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Promoting training of Central Africans in land governance for poverty reduction

18 May 2023

Authors:

Prof. Félix Ngana

Central African Republic

Interview with Prof. Félix Ngana of the University of Bangui: Promoting training of Central Africans in land governance for poverty reduction

In this interview, Prof. Felix Ngana talks about the recent creation of the Training and Research Unit (UFR) on Land Governance and Local Development (GFDL) at the University of Bangui in the Central African Republic (CAR). Following the establishment of a Bachelor's degree program, plans to extend this training to the Master's and PhD levels are already underway. These efforts are timely, as the country has embarked on a decentralization process to elect mayors and governors to head municipal and regional councils, respectively.

Indigenous Forests Are Some of the Amazon’s Last Carbon Sinks

6 January 2023

Authors:

Mr. Peter Veit

Katie Reytar

Latin America and the Caribbean

Forests around the world play a major role in curbing or contributing to climate change. Standing, healthy forests sequester more atmospheric carbon than they emit and act as a carbon sink; degraded and deforested areas release stored carbon and are a carbon source.

This Is Our Land: Why Reject the Privatisation of Customary Land

20 July 2021

Papua New Guinea

WHY REJECT CUSTOMARY LAND PRIVATISATION

Most of the world’s land is still stewarded by communities under customary systems. Billions of people rely on communally managed farmland, pasture, forests and savannahs for their livelihoods.

This collective management of resources is viewed in the colonial or capitalist economic model as an obstacle to individual wealth creation and private profit.

What landmark Kwazulu-Natal court ruling means for land reform in South Africa

22 June 2021

Authors:

Prof. Ben Cousins

South Africa

By Ben Cousins, Emeritus Professor, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape

* This article originally appeared in the The Conversation on 22 June 2021

Customary law and institutions: Comparative perspectives from Eswatini and Lesotho

6 August 2021

Authors:

Mr. Sean Johnson

Lesotho

Eswatini

By Sean Johnson, land administration specialist at COWI, Swaziland

* This piece was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa

State Politics & the Customary Power of Chiefs in Zimbabwe

6 August 2021

Authors:

Dr. Phillan Zamchiya

Zimbabwe

By Phillan Zamchiya, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)

* This article was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa

Women’s Tenure Rights and Land Reform in Angola

6 August 2021

Authors:

Allan Cain

Angola

Southern Africa

By Allan Cain, Development Workshop Angola

* This article was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa

To secure equal rights to land, bring men and women together

13 July 2021

Authors:

Dr. Elizabeth Daley

Tanzania

Mongolia

Global

There is an underlying tension in the land rights movement that is rarely addressed head on, which is the perception that securing women’s land rights threatens community land rights. Community land rights are typically held by indigenous people, small-scale and subsistence farmers, pastoralists, herders and many other groups who are directly dependent on land for their livelihoods but whose land tenure is often the most precarious.

3rd Mekong Regional Land Forum: Forum Replay

26 May 2021

South-Eastern Asia

Cambodia

Laos

Myanmar

Thailand

Vietnam

Summaries and selected replays from the 3rd Mekong Regional Land Forum are available below. Full replays of the plenary sessions will be posted shortly -- check back soon!

Why are tribal women in India still robbed of their land rights?

8 March 2021

Authors:

Shipra Deo

India

In Jharkhand, eastern India, women are not entitled to own land and accusations of witchcraft are wielded against them to silence their claims to land

When Talabitti’s husband died in 2016, her claim to the family land seemed to die with him. Though her husband had worked the family land by himself, upon his death his male cousins laid their claim. If Talabitti attempted to make a competing claim, they threatened to drive her away – with violence, if necessary. Sadly, this threat materialized.

Do Certificates of Customary Ownership as Currently Issued and Delivered Translate into More Secure Land Rights for Women and Men Involved: A Case Study of Nwoya Using Data Collected by the Ministry of Lands, Housing, and Urban Development

23 November 2019

Authors:

Mr. Herbert Kamusiime

Uganda

This blog is a summary of a paper that assesses the effectiveness of a specific land tenure intervention to improve the lives of women, by asking new questions of available project data sets.

“This plot is not for sale!”: Land Administration and Land Disputes in Uganda

6 November 2019

Authors:

Miss Teddy Kisembo

Uganda

“This plot is not for sale” are the six words you will find, marked on a lot of properties and plots of land in Uganda. The words are meant to ward off quack land or property brokers and conmen. Most of the cases handled in courts in Uganda, and Kampala in particular, are fraud-related cases (like selling land while the true owners are away using counterfeit titles) and land transaction fraud (when fake land titles are obtained and sadly some officers in the land registry are involved).