LANDac Short-term Research Reports

Reports of the short-term research projects carried out under LANDac's small grants programme

 
General
Strengthening land governance for poverty reduction, sustainable growth and food security. Inventory and analysis of programs supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 2007 and 2010.  Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Africa
West Africa. Agrarian change below the radar screen: Rising farmland acquisitions by domestic investors in West Africa: Results from a survey in Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger. Thea Hilhorst (KIT), Joost Nelen, Nata Traoré (SNV) - April 2011
 
Burkina Faso: What strategies do local land users resort to in the face of new land legislation? GRAF
 
Burkina Faso: La loi foncière rurale de 2009 à l’épreuve de stratégies locales d’anticipation au Burkina Faso
 
East-Congo: emerging regulations on land governance in mining areas in a post-conflict setting.  Disaster studies WUR (to be added)
 
Ethiopia: Land to investors: Large-scale land transfers in Ethiopia.  Dessalegn Rahmato (Forum for Social Studies)
 
Madagascar: La Décentralisation de la gestion foncière à Madagascar. Cas des communes rurales de Sahambavy et d'Analavory.  Fiantso Madagascar
 
Rwanda: Impact of the land reform on the land rights and economic poverty reduction of the majority rural, especially women, who depend on land for their livelihood. Rwanda case study.  Rwanda Initiative for Sustainable Development - RISD
 
Senegal: Accountability in land governance: a study into the stakes in Senegal.  IDS UU with Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale (IPAR) from Dakar.    (Powerpoint presentations of the research results - in French - are available here)
 
Uganda:Land grabbing and its effects on the communities in th oil rich Albertine region of Uganda.  Uganda Land Alliance
 
Zimbabwe: Land rights and tenure security in Zimbabwe's Post Fast Track Land Reform Programme. Ruzivo Trust & ASC Leiden

Asia
Cambodia: Land acquisiton by non-local actors and local development: Impacts of economic land concessions on the livelhoods of indigenous people in Northeastern Cambodia. Prachvuthy, M., LandAc, Royal University of Phnom Pen
 
India: Dispossessing Tribals and the Poor from Lands: Land Laws and Administration in Andhra Pradesh, India.  Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad
 
Vietnam: Large-scale agricultural land recovery for economic development: compensation policy and practice. Case studies of: hydropower and urban development projects in Thua Thien Hue province, Vietnam. (to be added)
 
Eastern Europe / Central Asia
 
Large-scale land acquisitions in the former Soviet Union. A study of rural social movements and land conflicts.  Oane Visser & Natalya Mamonova (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands)