كتاب
Statutory recognition of customary land rights in Africa: an investigation into best practices for lawmaking and implementation
| العنوان: | Statutory recognition of customary land rights in Africa: an investigation into best practices for lawmaking and implementation Customary land rights in Africa |
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| المؤلفون: | Knight, Rachael S. |
| المساهمون: | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Legal Office., Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Legal Office, issuing body. |
| بيانات النشر: | Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2010. |
| سنة النشر: | 2010 |
| وصف مادي: | xiv, 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| سلاسل: | FAO legislative study FAO legislative study |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Africa., Customary law -- Africa., Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure -- Africa., Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Botswana., Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Mozambique., Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Tanzania. |
| الوصف: | "Given the recent trend of granting vast areas of African land to foreign investors, the urgency of placing real ownership in the hands of the people living and making their livelihood upon lands held according to custom cannot be overstated. This study provides guidance on how best to recognize and protect the land rights of the rural poor. Protecting and enforcing the land rights of rural Africans may be best done by passing laws that elevate existing customary land rights up into nations' formal legal frameworks thereby making customary land rights equal to documented land claims. This publication investigates the various over-arching issues related to the statutory recognition of customary land rights. Three case studies of land laws in Botswana, Tanzania and Mozambique are analysed extensively in content and implementation, concluding with recommendations and practical considerations on how to write a land law that recognizes and formalizes customary land rights. It cautions lawmakers that even excellent laws may, in their implementation, fall prey to political manipulation and suggests various oversight and accountability mechanisms that may be established to ensure that the law is properly implemented, the land claims of rural communities are protected, and the legislative intent of the law is realized"--P. [4] of cover. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Land tenure security in the context of legal pluralism -- Botswana's Tribal Land Act -- Mozambique's land law -- Tanzania's Village Land Act -- Analysis of the case studies. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn712176675 ocn709669853 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-92-5-106728-4 92-5-106728-7 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-300). Also freely available online. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.012772133.9 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9789251067284 9251067287 |
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