This book provides a significant contribution to the literature on land reform in various African contexts. While the economic evidence is clear that secure property rights are a necessary condition for catalysing broad-based economic development, the governance process by which those rights are secured is less clear. This book details the historical complexity of land rights and the importance of understanding this history in the process of trying to improve tenure security. Through a combination of single country case studies, comparative case studies and regional comparisons, the book is unequivocal that good governance is paramount for improving the performance of land reform programmes. All attempts at moving towards more formal secure tenure require congruence with informal norms, beliefs and values, and a set of clear systems and processes to avoid corruption and unintended negative consequences.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 24, 2022).
Contents
Chapter 1. Caught in Between Policies: The Intertwined Challenges of Access to Land and Housing in Gaborone, Botswana
Chapter 2. Understanding minority land rights in Africa: The complexities of Mbororo land rights and its implementation contradictions in the northwest region of Cameroon
Chapter 3. -State actors and land governance in the DR Congo: The trap of the human rights-led approach towards land tenure
Chapter 4. Land Governance in Ethiopia: Challenges Facing Small Landholders
Chapter 5. Developing hybrid institutions for land governance: explaining divergent trajectories in Ghana
Chapter 6. Land reform legacies and contemporary struggles for land in Morocco
Chapter 7. High levels of tenure security in Namibias informal settlements, yet residents challenged to upgrade living conditions
Chapter 8. Land Governance in Zambia: Confronting the Challenges of an Unsettled Dynamic Equilibrium in Land Administration
Chapter 9. State-Based Tenure in Zimbabwe: Is it Retrogressive or a Panacea for Agrarian Underdevelopment
Chapter 10. Challenges of Land Tenure Reform in the Land Grabs Era: The case of Zimbabwe
Chapter 11. Land reform in Zimbabwe: implications for land restitution
Chapter 12. The complexity of Litigating Ancestral Land Rights in Namibia
Chapter 13. South African Land Expropriation without Compensation; A Threat to Botswana Food Security
Chapter 14. tenure and airports building in Cote dIvoire and Senegal
Chapter 15. Security of land tenure informing land reforms in Africa from a historical to current trajectory of land reform: Comparative analysis of Ethiopia and Zambia
Chapter 16. Land Governance as a Restitutive Mechanism for Asserting Ownership and Tenure Rights in a Postcolonial Context: Insights from Namibia and Ghana
Chapter 17. Land Governance and Tenure Reform in Southern Africa
Chapter 18. Access to land to foreigners in West Africa: analysis in the context of land acquisition and new land policy era
Chapter 19. Comparative Discussion of Land Tenure: South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya and Ghana
Chapter 20. Evaluating the legitimisation of land wars as a form of organised crime: a review through secondary document analysis.
ISBN
9783030828523 ((electronic bk.))
3030828522 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
1290840475
Doi
10.1007/978-3-030-82852-3
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