After a number of constitutional amendments in 1990 had introduced the need to revise the legal framework for land and natural resources1, the government of Mozambique embarked upon a rather piecemeal process to develop a new policy and institutional framework for natural resource management.
This article outlines the legislative history of the Land Acquisition Act (Cap 152, 1985 Rev Ed) and the philosophy behind the legislation. The main thrust of the article is its analysis of the circumstances leading to the amendments to the Land Acquisition Act. In so doing, it also examines the development of the compensation framework and its implications for landowners.
Globalisation impacts on local land markets and land-use, land transaction costs affect food prices, and the combined effect is particularly damaging to women who produce food and put food on the table for their families.
This is a Contrat de Concession Forestière posted on OpenLandContracts.org. It lists Timber (Wood) as the primary resource(s)
This is a Land Lease Agreement posted on OpenLandContracts.org. It lists Cereal crops,Grain legumes (Pulses),Oil palm or palm oils as the primary resource(s)
Includes the rise of land deals in sub-Saharan Africa; land grabbing and risks for small scale farmers; land grabs: another yoke over women’s land rights?; is land grabbing threatening pastoralism?; opportunity for groups at risk: the African Union’s continental standards on the land question.
This is a Timber Sale Contract posted on OpenLandContracts.org. It lists Timber (Wood) as the primary resource(s)
The handbook introduces key economic and related concepts explaining the functioning of urban land markets. By introducing key classical economic concepts, the handbook provides foundational economic terms that are often referred to in relation to urban land markets.
Northern Uganda is the scene of one of the world’s most volatile and spontaneous processes of reintegration. There are approximately 1.1 to 1.4 million people in the Acholi sub-region at the time of writing3 ; 295,000 internally-displaced persons (IDPs) remain displaced either in IDP camps or transit sites.
Le dibi-madibi est un mode de faire-valoir indirect qui permit aux populations de s’approprier rapidement l’espace dans le sud-ouest du Togo au début de l’introduction de la culture des plantations de caféiers et de cacaoyers. Ce mode de faire valoir profita aux exploitants venus pour la plupart du nord du pays.
This study of 23 leases over land on the island of Epi is the first of the Jastis Blong Evriwan (JBE) research activities to examine land and natural resource management (L&NRM) and access to justice on particular Vanuatu islands. The research will be repeated on the island of Tanna.
Includes gender in the existing literature, entrenched gender discrimination, case studies from Ethiopia, Zambia and Rwanda, ways forward, conclusion. Based on a larger study for the International Land Coalition.