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Securing Africa’s land for shared prosperity

Byamugisha, Frank F. K

2013

Overview

This book covers land administration and reform in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is highly relevant to all developing countries around the world. It provides simple, practical steps to turn the hugely controversial subject of \"land grabs\" into a development opportunity by improving land governance to reduce the risks of dispossessing poor landholders while ensuring mutually beneficial investors' deals. This book shows how Sub-Saharan Africa can leverage its abundant and highly valuable natural resources to eradicate poverty by improving land governance through a ten point program to scale up policy reforms and investments at a cost of USD 4.5 billion. Formidable challenges to implementation are discussed. These include high vulnerability to land grabbing and expropriation with poor compensation, as about 90 percent of rural lands in Sub-Saharan Africa are undocumented, as well as timely opportunities since high commodity prices and investor interest in large scale agriculture have increased land values and returns to investing in land administration. The book argues that success in implementation will require participation of many players including Pan-African organizations, Sub-Saharan Africa governments, the private sector, civil society and development partners. Ultimate success will depend on the political will of Sub-Saharan Africa governments to move forward with comprehensive policy reforms and on concerted support by the international development community.

• Publisher: THE WORLD BANK,World Bank,World Bank Publications,The World Bank,Washington, DC: Agence Française de Développement and the World Bank
• Subject: ACCESS TO LAND / Africa, Sub-Saharan / Afrika südlich der Sahara / Agrarreform / AGRICULTURAL LAND / AGRICULTURAL LANDS / AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION / AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY / AGRICULTURE / ARABLE LAND / Armutsbekämpfung / BIODIVERSITY / Boden (Produktionsfaktor) / Bodenpolitik / Bodenrecht / Bodenreform / CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS / COMMERCIALIZATION / COMMON PROPERTY / COMMONS / COMMUNAL GROUPS / COMMUNAL LAND / COMPENSATION / DECENTRALIZATION / Direktinvestition / ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT / Economic development -- Government policy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan / Eigentumsverhältnisse / EMPLOYMENT / Entwicklungspolitische Strategie / FARMLANDS / FOREST / FOREST RESOURCES / FORESTRY / FORESTRY LAW / FORESTS / FUEL / GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION / GOVERNMENT LANDS / Government policy / HOUSING / IMPROVED LAND / Investment / LABOR MARKETS / LAND ACQUISITION / LAND ADMINISTRATION / LAND AGENCIES / LAND DEVELOPMENT / Land economics / LAND GRABBING / LAND HOLDINGS / LAND INFORMATION SYSTEMS / LAND LAW / LAND MANAGEMENT / LAND MARKETS / LAND OWNERSHIP / LAND PARCELS / LAND POLICY / LAND PRICES / LAND RECORDS / LAND REDISTRIBUTION / LAND REFORM / Land reform -- Government policy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan / LAND REFORMS / LAND REGISTERS / LAND REGISTRATION / LAND RENTAL / LAND RIGHTS / LAND TENURE / Land tenure -- Government policy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan / LAND TENURE SECURITY / LAND TENURE SYSTEMS / LAND TITLES / LAND TITLING / LAND USE / LAND USE PLANNING / LAND USERS / LAND USES / LAND VALUATION / Landkonflikt / LANDLESSNESS / LANDOWNER / LANDOWNERS / LANDOWNERSHIP / Landverteilung/Landumverteilung / LAWS / LEGAL FRAMEWORK / LEGAL PROVISIONS / LEGISLATION / LOCAL ADMINISTRATION / LOCAL GOVERNMENTS / MEDIATION / MIGRATION / MUNICIPALITIES / NATURAL RESOURCES / OPERATING COSTS / PASTURE / PRIVATE PROPERTY / PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS / PRODUCTIVITY / PROPERTY RIGHTS / PUBLIC LAND / PUBLIC LANDS / PUBLIC SERVICES / REFORESTATION / REGULATORY FRAMEWORK / RETURN ON INVESTMENT / RURAL LAND USE / RURAL LIVELIHOODS / SITES / SOIL / SOIL CONSERVATION / SQUATTER / SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS / SQUATTERS / STATE INTERVENTION / Sub-Saharan Africa / Subsahara-Afrika / SUBSIDIARY / TAX COLLECTION / TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE / TRANSACTION COSTS / TRANSPORT / URBAN DEVELOPMENT / URBAN LAND / URBAN LAND USE / URBAN MIGRATION / URBANIZATION / WAGES / WETLANDS / Zugang zu natürlichen Ressourcen/Umweltgütern
• ISBN: 9780821398104, 0821398105, 9780821398111, 0821398113