By applying a unified framework, this book examines the impact of land tenure reforms on poverty reduction and natural resource management in countries in Africa and Asia with highly diverse historical contexts. These land tenure reforms include Land-to-the-tiller policies, Market assisted land...

This chapter explores how East Asian states integrate customary claims to land into statutory land tenure systems. Studies show that state-centered land systems, which connect legal recognition of property rights to state territorial authority, often fragment and subordinate customary possessory...

Chapter 1. Outline of the Institutions for Farmland Transactions in Traditional China -- Chapter 2. The Types of Farmland Property Rights -- Chapter 3. The Farmland Property Transaction System: A Study Centering on Dian -- Chapter 4. The Transformation of Farmland Rights Transactions from the...