Research Programmes
Land Tenure and Property Rights
This regional research programmes aims to develop a comparative studies on land tenure and markets in Africa . The study is part of a contribution to the literature on land tenure and markets in Africa and will also inform African policy makers involved the design and implementation of land, agrarian and resource policies. The research will investigate the complex forms of tenure relations imposed on rural Africa in relation to the land tenures demanded by various classes and groups, including the landless, the land-short, large scale farmers, women, farm workers and other claimants. Specific research questions on land rights and tenure which will be explored include current efforts to shift property rights towards statutory leaseholds and/or freehold rights, new forms of accessing land, including through patronage secured through ruling lineages, local leaders, state structures, informal 'land markets' and "illegal" land occupations.
Special attention will paid to the salient emergence of different forms of land markets, their operations and effects in both formal private land property tenure regimes and in customary land tenure regimes. The sources of influence to create land markets and their interests, as well as the impacts of land markets on investment, productivity, 'livelihoods' and access to finance will be examined in the wider context of the marginalisation of the rural and urban poor.
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- Land Tenure in Post FTLRP Zimbabwe : Key Strategic Policy Development Issues (Policy Brief)
- The Land Question and Tenure Issues in East and Southern Africa
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