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Formalization without certification? Experimental evidence on property rights and investment

2018

We present evidence from the first large-scale randomized-controlled trial of a land formalization program. We examine the link between land demarcation and investment in rural Benin in light of a model of agricultural production under insecure ...

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Compensation for Expropriated Community Farmland in Nigeria: An In-Depth Analysis of the Laws and Practices Related to Land Expropriation for the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos

In Nigeria, the recurring impoverishment and other negative socioeconomic impacts endured by landholders affected by expropriation are well-documented and call into question the Land Use Act’s (LUA) effectiveness in protecting local land ...

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Reconnaître des systèmes de gestion des droits collectifs de la terre et des ressources naturelles dans des contextes légaux divers

2013

Cet article s’inscrit dans l’effort de synthèse et de réflexion collective organisées par AGTER à partir des études réalisées au Guatemala et au Cameroun sur la gouvernance des forêts et les droits des populations des ...

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Land certification as a substitute or complement to local procedures? Securing rural land transactions in the Malagasy highlands

2018

This text deals with the relationships between land transactions and the formalization of land rights in a Malagasy context, exploring the local procedures aiming at securing land transactions, while putting them in perspective with the legal ...

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Fragmented Territories: Incomplete Enclosures and Agrarian Change on the Agricultural Frontier of Samlaut District, North-West Cambodia

2018

In Cambodia, the interactions between large-scale land investment and land titling gathered particular momentum in 2012–13, when the government initiated an unprecedented upland land titling programme in an attempt to address land tenure ...