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Land Tenure and Property Rights in Pakistan
The author’s argue that rural discontent over chronic poverty, corruption, and the failure of the government to foster development is widespread in Pakistan and that land tenure and property rights are one aspect of these problems. Post-independence Pakistan has retained a feudal system of land...
Land Tenure Security: Shared Management of Common Property Sylvo pastoral resources in Niger
This article attempts to present a practical as well as theoretical overview of the current land tenure situation in Niger. West Africa.
Land Tenure, Gender and Globalization: Research and Analysis from Africa, Asia, and Latin America

Drawing from field research in Cameroon, Ghana, Viet Nam, and the Amazon forests of Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru, this book explores the relationship between gender and land, revealing the workings of global capital and of people’s responses to it. A central theme is the people’s resistance to...

Land, law & Islam: Property and human rights in the Muslim World. .

In this pioneering work, Siraj Sait and Hilary Lim address Islamic property and land rights drawing on a range of socio-historical, classical and contemporary debates and their practice. They address the significance of Islamic theories of property and Islamic land tenure regimes on the “webs of...

Land, Water and Gendered Nobilities in Pakistan: Exploring the Contradictions
Landless women, hopeless women? Gender, land and decentralisation in Niger
This paper is a summary of a regional case study on gender, land and decentralisation. The main study has two parts: three portraits of women showing different examples of access to natural resources and local leadership; and a general report based on the portraits and on interviews carried out in...
Landmines and Land Rights in Southern Sudan

This publication provides a number of distinct perspectives from which to explore the connections between humanitarian mine action, post-conflict land rights and livelihoods in Southern Sudan.

 

Law, Power and Politics in Niger: Land Struggles and the Rural Code

Lund’s study demonstrates the complex, controversial and permanently negotiable nature of land rights in rural areas.

Laws and practices relating to women’s inheritance rights in Nigeria: an overview
The Nigerian legal system can best be described as a hot-potch of Nigerian legislation, English law, customary law (including Islamic law) and judicial precedents; a system of federal and state courts, legislative power at the federal, state and local government levels,  The complex...
Learning about Social Change: A Research and Evaluation Guidebook Using Female Genital Mutilation as a Case Study

Interest curtailing the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) has increased in the past 20 years. Although the political and legal environment towards the practice is more hostile, this awareness has yet to translate itself to measurable changes in prevalence. At the local level activities...