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Land governance
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September 2010 - February 2014
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Publications (35)
This book delivers new conceptual and empirical studies surrounding the design and evaluation of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure and land-based gender concerns. It explores alternative approaches for land management and land tenure through international experiences. Theme...
Africa has been at the centre of a "land grab" in recent years, with investors lured by projections of rising food prices, growing demand for "green" energy, and cheap land and water rights. But suchland is often also used or claimed through custom by communities. What does this mean for Africa? In what ways are rural people's lives and livelihoods...
![Figure 3. Landscape change in Gonarezhou (a) 2007 and (b) 2017 [41]....](profile/Nesisa-Nyathi/publication/346363560/figure/fig2/AS:1022800378736645@1620866021222/Landscape-change-in-Gonarezhou-a-2007-and-b-2017-41-Landscape-change-in_Q320.jpg)
![Landcover change in Gonarezhou National Park between 2007 and 2017 [41].](profile/Nesisa-Nyathi/publication/346363560/figure/tbl1/AS:1022800378748929@1620866021278/Landcover-change-in-Gonarezhou-National-Park-between-2007-and-2017-41_Q320.jpg)
National parks play an important role in maintaining natural ecosystems which are important sources of income and livelihood sustenance. Most national parks in Southern Africa are managed by their states. Before 2007, Gonarezhou National Park was managed by the Zimbabwe Parks Management and Wildlife Authority, which faced challenges in maintaining...
Although land forms the basis for marginal livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa, the asset is more strategic for women as they usually hold derived and dependent rights to land in customary tenure areas. Initiatives to secure women’s land tenure in customary areas are undermined by the social embeddedness of the rights, patriarchy, lack of awareness b...
This report helps to enhance current knowledge of land and natural resource tenure challenges and hopefully will inspire additional policy debate on implementation of land and natural resources tenure programmes. It will also be useful to global bilateral and multilateral organizations, and international professional bodies in addressing land and n...
Most literature on land tenure in sub-Saharan Africa has presented women as a homogenous group. This study uses evidence from Ghana, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe to show that women have differentiated problems, needs, and statuses in their quest for land access and tenure security. It illustrates how women-to-women differences influence women's access to...
This article explores a renewed approach to research centre. It uses desktop review and interviews with key informants from African universities to investigate the specific features that should characterise a research centre on land governance in Africa. The investigation also focuses on how to package and implement research centre concepts in land...
Women in Southern Africa have historically been disadvantaged when negotiating access to property. This disadvantage has persisted in spite of advances in policy and legal frameworks aimed at securing women’s access to land and livelihood assets by the State. In Zimbabwe, such provisions have had limited impact on securing women’s land access becau...
Poor women in developing countries rely on land as source of livelihood. Increasing pressure on land — brought on by globalisation pressures, increased population and privatisation — undermines women’s land tenure security. The comparison of women’s land access is predominantly measured against that of men, and this has been the basis for formulati...
This paper focuses on large-scale land acquisitions and the implications of these new trends for land tenure
rights in sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights trends in legal and policy approaches; describes and analyses
new pressures on land and related natural resources; provides an analysis of drivers of resource scarcity and
competing uses; summarise...
Africa has been at the centre of a "land grab" in recent years, with investors lured by projections of rising food prices, growing demand for "green" energy, and cheap land and water rights. But suchland is often also used or claimed through custom by communities. What does this mean for Africa? In what ways are rural people's lives and livelihoods...
Africa has been at the centre of a "land grab" in recent years, with investors lured by projections of rising food prices, growing demand for "green" energy, and cheap land and water rights. But suchland is often also used or claimed through custom by communities. What does this mean for Africa? In what ways are rural people's lives and livelihoods...
Women in Southern Africa have historically been disadvantaged in negotiating access to property. This is in spite of advances in policy and legal frameworks aimed at securing women’s access to land and livelihood assets by the state. In Zimbabwe, such provisions have had limited impact on securing women’s land access because of legal pluralism, pra...
