Download or read book Customary Land Tenure in Malawi written by D. P. Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1985* with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Changing Dynamics of Customary Land Tenure System in Community Based Rural Land Development Project in Malawi written by Charity Chanza-Chonde and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was carried out to investigate the influence of the new national land policy on the customary tenure system and assess changes in the socio-cultural and economic conditions of matrilineal social system in the Community Based Rural Land Development Project (CBRLDP) in southern Malawi. Specifically it assessed what the new Malawi's land policy stipulates and what is actually practised on the ground regarding inheritance and intra-household resource allocation; identified whether land ownership security influenced household head's incentives to undertake long- term investment on land in support of livelihoods; and assessed changes in the socio-economic situation of beneficiary groups after resettlement and how they were affected by the changes. Mixed methods approach was employed in which both qualitative and quantative data were collected through focus group discussions and a household survey. A checklist and semi-structured interviews were used in focus groups and household survey respectively to collect data. Interviews in focus groups were digitally recorded and transcribed into Word files. Content analysis was employed to analyse qualitative data. Logit regression analysis was used to determine factors that influenced household head's incentive to invest in long-term agricultural enterprise. The study found that in the transitional period (the period between land acquisition and when the land will be transferred to the first generation of daughters) perceptions determine land rights in favour of men. This is because the acquired land is treated as a personal property. However, after the land is passed on to the first generation of female heirs, the acquired land will feed into matrilineal wealth and hence matrilineal rules of inheritance will take over. The study also revealed that land ownership security after resettlement influenced men in this matrilineal social system to invest on land, and that the availability of income from other economic activities enabled them to do so. Women, on the other hand, were not affected by land ownership security because of labour and financial constraints. The study found that when a network of kin from which resettlers receive support is not available, re settlers adapt by seeking help from the next close social grouping that they can identify with. However, this leads to modification ~f traditions. Lastly, the study identified that even though maize production improved after resettlement, lack of alternative income earning activities in the new home led to the overselling of maize to generate income, thereby reducing household food security.

Download or read book Malawi National Land Policy written by Malawi and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Contemporary Customary Land Issues in Africa written by J. Oloka-Onyango and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines current trends in customary land issues in Africa, focusing on the practice of converting customary land into leasehold tenure, particularly in Zambia. Since the enactment of the 1995 Lands Act No. 29 in Zambia, conversion of customary land has become a controversial policy, raising questions about the future of customary land and rural communities, and the role of traditional authorities in a changing environment. Alienating customary land into leasehold tenure has serious implications for local and national politics and gender dynamics. Analysis of these trends suggests that the policy of creating land markets on customary land is subjecting customary systems to the forces of change. However, governments that have adopted this policy have not, by and large, adopted measures to respond to these challenges. Although customary tenure is widely believed to be resilient, it is not clear how the customary system will navigate the current winds of change. Chapters in this book draw from the Land Use and Rural Livelihoods in Africa Project (LURLAP), a collaborative research project undertaken by staff and students at the University of Cape Town and the University of Zambia.

Download or read book Changes in Customary Land Tenure Systems in Africa written by Jean-Pierre Chauveau and published by IIED. This book was released on 2007 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Relationship Between Customary Land Tenure and Resource Management Practices written by Gregory Wilson Myers and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Development Through Dualism written by David E. Sahn and published by Cornell Food & Nutrition Policy Programs. This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Land Tenure and Agricultural Productivity in Malawi written by Carol Wilson Dickerman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Land Custom and Practice in the South Pacific written by R. Gerard Ward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land tenure arrangements are intimately linked with the organization of society, the economy, political structures and geography. In the South Pacific Islands the majority of land is held by community groups under 'customary' or 'traditional' forms of tenure. This book argues that land formerly held in common is now often controlled and used exclusively by individuals or nuclear families - it is being privatized. Detailed case studies demonstrate these trends in Western Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu and Fiji. Parallels are noted from Asia, Europe and Africa, where comparable forces of commercialization, individualization and socio-political change have brought comparable results. The denial of these trends by policy makers in the region reflects an interest in maintaining the image of traditionalism and its associated status and power. The divergence between rhetoric and reality creates dilemmas for many Pacific Islanders and their leaders.

Download or read book Economic Theory and Exhaustible Resources written by P. S. Dasgupta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book on the economics of exhaustible resources requires no justification. A long book does. The purist will find disquieting our two-asset, constant population model with which we analyse growth possibilities in an economy with exhaustible resources.

Download or read book Population Land Tenure and Natural Resource Management written by Frank M. Place and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Quandary of Land Policy Implementation in SADC written by Rafiq Hajat and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Whose Security written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Land Rental Markets Investment and Productivity Under Customary Land Tenure Systems in Malawi written by Rodney Witman Lunduka and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Incidence and Impact of Land Conflict in Uganda written by Raffaella Castagnini and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there is a large, though inconclusive, literature on the impact of land titles in Africa, little attention has been devoted to the study of land conflict, despite evidence on increasing incidence of such conflicts. Deininger and Castagnini use data from Uganda to explore who is affected by land conflicts, whether recent legal changes have helped to reduce their incidence, and to assess their impact on productivity. Results indicate that female-headed households and widows are particularly affected and that the passage of the 1998 Land Act has failed to reduce the number of pending land conflicts. The authors also find evidence of a significant and quantitatively large productivity-reducing impact of land conflicts. This suggests that, especially in Africa, attention to land-related conflicts and exploration of ways to prevent and speedily resolve them would be an important area for policy as well as research. This paper--a product of Rural Development, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to explore the impact of land policies.

Download or read book Country Profiles of Land Tenure written by John W. Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agriculture Diversification and Gender in Rural Africa written by Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the understanding of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa through addressing the dynamics of intensification and diversification within and outside agriculture in contexts where women have much poorer access to agrarian resources than men