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land governance assessment framework

Selod, Harris, Deininger, Klaus W, Burns, Anthony (Anthony F.)

2012,2011

Overview

Seventy-five percent of the world's poor live in rural areas and most are involved in agriculture. In the 21st century, agriculture remains fundamental to economic growth, poverty alleviation, and environmental sustainability. The World Bank's Agriculture and rural development publication series presents recent analyses of issues that affect the role of agriculture, including livestock, fisheries, and forestry, as a source of economic development, rural livelihoods, and environmental services. The series is intended for practical application, and hope that it will serve to inform public discussion, policy formulation, and development planning. Increased global demand for land because of higher and more volatile food prices, urbanization, and use of land for environmental services implies an increased need for well-designed land policies at the country level to ensure security of long-held rights, to facilitate land access, and to deal with externalities. Establishing the infrastructure necessary to proactively deal with these challenges can require large amounts of resources. Yet with land tenure deeply rooted in any country's history, a wide continuum of land rights, and vast differences in the level of socioeconomic development, the benefits to be expected and the challenges faced will vary across and even within countries, implying a need to adapt the nature and sequencing of reforms to country circumstances. Also, as reforms will take time to bear fruit and may be opposed by vested interests, there is a need to identify challenges and to reach consensus on how to address them in a way that allows objective monitoring of progress over time. Without this being done, the chances of making quick progress in addressing key land policy challenges are likely to be much reduced. The Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) is intended as a first step to help countries deal with these issues. It is a diagnostic tool that is to be implemented at the local level in a collaborative fashion, that addresses the need for guidance to diagnose and benchmark land governance, and that can help countries prioritize reforms and monitor progress over time.

• Publisher: World Bank,The World Bank
• Subject: ACCESS TO LAND / ACCOUNTABILITY / AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY / AGRICULTURE / ALLOCATION OF LAND / ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES / AQUACULTURE / AUDITS / AUTONOMY / BETTERMENT LEVIES / CAPACITY BUILDING / CAPITAL GAINS / CARBON / CARBON EMISSIONS / CITIES / CLIMATE / CLIMATE CHANGE / COMMON PROPERTY / COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES / COMPENSATION / CORPORATE GOVERNANCE / DEBT / DECENTRALIZATION / DEFORESTATION / DEGRADATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES / DEVOLUTION / ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS / ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT / ECONOMIC GROWTH / ECONOMICS / EMPIRICAL BASIS / ENTITLEMENTS / ENVIRONMENTAL / ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS / ETHNIC GROUPS / EVASION / EXTERNALITIES / FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY / FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION / FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT / FINANCIAL MARKETS / FINANCIAL SERVICES / FINANCIAL SYSTEMS / FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS / FISCAL POLICY / FISHERIES / FOOD POLICY RESEARCH / FOREST / FORESTRY / FORESTS / FUEL / GLOBAL INTEREST / Governance / HOUSING / INCOME / INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS / INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK / INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS / Land / LAND ADMINISTRATION / Land claims / LAND MANAGEMENT / LAND OWNERSHIP / LAND RESOURCES / LAND RIGHTS / LAND TAXATION / LAND TENURE / LAND USE / LAND USE PLANNING / Land use, Rural / LAWS / Legal aspects / LEGAL FRAMEWORK / LEGISLATION / LICENSES / LOCAL GOVERNMENT / LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY / LOCAL GOVERNMENTS / LOCAL LEVEL / Management / MANDATES / MARKET PRICES / MIGRATION / MUNICIPAL FINANCE / MUNICIPALITIES / NATURAL RESOURCE / NATURAL RESOURCES / NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES / PARTNERSHIP / PASTORALISTS / PASTURE / PASTURES / PENALTIES / POLICY DECISIONS / POLICY ENVIRONMENT / POLICY MAKERS / POLITICAL ECONOMY / POLITICAL POWER / POPULATION GROWTH / POVERTY REDUCTION / PRIVATE SECTOR / PRODUCTIVITY / PROPERTY RIGHTS / PROPERTY TAX REVENUE / PROPERTY TRANSFERS / PROPERTY VALUES / PUBLIC / PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION / PUBLIC ECONOMICS / PUBLIC EXPENDITURE / PUBLIC GOOD / PUBLIC GOODS / PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS / PUBLIC INVESTMENT / PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE / PUBLIC LAND / PUBLIC LANDS / Public lands -- Management / Public management / PUBLIC OFFICIALS / PUBLIC POLICY / PUBLIC PROVISION / PUBLIC SECTOR / PUBLIC SERVICES / PUBLIC SPENDING / PUBLIC UTILITIES / Regional planning / RESOURCE ALLOCATION / RESOURCE MANAGEMENT / RESOURCE USE / REVENUE MOBILIZATION / REVENUE SOURCES / ROADS / RURAL DEVELOPMENT / RURAL LIVELIHOODS / SETTLEMENTS / SLUMS / STATE LANDS / STATE OWNERSHIP / STREAMS / SUBSIDIARY / SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT / SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT / SUSTAINABLE USE / TAX / TAX REVENUE / TAX REVENUES / TAXATION / Territorial disputes / TIMBER / TRANSACTION COSTS / TRANSPARENCY / TRANSPORT / UNEMPLOYMENT / URBAN AREAS / URBAN LAND MANAGEMENT / URBAN PLANNING / URBANIZATION / WATERS
• ISBN: 0821387596, 9780821387580, 0821387588, 9780821387597