued to polarize opinions. When this research was proposed, it was premised on arguments by scholars Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Helen Markelova, who had analysed agricultural land deals, and argued that there were potentially two schools of thought about foreign acquisitions over agricultural land.

Handbook on Land Laws

Legislation & Policies
Legislation
National Policies
Février, 2015
Kenya

The Land Act, 2012

The Land Registration Act, 2012

The National Land Commission Act, 2012

The Environment & Land Court Act, 2011

The Urban Areas & Cities Act, 2011

The Structure of the Cadastral System in Kenya

Journal Articles & Books
Juin, 2013
Kenya

The cadastral system in Kenya was established in 1903 to cater for land alienation for the white settlers. Since then, a hundred years later, the structure of the system has remained more or less the same despite major changes in surveying technology. The government of Kenya has realized that the current structure is not conducive to economic demands of the 21st century and is interested in re-organizing the structure in line with the current constitutional dispensation and new paradigms in land management.

People's Law Journal

Reports & Research
Février, 2016
Afrique du Sud

The first volume of the People's Law Journal was written by the Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC) in the Faculty of Law at the Universityof Cape Town and edited and published by Ndifuna Ukwazi. The journal explores a wide range of relevant issues including land restitution, elite capture, traditional leadership, mining and the erosion of communal land rights in the post-apartheid era

Land tenure policy and practice in Zambia

Reports & Research
Décembre, 2002
Zambie

Land policy and the proposed land tenure reforms of Government have important implications for the development of the agriculture sector in Zambia. The purpose of this report is to ‘identify the critical issues that will need to be assessed further if DFID decides to offer support to the agricultural sector.’

The Seventh National Development Plan 2017 - 2021

Legislation & Policies
Mai, 2017
Zambie

Zambia remains committed to the socio-economic development planning of the country as reflected by the return to development planning in 2005. The Seventh National Development Plan (7NDP) for the period 2017- 2021 is the successor to the Revised Sixth National Development Plan, 2013-2016 (R-SNDP) following its expiry in December 2016. The Plan, like the three national development plans (NDPs) that preceded it, is aimed at attaining the long-term objectives as outlined in the Vision 2030 of becoming a “prosperous middle-income country by 2030”.