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  Land Registration in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  This case study assesses the strengths and weaknesses of a simple, inexpensive, village-based land registration system put in place between 1996 and 1998 in Tigray, Ethiopia.The authors found that the system worked well and fairly - in large part due to it’s simplicity and low cost.
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  Land Registration in Eastern and Western Regions, Ghana

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  Assesses the process of rural land registration in Ghana and its outcomes for poor and marginalised groups.In Ghana, deeds registration has been in place since colonial times, and enables right holders to record their land transactions. However, very little rural land has actually been affected by this registration process.
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  Land registration and women’s land rights in Amhara Region, Ethiopia

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  Assesses the ongoing land registration process in the Amhara Region and its outcomes for women.
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  Land registration in Nampula and Zambezia provinces, Mozambique

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  Assesses the process of rural land registration in Mozambique and the outcomes for poor and marginalised groups. The research finds that community land registration, under the 1997 land law, can strengthen community rights to use and benefit from their land in relation to outsider interests in land.
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  Land registration in Maputo and Matola Cities, Mozambique

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  Assesses the process of land registration in peri-urban areas of Mozambique and its outcomes for poor and marginalised groups. The research finds that there is little awareness of land registration processes on the part of low-income groups. The ‘individual’ registration process is slow and bureaucratic with high transaction costs and corrupt practices on the part of state institutions.
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  Land registration in Amhara Region, Ethiopia

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  Assesses the process to establish a system of land registration and improve land tenure security, and its outcomes for poor and marginalised groups in Amhara, Ethiopia .The registration process is found to be generating conflict at the local level, due to illegal land grabbing, encroachments into common lands and land sales.
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  Kinship, transaction costs and land rental market participation

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005

  With land being the main source of income for many people in the developing world, security of access or ownership rights is imperative to the alleviation of rural povety. Past polices of land redistribution, prohibition of land renting and later legalisation of short-term contracts only, may have prevented or undermined tenancy markets in Ethiopia.
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  Some outstanding issues in the debate on external promotion of land privatisation

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  Since the early 1990s, the dominant consensus in the debate on land rights reform in sub-Saharan Africa has been that external interventions to privatise land rights are usually inappropriate and likely to remain so.
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  Supporting land reform in South Africa: participatory planning experience in the Northern Cape Province

  Farm Africa, 2005

  This paper documents a participatory approach for supporting black South Africans in developing knowledge and skills to use land, acquired under the land reform scheme, more effectively.
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  Key experiences of land reform in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa

  Farm Africa, 2005

  Since 1994, the South African government has embarked on an ambitious land reform programme to redistribute and return land to previously disenfranchised communities. However, many black people lack the knowledge, skills and experience needed to manage their land.

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