| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 206 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Africa development forum |
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Africa development forum.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Abbreviations; Overview; The Challenge; The Opportunities; The Key to Leveraging Land for Development: Scaling Up Reforms and Investments; Tables; 0.1 Key Elements of and Pathways to Scaling Up Land Administration in Sub-Saharan Africa; Who Does What to Scale Up?; 0.2 Scaling Up Land Administration: The Role of Key Players in Sub-Saharan Africa; Benefits of Scaling Up Comprehensive Reforms and Investments; Note; References; 1 Introduction; The Historical Context |
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Global Experiences and the Piloting of Innovations in Sub-Saharan AfricaReadiness to Scale Up to Meet Demand; 1.1 Number of Doing Business Reforms Making It Easier to Register Property, 2005-11; Boxes; 1.1 The Voluntary Guidelines on Governance of Tenure; Objectives and Structure of the Book; Note; References; 2 The Impact of Documenting Land Rights on Investment and Productivity; Experiences with Registration of Communal Land Rights; 2.1 Legalizing and Registering Communal Rights in Ghana, Mozambique, and Tanzania |
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2.1 Unit Costs of Surveying Community Land Boundaries in Ghana, Mozambique, and Tanzania2.2 Legalizing and Registering Communal Rights in Mexico; Experience with Systematic Registration of Individual Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa; Impacts of Land Rights Documentation on Agricultural Investments and Productivity; Notes; References; 3 Land Reforms for Reducing Poverty in Rural and Urban Areas; Experiences with Redistributing Agricultural Land; 3.1 Redistributing Agricultural Land in Malawi and South Africa |
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3.1 Impacts of Malawi's Pilot Community-Based Rural Land Development Project, 2005-09Experiences with Regularizing Land Tenure in Urban Informal Settlements; 3.2 Land Tenure Regularization Experiences in Kenya, Lesotho, and Tanzania; Reforming Land Rental Markets to Provide Land Access to the Poor and Promote Transformational Growth; Land Reforms and Interventions Promoting Gender Equity; 3.3 Government Intervention and Rental Markets in Ethiopia and Uganda; 3.4 Successful Land Reforms and Women's Land Rights in Ethiopia and Rwanda; Notes; References |
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4 Land Administration for Good Governance and Conflict ManagementManaging Conflict by Building Competent and Impartial Institutions for Resolving Land Disputes; Strengthening Governance and Property Rights by Improving Land Acquisition Laws and Procedures; 4.1 Land Acquisition and Compensation in Ghana; Strengthening Management of Public Land and Reducing Corruption by Creating Inventories of Government Land; 4.2 Challenges and Opportunities for State Land Inventories to Improve Land Management in Ghana and Uganda |
| Summary |
This is the first book on land administration and reform in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is highly relevant to all developing countries around the world. It provides simple practical steps to turn the hugely controversial subject of "land grabs" into a development opportunity by improving land governance to reduce the risks of dispossessing poor landholders while ensuring mutually beneficial investors' deals. The book shows how Sub Saharan Africa can leverage its abundant and highly valuable natural resources to eradicate poverty by improving land governance through a ten point program to scale up policy reforms and investments at a cost of USD 4.5 billion. The book points out formidable challenges to implementation including high vulnerability to land grabbing and expropriation with poor compensation as about 90 percent of rural lands in Sub Saharan Africa are undocumented, but also timely opportunities since high commodity prices and investor interest in large scale agriculture have increased land values and returns to investing in land administration. It argues that success in implementation will require participation of many players including Pan-African organizations, Sub Saharan Africa governments, the private sector, civil society and development partners; but that ultimate success will depend on the political will of Sub Saharan Africa governments to move forward with comprehensive policy reforms and on concerted support by the international development community. Its rigorous analysis of land governance issues, yet down-to-earth solutions, are a reflection of Byamugisha's more than 20 years of global experience in land reform and administration especially in Asia and Africa. This volume will be of great interest to and relevant for a wide audience interested in African development, global studies in land, and natural resource management |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Land reform -- Government policy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Land tenure -- Government policy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Economic development -- Government policy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business.
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NATURE -- Natural Resources.
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Economic development -- Government policy
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Land reform -- Government policy
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Land tenure -- Government policy
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
World Bank.
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| LC no. |
2012049799 |
| ISBN |
9780821398111 |
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0821398113 |
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