Land Fictions

Land Fictions
Author: D. Asher Ghertner
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2021-03-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1501753746

Land Fictions explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity. It interrogates global patterns of property formation, the dispossessions property markets enact, and the popular movements to halt the growing waves of evictions and land grabs. This collection brings together original research on urban, rural, and peri-urban India; rapidly urbanizing China and Southeast Asia; resource expropriation in Africa and Latin America; and the neoliberal urban landscapes of North America and Europe. Through a variety of perspectives, Land Fictions finds resonances between local stories of land's fictional powers and global visions of landed property's imagined power to automatically create value and advance national development. Editors D. Asher Ghertner and Robert W. Lake unpack the dynamics of land commodification across a broad range of political, spatial, and temporal settings, exposing its simultaneously contingent and collective nature. The essays advance understanding of the politics of land while also contributing to current debates on the intersections of local and global, urban and rural, and general and particular. Contributors Erik Harms, Michael Watts, Sai Balakrishnan, Brett Christophers, David Ferring, Sarah Knuth, Meghan Morris, Benjamin Teresa, Mi Shih, Michael Levien, Michael L. Dwyer, Heather Whiteside

Tribal Land Systems

Tribal Land Systems
Author: Harshad R. Trivedi
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1993
Genre: Gujarat (India)
ISBN: 9788170224549

Study on the tribal areas of Gujarat, India.

Agricultural Land Redistribution and Land Administration in Sub-Saharan Africa

Agricultural Land Redistribution and Land Administration in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Frank F. K. Byamugisha
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2014-05-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1464801894

Agricultural Land Redistribution and Land Administration in Sub-Saharan Africa: Case Studies of Recent Reforms focuses on “how” to undertake land reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa, but with relevant lessons for other developing countries. It provides details, with case studies, on how reforms were undertaken to address a pressing and controversial development challenge in Africa – land ownership inequality – and an intransigent development issue – inefficiency and corruption in land administration. An equally important contribution of the book is assessing reforms and highlighting valuable lessons for other countries contemplating reforms. The six case studies collectively cover two main areas of land governance: reforms in redistributing agricultural land and reforms in land administration. The first two case studies discuss reforms in redistributing agricultural land in Malawi and South Africa, part of the southern Africa region where land ownership inequalities rival those in Latin America. The remaining case studies, four in number, are focused on addressing corruption and inefficiency in land administration in a variety of contexts of governance including stable and post-conflict countries. The case studies cover: • Decentralizing land administration with demonstrations from Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Ghana; • Developing post-conflict land administration systems with examples from Liberia and Rwanda; • Re-engineering and computerizing land information systems with examples from Ghana and Uganda; and • Improving management of government land through land inventories with examples drawn from Ghana and Uganda. The common elements between sometimes disparate experiences provide lessons of relevance to African and other developing countries contemplating similar reforms. The rigorous analysis and yet down-to-earth lessons of experience are a reflection of the authors’ deep global experience underpinned by personal participation in the reforms covered by the book. This volume will be of interest to a wide audience including land specialists and practitioners, African policy makers, experts and managers in the international development community, and the academia.

Land Reform

Land Reform
Author: United States. Agency for International Development. Office of Agriculture and Fisheries
Publisher:
Total Pages: 62
Release: 1970
Genre: Land reform
ISBN:

Land Reforms in India

Land Reforms in India
Author: Pramoda Kumāra Agravāla
Publisher: M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788185880099

The book 'Land Reforms in India : Constitutional and Legal Approach' is a landmark in the field of land reforms. It explores many new and important facts and principles of laws on the subject which are universally applicable. The author discovered a mathematical formula to concretize the concept of 'land reforms' and successfully applied it in his statistical study of implementation of land reforms in India with special reference to State of Uttar Pradesh. There is an imperative need to implement the land-laws in true spirit and with determination.

Land, Women, Youths, and Land Tools or Methods

Land, Women, Youths, and Land Tools or Methods
Author: Uchendu Eugene Chigbu
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2021-02-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3039439537

This book is a collection of Special Issue articles that aim to discern a people-centered pathway to solving land-based challenges in the context of land administration. It consists of 13 positively evaluated research articles. Each of the articles contributes to the large mosaic of knowledge on land methods (or tools) that are relevant to resolving land challenges that women and youths face. The book highlights 13 critical lessons on “Land, Women, Youths, and Land Tools or Methods.”

Land Law

Land Law
Author: Elizabeth Cooke
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2012-06-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199653232

Written by the Law Commissioner responsible for land law, this second edition is an invaluable resource for students new to the subject. It provides a clear overview of the subject, details key cases, and offers both a clear explanation of how the law works and insights into how property lawyers think.