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oapen-20.500.12657-328782022-04-26T12:25:48Z Fair Land Governance. How to Legalise Land Rights for Rural Development Otto, Jan Michiel Hoekema, André law land tenure sociology Customary law Land law Private property Tanzania bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LA Jurisprudence & general issues::LAQ Law & society 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. 2016-02-04 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:21:28Z 2020-04-01T14:21:28Z 2012 book 595092 OCN: 787844424 9789087281366 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32878 eng Law, Governance, and Development application/pdf n/a 595092.pdf http://www.lup.nl/product/fair-land-governance/ Leiden University Press 10.26530/OAPEN_595092 10.26530/OAPEN_595092 276c53fd-5f1d-4065-9fce-9628863ddca8 9789087281366 open access
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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.
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