Poor women in developing countries rely on land as source
of livelihood. Increasing pressure on land — brought on by
globalisation pressures, increased population and privatisation
— undermines women’s land tenure security. The comparison
of women’s land access is predominantly measured
against that of men, and this has been the basis for formulati...
Land is central to the prospects for development in sub-Saharan Africa. While a growing proportion of the region’s population is living in urban settlements, the absolute rural population continues to grow. The vast majority depend on land-based livelihoods derived mostly from the region’s 80 million small-scale farms. Yet many have precarious live...
The importance of land to poor people’s livelihoods cannot
be over emphasized. Land provides the foundation upon
which people construct and maintain livelihoods. Consequently,
secure access to land is a prerequisite for securing
livelihoods. Women are the majority of the poor as they
have limited access to social and economic resources. This
increa...
Dominant arguments about women’s land access stress the
vulnerability of single women’s land rights in customary tenure
areas. The vulnerability is based on long-held assumptions
about customary tenure land governance, land use and
gender relations. The paper seeks to contribute to the debate
on customary tenure area land access, landlessness and
u...
Poor women in developing countries rely on land as source
of livelihood. Increasing pressure on land — brought on by
globalisation pressures, increased population and privatisation
— undermines women’s land tenure security. The comparison
of women’s land access is predominantly measured
against that of men, and this has been the basis for formulati...
Legislative and economic changes in Zimbabwe have caused a confrontation between the younger and older generations over resources, with bad consequences for both. This article is based on research into the experiences of families living in both rural and urban areas. Since women normally outlive their husbands, struggles over property are common wh...
In the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) paper on
citizen’s organisations that have emerged in
response to ser vice failure and poor local
government, Paradza and Mokwena endorse the
research findings of Idasa and Atkinson which
suggest that local government’s woes in fact
arise from a complex array of factors that include
‘weak management, hesitant...
This article examines some methodological issues in using the life history approach in social research. Although there are diverse opinions on how the approach should be used, there are certain methods of collecting, analysing, and reporting ensuing data that are often associated with it; these methods were used by the authors in recent studies car...
Projects
Projects (5)
The objective of this project is to develop publish research articles that develop an understanding of the of, and to cover the broad knowledge gap that exists on, the land/water/forest–people–health–wellbeing nexus in natural resource administration.
This project is part of the "Land and natural resources tenure security Learning initiative" of IFAD, the GLTN and the Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS). TSLI-ESA knowledge management platform. The objective was to capacitate youths (early career scholars in land-related disciplines) from the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA), with land rights knowledge and the opportunity to conduct independent research on the status of land and natural resources tenure in their countries. I engaged in mentoring and supervising, and editing the final volume of their publication released by the GLTN, IFAD and AAPs. This involved 21 scholars from 16 ESA countries. It also led to an ESA network of land researchers.
This Special Issue, "Land, Women, Youths, and Land Tools or Methods," is published in the open Access Journal, LAND. It builds a knowledge base of research that presents emerging land tools or methods that can improve understanding of land–women–youth–policy relationships. I therefore invite research and review articles focusing on (but not limited to) the following themes:
(1) Developing capacity in the context of women and youth land rights;
(2) Responsible governance of tenure in the context of gender, women and societal transformations;
(3) Evaluating tenure and tenure security in human settlements;
(4) Analysing cases of youth and women’s land situations in the Global North and South;
(5) Assessing land management (including land governance, land policy, and land administration) approaches and their impacts women and youths;
(6) Searching for inclusive ways of managing and governing land resources, to ensure gender and social equity in developing countries;
(7) (Re)Scrutinising the impact of tenure regimes on women and youth land rights with a focus on progress so far;
(8) Investigating means, tools, and methods for securing women's and youths' access to land;
(9) Developing policy-relevant innovations for improved equity in the use of land; and
(10) Reviewing existing approaches to sustainably prescribe methods going forward.
