Legalising Land Rights : Local Practices, State Responses and Tenure Security in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Intro -- Contents -- 1. Legalising land rights in Africa, Asia and Latin America: An introduction -- 2. Peasants and agrarian reforms: The unfinished quest for secure land rights in Ethiopia -- 3. Land rights and tenure security: Rural land registration in Ethiopia -- 4. Securing land rights in Ghana -- 5. Tree plantations, agricultural commodification, and land tenure security in Ghana -- 6. Legalising customary land tenure in Ghana: The case of peri-urban Kumasi -- 7. Land tenure reform and tenure security in Namibia -- 8. Regulating or deregulating informal land tenure? A Namibian case study on the prospects of improving tenure security under the Flexible Land Tenure Bill -- 9. Land reform in Senegal: l'Histoire se répète? -- 10. Tenure security in the periphery of Ziguinchor: The impact of politics and social relations -- 11. Land tenure in Bolivia: From colonial times to post-neoliberalism -- 12. Problems undermining the titling and tenure security of common-property lands: The case of indigenous people of Bolivia's lowlands -- 13. Land tenure and tenure regimes in Mexico: An overview -- 14. A case study on the implementation and outcomes of the 1992 reforms on the Mexican agrarian property institutions: An ejido in the frontier of the urbanisation process -- 15. Land reform and tenure security in China: History and current challenges -- 16. Land loss and conflict in China: Illustrated by cases from Yunnan province -- 17. Peri-urban land tenure legalisation: A tale of two districts -- 18. Land law in Indonesia -- 19. Land registration programmes for Indonesia's urban poor: Need, reach, and effect in the kampongs of Bandung -- 20. The mystery of formalising informal land tenure in the forest frontier: The case of Langkawana, Lampung, Indonesia -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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