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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Land tenure system"”.
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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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Assessing customary land administration systems for peri-urban land in Ghana
Customary tenure is the predominant land tenure system in Ghana. It has been practiced for many years. Customary land tenure is built on the foundations of an African concept of land, distinguished by centrality of community, spirituality, and mutual dependence of the individual and the community. …
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What issues facilitate and constrain the use of value capture mechanisms by the state in Uganda : case study of Kampala-Entebbe Express Highway
… value. These included insufficient valuation of land parcels and registration of land ownership, the existing land tenure system, gaps in the policy and legal framework and insufficient institutional capacity.
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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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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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Effects of land policies and development strategies on housing : a case of Hong Kong
… of this thesis is to investigate the effects of land supply on housing prices in Hong Kong. Studies will be carried out to define whether there are any correlation between land supply, housing supply and residential property prices. In order to better understand Hong Kong's housing market, this …
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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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Canberra 1954-1980
… on issues and problems of growth such as the land tenure system and the abolition of land rent, the attempts to wrest more territory from New South Wales, the concept of Canberra as a social laboratory, community struggles with authority, moves towards self-government, and the restraint and …
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Canberra 1954-1980
… on issues and problems of growth such as the land tenure system and the abolition of land rent, the attempts to wrest more territory from New South Wales, the concept of Canberra as a social laboratory, community struggles with authority, moves towards self-government, and the restraint and …
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The contribution of the resettlement programme on sustainable livelihoods of small - scale commercial farmers in Mariental rural constituency of the Hardap region, Namibia
… Namibia was confronted with a skewed land tenure system where the minority owned vast productive land (Juach et al., 2013). To avoid losing land to dominant locals and rich occupants the government established the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement to be responsible for the process of …
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Harnessing Environmental Justice to Protect Against Land-grabbing in Cameroon
… in August 2016. The thesis examined the issue of land-grabbing through an environmental justice lens. The thesis first reviewed the concept of environmental justice and the threats that land-grabbing by powerful transnational corporations pose to subsistence communities in Africa. Additionally, …
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Collecting Ideals: Re-envisioning ejidos as climate-action platforms
… the Mexican Revolution's fight to redistribute land back to the indigenous populations in a collective land tenure system or 'commons.' After decades of operation in which neoliberal critics claimed that ejidatarios were insufficiently productive, the Mexican authorities reformed the …
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A political ecology of the hacienda system: environmental transformation and everyday lives at Guachalá, Ecuador
… archaeological political ecology of the hacienda system centered on a major textile workshop (obraje) and agropastoral estate called Hacienda Guachalá, in the northern Ecuadorian highland parish of Cangahua, canton of Cayambe. Scholars have long studied the hacienda land tenure system to …
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Accessing land in the city s peri-urban areas: The case of Lilongwe, Malawi
Land access is arguably key to the attainment of sustainable urbanisation and development. Studies show that high urbanisation rates have resulted in a high demand for serviced land and housing in the face of a slow rates of formal provision of the same. This is particularly true in Lilongwe's …
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The impacts of large-scale land acquisition for communal landholders: a case study of Atebubu-Amantin municipality, Ghana
The study assesses the impacts of Large-Scale Land Acquisition (LSLA) for communal landholders in the Atebubu-Amantin Municipality of Ghana. It employs a combination of Accumulation by Dispossession (ABD) and Sustainable Livelihood Framework (SLF) in analysing the impacts. Using these two …
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3D property objects in South African local government: the necessity of representing and managing the third dimension in the City of Cape Town property management system
… analyse whether there is a need for a form of 3D Land Administration System (LAS)in South Africa (SA) based on the land administration functions of land tenure, land use, land development and land value. The investigation can be divided into two key focus areas that align with subsystems of the …
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Ecology, Agriculture and Proletarianization : A study of the sinazongwe area in Gwembe Valley of the Southern Province of Zambia : 1900 to 1989
… chapter demonstrates how colonial policies like land alienation, the Inyoka tobacco ordinance of 1924 and the Kariba resettlement programme undermined agricultural development in our area of study. It shows how the impact of colonial policies on ecology worsened the problem of shortage of food …
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Ecology, Agriculture and Proletarianization : A study of the sinazongwe area in Gwembe Valley of the Southern Province of Zambia : 1900 to 1989
… chapter demonstrates how colonial policies like land alienation, the Inyoka tobacco ordinance of 1924 and the Kariba resettlement programme undermined agricultural development in our area of study. It shows how the impact of colonial policies on ecology worsened the problem of shortage of food …
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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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