This paper examines land tenure in informal urban settlements in India from a gender perspective through field research conducted in Ahmedabad in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). The author describes the formal and informal tenure arrangements that were in place in these settlements and analyses their implications for women. She proceeds to raise key issues that ...

The formalization of rural people’s rights to agricultural and forest land is a key policy focus for many developing countries (Larson et al. 2010; Deininger and Hilhorst 2013). These reforms can improve marginalized people’s wellbeing by securing their hold on durable income-yielding assets, especially where land ownership is culturally prized (Holden et al. 2013; Lawry et al. 2014). However, ...

3 his White Paper was produced by the Land Tenure and Development Technical Committee, co-chaired by a representative from the Development Policy Directorate in the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and a representative from the French Development Agency. It is the distillation of numerous debates, discussions and consultations held over the course of 2007 and 2008 between French ...

the study on gender and net farm income of cassava-based farmers under individual land tenure system was done in abia state of nigeria. the main objective was to determine the net farm income (nfi) and the benefit cost ratio (bcr) of the cassava farmers by gender vis-aviz their income levels as well as food security in the state. a multi-stage random sampling technique was adopted while data we...

Formalisation of property relations through the registration of land and the issuance of titles is but the latest in a longhistoryof optimistic policyprescriptions imposedon thepoornations of theworld. Aswith the discreditedWashington Consensus, the imperative of formalisation flows from the flawed inductive logic that says” “rich countries have formalised tenure, therefore formalisation of ten...

Abstract Tropical countries are making ambitious commitments to Forest Landscape Restoration with the aim of locking up carbon, conserving biodiversity and benefiting local livelihoods. However, global national analyses restoration potential frequently ignore socio-legal complexities which impact both effectiveness equitability restoration. We show that areas highest disproportionately found in...

Since 1949, the data of land tenure has a positive effect on reconciling land tenure conflicts, defining the scope of collective land and state-owned land, implementing the system of cultivated land protection and land use control, designing general land use planning, accelerating information-based land resource management, etc. The emphasis in the near future should be placed on establishing r...