Title: Land tenure and international investments in agriculture : a report

Place: Rome

Publisher: Committee on world food security

Year: 2011

Journal: HLPE report

Volume: 2

PAGE: --

Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: land titles, land acquisition, local government, governance, small farms, land rights

Abstract: Measures to strengthen local land rights in the face of global land grabbing include recognition of local land rights and devolution of land management responsibilities to local government, with accountability mechanisms, such as in Tanzania‘s Village Land Act of 1999, and in Senegal.

URL: http://www.iss.nl/fileadmin/ASSETS/iss/Documents/Research_and_projects/HLPE_land_grab_final_report_July_2011.pdf

Document type: Portal