Legalising Land Rights
Local Practices, State Responses and Tenure Security in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Published on 21. July 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
618 pages
978-90-8728-056-7 (ISBN)
Description
Millions of people live and work on land that they do not legally own in accordance with enforceable state law. The absence of state recognition for local property rights affects people's tenure security and impedes development. Efforts to legalise extra-legal land tenure have traditionally emphasised individual titling and registration. Disappointment with such approaches have led to a search for 'a third way' in land tenure regulation that will reconcile state perspectives with local land rights. This book contributes to the quest for a new pluralistic approach. It combines the description of land tenure regimes in Africa, Latin America and Asia with an analysis of designs, objectives, and actual implementation of specific legalisation programmes. This allows for conclusions on the relationship between various kinds of legalisations and tenure security and the challenges to improve the design and implementation of legalisation programmes.
Reviews / Votes
A rich and lucid review of a crucial development topic, this volume draws comprehensively on the experience of a series of leading researchers and thinkers in the land tenure field. It is both highly timely and extremely welcome. (Roy Prosterman, Founder and Chairmain Emeritus of Landesa (formerly the Rural Development Institute) and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington School of Law).More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Adult education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
1041 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-8728-056-7 (9789087280567)
DOI
10.5117/9789087280567
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Persons
Willem Assies coordinated the research on which this book is based and currently is an independent researcher.|Janine Ubink is senior lecturer law and governance in Africa, at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Development at Leiden University.|Andr? J. Hoekema is professor of legal pluralism at the University of Amsterdam.
Content
Contents - 6[-]1. Legalising land rights in Africa, Asia and Latin America: An introduction - 8[-]2. Peasants and agrarian reforms: The unfinished quest for secure land rights in Ethiopia - 34[-]3. Land rights and tenure security: Rural land registration in Ethiopia - 60[-]4. Securing land rights in Ghana - 98[-]5. Tree plantations, agricultural commodification, and land tenure security in Ghana - 134[-]6. Legalising customary land tenure in Ghana: The case of peri-urban Kumasi - 164[-]7. Land tenure reform and tenure security in Namibia - 194[-]8. Regulating or deregulating informal land tenure? A Namibian case study on the prospects of improving tenure security under the Flexible Land Tenure Bill - 218[-]9. Land reform in Senegal: l'Histoire se r?p?te? - 244[-]10. Tenure security in the periphery of Ziguinchor: The impact of politics and social relations - 272[-]11. Land tenure in Bolivia: From colonial times to post-neoliberalism - 294[-]12. Problems undermining the titling and tenure security of common-property lands: The case of indigenous people of Bolivia's lowlands - 326[-]13. Land tenure and tenure regimes in Mexico: An overview - 356[-]14. A case study on the implementation and outcomes of the 1992 reforms on the Mexican agrarian property institutions: An ejido in the frontier of the urbanisation process - 388[-]15. Land reform and tenure security in China: History and current challenges - 410[-]16. Land loss and conflict in China: Illustrated by cases from Yunnan province - 436[-]17. Peri-urban land tenure legalisation: A tale of two districts - 468[-]18. Land law in Indonesia - 494[-]19. Land registration programmes for Indonesia's urban poor: Need, reach, and effect in the kampongs of Bandung - 528[-]20. The mystery of formalising informal land tenure in the forest frontier: The case of Langkawana, Lampung, Indonesia - 550[-]References - 576[-]List of Contributors - 610[-]Index - 612