Book review: Land Tenure and Security

Security of Land Tenure Today

Urbanization, land tenure security and vector-borne Chagas disease.

Modern cities represent one of the fastest growing ecosystems on the planet. Urbanization occurs in stages; each stage characterized by a distinct habitat that may be more or less susceptible to the establishment of disease vector populations and the transmission of vector-borne pathogens. We performed longitudinal entomological and epidemiological surveys in households along a 1900 × 125 m tra...

Land Tenure in Hydropower Development: a Review

Land tenure issues such as tenure forms and its allocation and land acquisition procedure are not extensively considered in hydropower development. As a result hydropower projects are not sustainable. The main aim of the study is to find the role of land tenure in hydropower development. Desk study is carried out and is followed by the scientific literature review. The study reveals that the co...

Land Governance and Security of Tenure in Developing Countries

3 his White Paper was produced by the Land Tenure and Development Technical Committee, co-chaired by a representative from the Development Policy Directorate in the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and a representative from the French Development Agency. It is the distillation of numerous debates, discussions and consultations held over the course of 2007 and 2008 between French ...

Improving access to land and tenure security POLICY

Enabling poor rural people to overcome poverty Improving access to land and tenure security Policy Enabling poor rural people to overcome poverty