Indigenous governments in Canada are increasingly authorized to adopt laws that convert communally held lands to individual fee simple. They will convert title to fee simple in order to obtain the economic benefits commonly associated with private ownership and its securitization. However,...

The strengthening of land rights has been proposed as a policy to reduce financial market frictions and promote private investment in low and middle income countries. But assessments of these potential effects have proven inconclusive. One reason may be that research has focused on actors that...

This research is conducted to contribute to the currently ongoing policy debate on the benefits of collective vis-à-vis individual land tenure rights. The paper attempts to explore the Mozambican community land delimitation (CLD) program based on a community-level survey conducted in...

South Africa’s transition to democracy was followed by an extensive programme of land reform whose major objectives were, inter alia, to eradicate injustices of racially based dispossessions; to promote a more equitable distribution of land ownership; to reduce poverty and to promote economic...

This article undertakes a comparative analysis of the South African labour tenancy contract and the Malawian tenant worker’s contract in the context of the land law reform programme instituted in both countries. Historically, both contracts represent mechanisms for access to otherwise...