Fair Land Governance

by Otto, Jan Michiel; Hoekema, Andre

• ISBN13: 9789087281366
• ISBN10: 9087281366
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-15
• Publisher: Leiden Univ Pr

Summary

The 'project' may be large-scale agriculture, industry, bio fuels, forest conservation, urban sprawl, or transnational land-grabbing by countries insecure in food and energy resources. Can such peasants be empowered with 'papers'? Individual land titling has not been a 'silver bullet', as Hernando de Soto once suggested. So, if not private property, then what? Five legal experts who believe in adaptation to local conditions share their experiences and work with local people, take their needs seriously, respect their ways of managing land, make good use of the legal system and opt for simple but robust registration systems.

Author Biography

Jan Michiel Otto is professor of Law and Governance in Developing Countries at Leiden University, and director of the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Development. Andr Hoekema is professor of Legal Pluralism at the University of Amsterdam.

Table of Contents

Legalising Land Rights, Yes But How? An Introduction	p. 7
Simple Solutions to Complex Problems: Land Formalisation as a 'Silver Bullet'	p. 31
Securing Land Rights in Africa - Trends in National and International Law	p. 57
From State to People's Law: Assessing Learning-By-Doing as a Basis of New Land Law	p. 85
Future Cadastres	p. 111
If Not Private Property, Then What? Legalising Extra-Legal Rural Land Tenure via a Third Road	p. 135
About the Authors	p. 181
Index	p. 185
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