Property rights and rural justice

7 reasons for land and property rights to be at the top of the global ...

Secure land rights are essential for urban development. In 1950, about two-thirds of the global population lived in rural settlements and one- ...

Rural and Racialized: How Property Law Perpetuates ... - LPE Project

Thus, it is critical to understand not only how property law has historically constructed these patterns of racial difference but also the role ...

Adverse possession of rural property: the Superior Court of Justice ...

In order to realize the right to ownership of rural property, the economic and rational exploitation of the land is a prerequisite that cannot be ...

Private property rights and presumptive policy entitlements

Under existing property regimes farmers must be induced with financial concessions to use land in socially desired ways. Under an alternative property rights ...

Property Rights for Poverty Reduction? - DESA Publications

But if the access to justice does not precede or accompany the formalization of property rights, then the ... Rural Land Certification in Ethiopia: Process, ...

Policy & Law - Rural Studies - Library at South College

These include property rights, water rights, environmental regulations, agricultural laws, land use planning, and rural crime. ... Legal deserts threaten justice ...

Women in Half the World Still Denied Land, Property Rights Despite ...

“As urbanization continues to increase, land rights are an issue for all those living in cities as well as in rural areas.” With so much at ...

Initiative on Land, Housing & Property Rights - Boston College

Property in the form of homes and land represents the cornerstone of wealth for Black and brown communities. Too often, this ownership is unstable, second-class ...

Land Tenure, Property Rights, and Gender | LandLinks

The economic benefits of land apply to both rural and urban land. When title to informal urban settlements is secured, families are able to make structural ...

4 Property and Land Rights Issues, Explained through Videos

In much of Africa, however, rural farmers and communities lack secure property rights. Many are losing their land to government, investors ...

Land and Property Rights - Millennium Challenge Corporation

Land and Property Rights contribute to poverty reduction and economic growth by ensuring secure access to land and more efficient land markets.

Research on Realization Mechanism of Land Value-Added Benefit ...

In the process of urban-rural Integration, the reform of the “separation of three rights” of homesteads has released huge institutional ...

Shaping legal and institutional pluralism: land rights, access to ...

It shows how laws regulating traditional authority and mining together paint a veneer of legality over mining deals that in fact infringe on the land rights of ...

Land Tenure, Property Rights, and Rural Economic Development in ...

In general, property rights in conjunction with equitable administrative and judicial systems can be a boon to a country's rural development ...

Success on the horizon? New efforts to increase rural access to justice

A desert or a land of opportunity? What's in a name? A lot, says Emy López, director of local bar relations and access to justice at the ...

Enhancing Women and Girls' Land Rights in Rural Sierra Leone

Issues of land ownership, tenure, and inheritance rights are therefore crucial to virtually every rural household. But these issues are bound up in a system of ...

Land and Property Rights

FACILITATORS' NOTES 4: property rights, agricultural production ... Courts may be far from rural areas, and people ... Access to water, justice and human rights.

The Impact of Land Property Rights Interventions on Investment and ...

Secure land tenure enables farmers to invest in long-term improvements to their farms and soils in the expectation that they will reap the ...

Land Rights and the Rule of Law - World Justice Project

A major arena for successful pro-poor rule of law reform has been the provision of secure land rights for the rural poor. The bulk of the ...

Defining Land Justice in Rural California: How Equity Policy Can ...

Racial disparities in rural land ownership reflect the ongoing impacts of both colonial-era property dispossession and modern farm loan and investment ...