Land Grabbing, Tenure Security and Livelihoods in Kenya

Security of Land Tenure Today

Sanitation investments in Ghana: An ethnographic investigation of the role of tenure security, land ownership and livelihoods

BACKGROUND Ghana's low investment in household sanitation is evident from the low rates of improved sanitation. This study analysed how land ownership, tenancy security and livelihood patterns are related to sanitation investments in three adjacent rural and peri-urban communities in a district close to Accra, Ghana's capital. METHODS Qualitative data was gathered for this comparative ethnogr...

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 ...

Mining mountains: neoliberalism, land tenure, livelihoods, and the new Peruvian mining industry in Cajamarca

Peru has been transformed over the course of the past decade into a neoliberal, mineral-based, export-oriented, country. The author evaluates the neoliberal transformation of the country in three parts. First he examines the economic and political transformation of the country in the early 1990s, particularly in terms of how the Peruvian state and economy were rapidly restructured according to ...

Global land and water grabbing.

Societal pressure on the global land and freshwater resources is increasing as a result of the rising food demand by the growing human population, dietary changes, and the enhancement of biofuel production induced by the rising oil prices and recent changes in United States and European Union bioethanol policies. Many countries and corporations have started to acquire relatively inexpensive and...