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Showing 1 to 20 of 185 for “"Land tenure"”.
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The transformation of land tenure in Lesotho
… this dissertation examines the changing forms of land tenure in a rural Southern African population. Land tenure in Lesotho is seen to have undergone many transformations over the last 200 years. These transformations are illustrated through an historical analysis of political and of social …
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Land tenure and environmental conditions at Wupperthal
This study documents a unique system of informal land tenure practised internally at the Moravian mission settlement of Wupperthal. The study analyses the system of tenure in terms of formal recognized systems, that exist or have existed in the past, and also in terms of the settlement's physical …
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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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Land tenure and sustainable livelihoods in north-east Ghana
Many authors have blamed African land tenure systems for the poor agricultural production and environmental degradation in sub-Saharan Africa, and therefore the resulting hunger, environmental refugees and the lack of socio-economic progress. The aim of this investigation was to investigate the …
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Socio-historical research and land tenure in South Africa: a case study of land tenure rights on the Northern Cape farm of Melkkraal
… of the research was to clarify and explain the land tenure relations of a farming community called Melkkraal situated in the Northern Cape such that development assistance could be rendered to them by the Department of Land Affairs (DLA).The Melkkraal farm has been owned by various members of …
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Land tenure and agrarian social structure in Ethiopia, 1636-1900
… tribute from the subject peasantry. By using land registers, surveys, charters, and private property transactions, which I collected from Ethiopian churches and monasteries, this dissertation challenges this conception of property in premodern Ethiopia by arguing that Ethiopian elites did …
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Design of a communal land tenure information system for Namibia
This thesis describes some of the communal land tenure systems pertaining to Namibia. Understandably, lands held under communal land tenure have tended to be neither fully documented nor legally and explicitly formalised; communal land tenure systems have been through the mercy of arbitrary action …
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The effect of the Zambian Land tenure system on Agricultural development
The land tenure system of any given country has a long term impact on the development of the agricultural sector. Hence for developing countries like Zambia which wish to diversify their economies through the promotion of the sector, the land tenure system must be moulded in such a way as to be …
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Land tenure, agri-environmental policy, and conservation practice use in Iowa
… conservation practices, and (3) the effects of land tenure on farmers' use of inputs and conservation practices.</p> <p>Chapter 2 examines whether cost-share programs – which pay farmers to use a specific conservation practice – have had the desired effect of increasing cover-crop use in Iowa. …
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Somos Indígena: Ethnic Politics and Land Tenure in New Mexico, 1694-1965
… examines changes in Hispano and Pueblo Indian land tenure in the Tewa Basin of north central New Mexico across three centuries. Land grants imposed upon the Pueblo world in the Spanish colonial period limited the shrinking Pueblo population. They paradoxically protected Pueblo land from further …
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Scale of farming operations and resource use under alternative land tenure arrangements
… population is increasing rapidly, the area of land per capita declines and efficient use of natural resources becomes the key to economic growth. Under private ownership, acquisition of rights to use land leads to a mixed pattern of tenure arrangements. Some farmers have legal title to the land …
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Land tenure and agriculture in Sayyoo-Afillo, Western Wallaga, Ethiopia, 1880-1974
This dissertation outlines the agrarian history of the Oromo from their sixteenth century migration to the twentieth century. Using linguistic evidence the study argues that in the pre-sixteenth century period the pastoral and the agricultural Oromo had an interdependent economy and a unified …
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A strategic approach to developing residential land tenure administration : the case of Iraq
… the sustainable institutional aspects of the Land Tenure Administration (LTA) under the current situation in Iraq, as the principal mechanism through which LTA can be sought. In fact, the critical situations of post-war, economic crisis and terrorism waves in Iraq are now heading the country …
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Land, history, and housing: Colonial legacies and land tenure in Greater Kuala Lumpur
What land is available for the development of non-market housing in Greater Kuala Lumpur (KL) and how do housing providers attain the rights to them? In Malaysia, the power relations that underlie the relationship between land, housing, and society are entrenched in historically path dependent …
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Land reform in Uganda : harmonising the land tenure systems of Uganda, 1900-2003
… model by which the existing diverse and complex land tenure systems of Uganda could be harmonised into a formal land tenure structure that is simple, easily managed by the land registry officials, focused on the local level and readily understood by the community. Moreover, it would be regulated …
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Land tenure, investment, land markets, off-farm employment, and rural welfare in Ethiopia
… few countries in Africa to implement large-scale land titling programmes aiming to improve land related-investments. Since 1995, Ethiopia also has partially liberalised rural land rental markets with the aim of improving the functioning of these markets. Evidence on whether these reforms resulted …
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Land tenure and rural livelihoods in Zambia: case studies of Kamena and St. Joseph
This study explores how land and natural resources in rural communities are accessed, used, and managed in livelihoods. In particular it examines first, crop field tenure, and livelihoods in natural resources. Second it explores factors that mediate access, use and control of land and natural …
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Applying Data Mining and Social Network Analysis Techniques in a Land Tenure Information System
… relationships are fundamental attribute of land tenure systems. The primary objective of this research is to develop an evolutionary TTM-based LTIS to cater for requirements dictated by the rapidly evolving social, political and economic conditions in peri-urban communities and to apply data …
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