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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162057103321

Titolo

Fair land governance [[electronic resource] ] : how to legalise land rights for rural development / / edited by Jan Michiel Otto and André Hoekema

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden [The Netherlands], : Leiden University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-11846-6

9786613522757

94-006-0054-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Law, governance, and development. Research

Classificazione

347.3447

Altri autori (Persone)

OttoJan Michiel <1952->

HoekemaA. J

Disciplina

346.0432

Soggetti

Rural development

Land use, Rural

Land use, Rural - Law and legislation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Legalising Land Rights, Yes But How? An Introduction -- 2. Simple Solutions to Complex Problems: Land Formalisation as a 'Silver Bullet' -- 3. Securing Land Rights in Africa - Trends in National and International Law -- 4. From State to People's Law: Assessing Learning-By-Doing as a Basis of New Land Law -- 5. Future Cadastres -- 6. If Not Private Property, Then What? Legalising Extra-Legal Rural Land Tenure via a Third Road.

Sommario/riassunto

These farmers have been working this land for generations. But they have no papers. So the government may clear this land for a project. People fear they will be chased away.” Such stories can be heard every day in Africa, Asia and Latin America. They demonstrate the insecurity of rural smallholders who are threatened with eviction without proper compensation. The ‘project’ may be large-scale agriculture, industry, bio fuels, forest conservation, urban sprawl, or transnational land-grabbing by countries insecure in food and energy resources. Can such peasants be empowered with ‘papers’? Five legal experts who believe in adaptation to local conditions share their experiences and work with



local people, take their needs seriously, respect their ways of managing land, make good use of the legal system and opt for simple but robust registration systems.