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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Land governance"”.
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Governance Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Land Guards and Land Protection in Ghana
<p>Land management policy in many developing nations has been riddled with conflict because of competing land tenure systems. Having transitioned through customary tenure systems to bureaucratic property rights regimes without a complete shift from the former, Ghana’s land management system, over …
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Host Country Institutions and the Politics of Transnational Land Acquisitions: A Case Study of Egypt
This thesis examines farmland investments in the Nile region with a special focus on Egypt. It analyses how the contextual conditions of land governance influences the patterns of land investment activities in host countries. The literature recognizes that the institutional environment of land …
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Implications of customary land conversions on the authority of traditional leaders: a case of Mungule Chiefdom, Chibombo District in Central Province of Zambia
… surrounding the implications of customary land conversions on the authority of traditional leaders, with a specific focus on Mungule Chiefdom in Chibombo District, Zambia. The study investigates the multifaceted interactions between land administration and indigenous rights preservation in …
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Integrating land administration systems in peri-urban customary areas in Ghana
Dual land administration systems operate in many peri-urban customary areas in subSaharan Africa (Burns, 2007), yet the rationality behind them is different, and possibly conflicting (Watson, 2003). The conflicting rationalities between the dual systems have created binaries in land administration …
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Contestations and conflicts over land access between smallholder settler farmers and nomadic Fulani cattle herdsmen in the Kwahu Afram Plains South District, Ghana
… examines the contestations and conflicts over land access between smallholder settler farmers and nomadic cattle herders in the Kwahu Afram Plains South District. Current studies on the farmer-herder conflict in Ghana have emphasised the conflict between indigenous farmers and nomadic herders. …
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Administrative challenges in Land Reform: the case of Vhembe District of Municipality
… obstacles that impede the effective execution of land reform in the Vhembe District Municipality of South Africa. While land reform was designed to redistribute land, rectify historical injustices, and promote inclusive rural development, its implementation has been sluggish, fragmented, and …
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Shifting Spaces: Housing and Urban Change in Kabul
… thesis explores the evolution of Kabul’s housing landscape with a focus on the emergence of Shahraks (planned townships) after 2001. Drawing on historical research, four case studies (Aria City, Khwaja Rawash Township, Khushal Khan Mena Blocks, and Omid-e-Sabz Township), and interviews with …
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Running Out of Space: Ethno-federalism, capitalist restructuring, and the political economy of peri-urbanization around Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
… violent confrontations between rural and urban land uses and livelihoods, turning the spaces in the peripheries of the city into sites of tension, conflict, and political instability. While the issue of land governance has been a central area of research in the political economy of Ethiopia, the …
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An Analysis of the Political Dynamics that Influenced the Process of Adopting the 2016 National Land Laws in Malawi: A Gender Perspective
… that emerged in the formulation of the 2016 land legislation in Malawi influenced the gendered outcomes. It highlights the complexity of the policymaking process that was shaped by divergent interests and power dynamics of the stakeholders. It argues that although the interests and agenda …
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Urban planning practice under neo-customary land tenure
Contemporary discourses on land policy in sub-Saharan African countries have shifted from polarised debates that hitherto promoted formal land administration or romanticised customary tenure systems. Recent policy trends have emphasised the integration of customary and state tenure systems as a …
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A framework for guiding cadastral systems development in customary land rights contexts
Land reform in South Africa is reported to be failing, and land tenure reform in customary contexts is the least well-addressed component of land reform. To address this failure, a framework for guiding cadastral systems development in customary land rights contexts is developed. Using a research …
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Gated Transformations: Exploring the Intersection of Policy, Private Development, and Urban Living in Accra
… in housing through the provision of land and infrastructure at no cost and demand aggregation mechanisms. This study investigates the design and early implementation of the My Home My Peace (MHMP), a flagship housing program launched in August 2023 to deliver 4,000 subsidized units in …