Essays about: "Land tenure in security"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 21 essays containing the words Land tenure in security.

1. 16. Assessment of Strategies for Secure Tenure, Tenure Policy and Housing: As Means of Advocating Sustainable Development in Developing Nations

   University essay from Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Mladen Krajisnik; [2011]
   Keywords : Sustainable development; Informal settlement; Low-income; Housing; Urban Upgrading; Slum-upgrading; Security of Tenure; Policies; Strategies; Malawi; Slums; Tenure Policy; Implementation;

   Abstract : The study is shortly presenting the urbanization-saga and the human settlement progression. It then proceeds to identify different types of tenure and the pertained definitions as such. READ MORE

3. 17. Operation Barga: An Exercise in Legal Empowerment? (A qualitative study of sharecroppers (‘bargadar’) and landowners in a West Bengal village)

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Rupsha Dasgupta; [2011]
   Keywords : Operation Barga; bargadar; Legal empowerment of the poor; Commission on the legal empowerment of the poor; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The central premise of this thesis is an analysis of one major land reform programme (Operation Barga) initiated in the Indian state of West Bengal, from the Legal Empowerment of the Poor (LEP) perspective. Specifically, the research question addressed is the role of Operation Barga as a tool in legally empowering the poor bargadar (sharecroppers) and its impact on the landowners, over a period of thirty years, in a West Bengal village. READ MORE

4. 18. The causes of tenure security in rural China and its effect on investments

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Adam Bleser; [2011]
   Keywords : Land rights; tenure security; institutional economics; agricultural economics; China; Hebei; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This paper analyses the causes and effects of tenure security in rural China. Using original survey data gathered in Hebei province in the summer of 2009, it begins by assessing the causes of tenure security among China’s rural landholders. READ MORE

5. 19. Land, property rights, women and food security : a case from Cameroon

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Isaac Ntani Kewong; [2010]
   Keywords : women; land and property rights; land grabbing; food security; statutory laws; customary laws; patriarchy; tenure;

   Abstract : The 2008 world food crisis brought a lot of anguish to many people in the world. The poor in Cameroon weren‟t spared the hit. Reactions from various communities to this crisis varied from one community to another. In the main cities of the country, there were riots and demonstrations. READ MORE

6. 20. Understanding institutional changes for reducing vulnerability to landslides in Chittagong City, Bangladesh

   University essay from Stockholm Resilience Centre

   Author : Ronju Ahammad; [2009]
   Keywords : Formal organisation; informal settlement; institutional change; landslide; land tenure conflict; social vulnerability;

   Abstract : Ineffective hill management policy at the national level and weak enforcement by thelocal authorities has created space for developing many informal settlements alonglandslide prone hillslopes in Chittagong city, Bangladesh. These settlements areconsidered illegal by the formal authorities, the settlers perceive their presence inthose areas as legal occupants, which have caused land tenure conflicts with formalauthorities over the last decades. READ MORE