Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa

• Tác giả: Daniel Ayalew Ali
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 581.96 Specific topics in natural history of plants
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2016
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 307223
• Chủ đề: 1. ACCESS TO LAND; 2. CUSTOMARY LAW; 3. FAIR MARKET VALUE; 4. FAMILY LAW; 5. FEMALE

Tóm tắt

 Although recent developments have increased interest in African land tenure, Rwanda's nation-wide Land Tenure Regularization (LTR) program is one of a few models to address these issues at the required scale. An impact evaluation of this program highlights four main effects
  namely, 1) significant and large investment impacts that are particularly pronounced for women
  2) improved land access for legally married women and better recordation of inheritance rights
  3) a reduction in the probability of having documented land ownership for legally unmarried women
  and 4) a reduction in land market activity rather than distress sales. A primary reason for the Government of Rwanda to initiate LTR was to increase levels of land tenure security. LTR also demonstrated a major impact on inheritance related knowledge and awareness. Authors found a significant increase in the likelihood that landholders in the program areas would now know who would inherit their parcel.