Legalising land rights : local practices, state responses and tenure security in Africa, Asia and Latin America / edited by Janine M. Ubink, André J, Hoekema, and Willem J. Assies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-607) and index.

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An incisive study of local land rights in developmental countries with suggestions for a new approach.

Contents; 1. Legalising land rights in Africa, Asia and Latin America: An introduction; 2. Peasants and agrarian reforms: The unfinished quest for secure land rights in Ethiopia; 3. Land rights and tenure security: Rural land registration in Ethiopia; 4. Securing land rights in Ghana; 5. Tree plantations, agricultural commodification, and land tenure security in Ghana; 6. Legalising customary land tenure in Ghana: The case of peri-urban Kumasi; 7. Land tenure reform and tenure security in Namibia.

8. Regulating or deregulating informal land tenure? A Namibian case study on the prospects of improving tenure security under the Flexible Land Tenure Bill9. Land reform in Senegal: l'Histoire se répète?; 10. Tenure security in the periphery of Ziguinchor: The impact of politics and social relations; 11. Land tenure in Bolivia: From colonial times to post-neoliberalism; 12. Problems undermining the titling and tenure security of common-property lands: The case of indigenous people of Bolivia's lowlands; 13. Land tenure and tenure regimes in Mexico: An overview.

14. A case study on the implementation and outcomes of the 1992 reforms on the Mexican agrarian property institutions: An ejido in the frontier of the urbanisation process15. Land reform and tenure security in China: History and current challenges; 16. Land loss and conflict in China: Illustrated by cases from Yunnan province; 17. Peri-urban land tenure legalisation: A tale of two districts; 18. Land law in Indonesia; 19. Land registration programmes for Indonesia's urban poor: Need, reach, and effect in the kampongs of Bandung.

20. The mystery of formalising informal land tenure in the forest frontier: The case of Langkawana, Lampung, IndonesiaReferences; List of Contributors; Index.

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