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When Tradition Meets Modernity in Land Registration: Evidence from Dagbon, Ghana

Peer-reviewed publication
October, 2020
Central African Republic
Ghana
Norway

Development practice over recent years in much of Africa prioritized formalization of land policies deemed to enhance better handling and use of land as an asset for social development. Following this trend, land reform policy in Ghana was based on a pluralistic legal system in which both the customary land tenure system and the statutory system of land ownership and control co-exist by law. The primary research question for this study was the following: What implications emerge when customary land tenure system and the statutory system of land ownership and control co-exist in law?

A Blockchain-based Land Title Management System for Bangladesh

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2020
Bangladesh

Bangladesh is a small country with a large population. Its increasingly developing economy further makes land a lucrative source of fixed capital. On the other hand, land titling is a cumbersome and lengthy process, where different government bodies process different sets of documents, and bureaucratic loopholes encourage fraudulent activities by organized people. As a result, the current model suffers from good governance.

Immobilized land market caused by lack of secure property rights: case of the cerrado Piauiense

Conference Papers & Reports
February, 2016
Latin America and the Caribbean
South America
Brazil
This article shows the case of the cerrado region where because of a lack of clear property rights the land market is completely immobilized.
 
It started with the land occupation of Piauí's cerrado region and the creation of its land market in the seventies by the State Development Agency (CONDEPI), which sold with symbolic prices very large properties for cattle and fruit production.

Land title to the tiller. Why it’s not enough and how it’s sometimes worse

Policy Papers & Briefs
February, 2012
Philippines

textabstractMainstream adherence to land titling as a strategy to address rural poverty has gained even more sway against the backdrop of the contemporary phenomenon of large-scale farmland acquisitions, known to some as “global land grabbing”. The orthodox narrative, embraced in toto by organisations such as the World Bank, is that formal property rights mitigate the risks of these land acquisitions and allow the poor to access the benefits of these acquisitions.