Land tenure
- Land tenure and fast-tracking REDD+: time to reframe the debate?
- A. Bolin; L. Lawrence; M. Leggett / Global Canopy Programme, 2013
- This paper argues that legal reform of land tenure will not take place fast enough to enable developing countries to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation through REDD+. It highlights that a global agreemen...
- Agrarian Labour Relations in Zimbabwe after Over a Decade of Land and Agrarian Reform
- Chambati, W. / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
- Walter Chambati April 2013 This paper begins highlights some key features that shape agrarian labour relations in Zimbabwe, illustrated through the setting of Goromonzi district. The new agrarian structure that forms the b...
- Understanding Wage Issues in the Tea Industry
- Oxfam, 2013
- Wage levels are an issue of concern across the globe as individuals, companies and governments wrestle with how wages paid to workers relate to costs of living, corporate and national competitiveness, profitability and broader macroec...
- Global Land Project (GLP)
- The Global Land Project is a joint research project for land systems for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP).
- The Green Belt Initiative and Land Grabs in Malawi
- Chinsinga, B / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012
- FAC Policy Brief 55 by Blessings Chinsinga and Michael Chasukwa There is often a mismatch between the apparent benevolent intents and the practical manifestations of the large scale land deals. The empirical realities of t...
- Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI)
- Land Deal Politics Initiative aims to provide a platform and network for generation evidence on land use and land property relations.
- The Marital Immigrant. Land, and Agricultue: A Malawian Case Study
- P. Kishindo (ed) 2010
- The central and southern regions of Malawi predominantly follow matrilineal succession and inheritance and practice uxorilocal marriages. Women, rather than men, own the primary land rights. Colonial government officials and some Euro...
- Land Grabbing in Africa and the New Politics of Food
- R. Hall / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011
- Policy Brief 41 by Ruth Hall 'Africa is for sale’ is how some characterise it: there is a ‘land grab’ underway. Others are more cautious, speaking of ‘large-scale land acquisitions’, while the Wo...
- Land, Land Policy and Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia
- S. Gebreselassie / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2009
- By Samuel Gebreselassie Land is a public property in Ethiopia. It has been administered by the government since the 1975 radical land reform. The reform brought to an end the exploitative type of relationship that existed betwe...
- Land, Land Policy and Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia
- S. Gebreselassie / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2006
- By Samuel Gebreselassie Land and land tenure is a hot policy issue in Ethiopia. Three key issues are raised – farm size and fragmentation and the question of what is a ‘viable’ farm unit; tenure security and whe...
- Land tenure and fast-tracking REDD+: time to reframe the debate?
- A. Bolin; L. Lawrence; M. Leggett / Global Canopy Programme, 2013
- This paper argues that legal reform of land tenure will not take place fast enough to enable developing countries to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation through REDD+. It highlights that a global agreemen...
- Agrarian Labour Relations in Zimbabwe after Over a Decade of Land and Agrarian Reform
- Chambati, W. / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
- Walter Chambati April 2013 This paper begins highlights some key features that shape agrarian labour relations in Zimbabwe, illustrated through the setting of Goromonzi district. The new agrarian structure that forms the b...
- Understanding Wage Issues in the Tea Industry
- Oxfam, 2013
- Wage levels are an issue of concern across the globe as individuals, companies and governments wrestle with how wages paid to workers relate to costs of living, corporate and national competitiveness, profitability and broader macroec...
- The Green Belt Initiative and Land Grabs in Malawi
- Chinsinga, B / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012
- FAC Policy Brief 55 by Blessings Chinsinga and Michael Chasukwa There is often a mismatch between the apparent benevolent intents and the practical manifestations of the large scale land deals. The empirical realities of t...
- The Marital Immigrant. Land, and Agricultue: A Malawian Case Study
- P. Kishindo (ed) 2010
- The central and southern regions of Malawi predominantly follow matrilineal succession and inheritance and practice uxorilocal marriages. Women, rather than men, own the primary land rights. Colonial government officials and some Euro...
- Land Grabbing in Africa and the New Politics of Food
- R. Hall / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011
- Policy Brief 41 by Ruth Hall 'Africa is for sale’ is how some characterise it: there is a ‘land grab’ underway. Others are more cautious, speaking of ‘large-scale land acquisitions’, while the Wo...
- Land, Land Policy and Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia
- S. Gebreselassie / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2009
- By Samuel Gebreselassie Land is a public property in Ethiopia. It has been administered by the government since the 1975 radical land reform. The reform brought to an end the exploitative type of relationship that existed betwe...
- Land, Land Policy and Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia
- S. Gebreselassie / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2006
- By Samuel Gebreselassie Land and land tenure is a hot policy issue in Ethiopia. Three key issues are raised – farm size and fragmentation and the question of what is a ‘viable’ farm unit; tenure security and whe...
- Collective versus Individual Property: Tenure Security and Forest Tenure Reforms in China
- S. T. Holden / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011
- This study assesses the determinants of forest land allocation to households in the forest tenure reforms in China in the period 1980-2005 using data from three provinces in Southern China; Fujian, Jiang Xi and Yunnan. Furthermore, it...
- Successes and faillures of a rural towns project in Malawi
- P. Kishindo / Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2006
- In the late 1960s the Malawi government established irrigated settlement schemes throughout the country with the goal of promoting the production of rice for export to raise farmers' incomes. A supplementary objective was to promote t...
- Global Land Project (GLP)
- The Global Land Project is a joint research project for land systems for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP).
- Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI)
- Land Deal Politics Initiative aims to provide a platform and network for generation evidence on land use and land property relations.
- International Land Coalition
- A global alliance of civil society and intergovernmental organisations working together to promote secure and equitable access to and control over land for poor women and men through advocacy, dialogue, knowledge sharing and capacity building.
- Food crisis and the global land grab
- News and commentary on land grabbing
