Fair Land Governance: How to Legalise Land Rights for Rural Development - Couverture souple

9789087281366: Fair Land Governance: How to Legalise Land Rights for Rural Development

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9087281366 ISBN 13 : 9789087281366

Editeur : Leiden University Press, 2011

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These farmers have been working this land for generations. But they have no papers. So the government may clear this land for a project. People fear they will be chased away. Such stories can be heard every day in Africa, Asia and Latin America. They demonstrate the insecurity of rural smallholders who are threatened with eviction without proper compensation. The 'project' may be large-scale agriculture, industry, bio fuels, forest conservation, urban sprawl, or transnational land-grabbing by countries insecure in food and energy resources. Can such peasants be empowered with 'papers'? Five legal experts who believe in adaptation to local conditions share their experiences and work with local people, take their needs seriously, respect their ways of managing land, make good use of the legal system and opt for simple but robust registration systems.

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� propos de l?auteur

Jan Michiel Otto is professor of law and governance in developing countries at Leiden University, and director of the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Development.|Andr� J. Hoekema is professor of legal pluralism at the University of Amsterdam.

� propos de la quatri�me de couverture

These farmers have been working this land for generations. But they have no papers. So the government may clear this land for a project. People fear they will be chased away. Such stories can be heard every day in Africa, Asia and Latin America. They demonstrate the insecurity of rural smallholders who are threatened with eviction without proper compensation.

The project may be large-scale agriculture, industry, bio fuels, forest conservation, urban sprawl, or transnational land-grabbing by countries insecure in food and energy resources. Can such peasants be empowered with papers? Individual land titling has not been a silver bullet, as Hernando de Soto once suggested. So, if not private property, then what? Five legal experts who believe in adaptation to local conditions share their experiences and work with local people, take their needs seriously, respect their ways of managing land, make good use of the legal system and opt for simple but robust registration systems.

- Jan Michiel Otto is professor of Law and Governance in Developing Countries at Leiden University
- Andr� J. Hoekema is professor of Legal Pluralism at the University of Amsterdam

� propos de la deuxi�me de couverture

These farmers have been working this land for generations. But they have no papers. So the government may clear this land for a project. People fear they will be chased away. Such stories can be heard every day in Africa, Asia and Latin America. They demonstrate the insecurity of rural smallholders who are threatened with eviction without proper compensation. The project may be large-scale agriculture, industry, bio fuels, forest conservation, urban sprawl, or transnational land-grabbing by countries insecure in food and energy resources. Can such peasants be empowered with papers? Individual land titling has not been a silver bullet, as Hernando de Soto once suggested. So, if not private property, then what? Five legal experts who believe in adaptation to local conditions share their experiences and work with local people, take their needs seriously, respect their ways of managing land, make good use of the legal system and opt for simple but robust registration systems. - Jan Michiel Otto is professor of Law and Governance in Developing Countries at Leiden University - Andr� J. Hoekema is professor of Legal Pluralism at the University of Amsterdam

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