According to the online database landmarkmap, up an estimated 50% or more of world’s habitable land is held by indigenous peoples and communities. While legal procedural provisions are being made for bureaucratically managing many different types tenure relations in this domain, there continues be a lack tools expertise needed quickly accurately document customary rights. Software hardware that...

The global agendas on land and related issues (including degradation neutrality, New Urban Agenda, climate change, United Nations’ decades ecosystem restoration, Sustainable Development Goals) are vulnerable to being neglected due the current focus eradicating COVID-19 or coronavirus pandemic [...]

In recent years there has been a shift in biodiversity conservation efforts from the confines of enclosed protected areas to a more expansive view of interlinked habitat patches across multiple land tenure types and land uses. However, much work remains on how conservation managers can intervene in such a system to achieve the sustainabil-ity of basic conservation goals. An agent-based model of...

This paper examines the relationship between ethnic heterogeneity and the demand for formal land tenure in urban Tanzania. Using a unique census of two highlyfractionalized unplanned settlements in Dar es Salaam, I show that households located near coethnics are significantly less likely to purchase a limited form of land tenure recently offered by the government. I attempt to address one of th...