Most of the land in sub-Saharan Africa is governed under various forms of customary tenure.
Over the past three decades a quiet paradigm shift has been taking place transforming the …

This article reviews the past and potential future roles of land tenure reforms and land
markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as responses to population growth in the process of …

This article contributes to the debate on the formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining
(ASM)–low-tech, labour-intensive mineral extraction and processing–in developing …

The implementation of the green economy in Tanzania is currently re-arranging space in
significant ways. The Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) has …

This paper reviews the literature to identify the relationship between tenure security and food
security. The literatures on tenure issues and food security issues are not well connected …

There is a renewed interest in whether land reforms can contribute to market development
and poverty reduction in Africa. This paper assesses effects on the allocative efficiency of the …

This study was part of a larger analysis of the framework of sustainable rural livelihoods in
the face of urban sprawl in peri-urban rural areas of Mali. Contrary to the existing literature …

The global land community has accepted that individual land titling on its own cannot deliver
security of tenure in a complete or timely fashion, and that a continuum of land rights …

An exploration of the relationship between possession and legalization across Indonesia,
and how people navigate dispossession​ The old aphorism" possession is nine-tenths of …

Farmer–herder conflicts in Africa are often presented as being driven by 'environmental
scarcity'. Political ecologists, however, argue that these conflicts should be analysed within a …