Land Law Reform in Eastern Africa: Traditional or Transformative?

McAuslan, Patrick

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“…They marked a significant continuity with colonial policies that started to promote the creation of land markets, and the demise of customary land tenure in favour of that based on individualisation. 28 This argument is resonant with another work, by Ambreena Manji, who maintains that in Africa the emphasis on neoliberal land reforms shifted the focus from land redistribution to tenure reforms, from politics to law, with the effect of depoliticising the debate and neutralising alternative paths of reform. 29 Under the advice of international organisations, foreign governments and mainstream NGOs, Uganda embraced the pro-market approach anchored in the pre-eminence of property rights.…”

Section: Pillars Of Food Security Policies In Ugandamentioning

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Food sovereignty as praxis: rethinking the food question in Uganda

Martiniello

2015

Third World Quarterly

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This article critically reflects upon conceptual and analytical questions that affect the practical implementation of food sovereignty in Uganda, a country often labelled as the potential breadbasket of Africa. It proposes to look at the integration of food and land-based social relations in the context of localised and historical-geographical specificities of livelihood practices among Acholi peasants in northern Uganda as a way to ground the concept. It argues that many of the organising principles at the core of the food sovereignty paradigm are inscribed in the socio-cultural and ecological practices of peasant populations in northern Uganda. Yet these practices are taking place in an increasingly adverse national and international environment, and under circumstances transmitted from the past, which enormously challenge their implementation and jeopardise the future of food security and sovereignty prospects for peasant agriculture. Emerging debates on food sovereigntyThe global food crisis of 2008 generated a throng of food riots across the global South, as consumers increasingly confronted volatile food supplies and skyrocketing prices. 1 Although the crisis affected developing countries differentially, by the year's end the emergency had raised food import bills by an average of 37%, 2 ultimately adding another 75 million people to the ranks of the hungry and 125 million to the category of extreme poverty. 3 Various explanations have been given for this price volatility. They include the rise of middle class demands; changing diets in countries like Brazil, India and China; and the associated growing demand for animal feed, energy security, and mitigation of climate change. Though significant, these explanations represent only partial readings of the crisis, to which we should add speculation in commodity futures (financialisation of the food sector), conversion of farmland *

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Section: Pillars Of Food Security Policies In Ugandamentioning

confidence: 87%

Food sovereignty as praxis: rethinking the food question in Uganda

Martiniello

2015

Third World Quarterly

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“…The findings of Goodfellow's comparison of the impacts of planning law in Rwanda and Uganda (Goodfellow,14) and McAuslan's examination of the impacts of similar urban planning laws in the countries of East Africa (McAuslan, 2013); shows that Land use regulation, also sometimes referred to as urban development regulations or controls, are rules which indicate how land in particular areas can be used and developed (Goodfellow, 2014). Land use regulations serve the purpose of restricting development in order to give effect to urban plans.…”

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Determination of The Major Challenges of Compliance to Set Standards for Establishment of Petroleum Filling Stations in Anambra State

2020

JEES

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Considering the high level of non-compliance of petroleum filling stations to the set standards by DPR, NESREA and the Anambra State Physical Planning Board/Local Authorities, this study emerged to determine the major challenges of compliance to set standards for establishment of petroleum filling stations by the petroleum filling stations in Anambra State. This study adopted the survey research design. This involved the use of well-structured questionnaire(s) to generate data by ascertaining first-hand information from the general public (nonprofessionals) and professionals in town planning and development control. 60 professionals and 400 households were sampled. The mean cut-off of 3.0 was calculated from the adopted 5-point likert scale to ascertain the major challenges. After harmonizing the opinion of the Professionals with those of the general public (Non-Professionals), the main challenges to compliance with set standards in the study area were found to include the following: Scarcity of land, Fear of relocation from original business site, Construction or expansion of roads after the petrol station has been constructed, Competition for business sites/spaces, High cost of land, Difficult land acquisition processes, Corruption of law enforcement agents, Improper urban planning, Ignorance of the after effects of activities by the developers, Failure of the Government to properly monitor activities of the filling stations and Godfathering and inequity in enforcing the set standards. The study thus recommended that: there should be strict monitoring of the development control practices and agencies by the government; Scaling down the requirements to be met by developers before land is acquired to aid easy relocation in the case of business expansion will aid compliance; review of standards that are inconsistent with the present day need of urban development will make the present day developers more compliant to these standards. Also ensuring free and fair judgment on all concerned regardless of who owns the petroleum filling station or who is involved (primacy to the rule of law), will restore discipline and enhance compliance. KEYWORDS: Challenges of compliance, set standards for establishment of petroleum filling stations.

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“…While fractions of the government recognised these factors as causes, neoliberal agendas prioritised by donors have insisted on the paramount importance of land titling for land tenure security. The same blueprint was applied to several African countries, in a "third-wave" of land law reforms aimed at strengthening private property rights by negotiating with neocustomary systems (McAuslan 2013;Manji 2006). In the conditionality regime of the mid-1990s, the agenda of formalisation of land rights prevailed over the political priority of democratising the land tenure system.…”

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Village land politics and the legacy of ujamaa

Greco

2016

Review of African Political Economy

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The paper explores the question of whether Tanzanian villages and their institutional and political legacies can provide a legal and locational alternative to the individualisation of land. It presents ethnographic data on village politics collected in Tanga, Morogoro and Mbeya region over a time span of seven years (2007 to 2014). It is divided in three sections. The first considers the ujamaa legacies on Tanzanian village administrative and political institutions and the political weight of past top-down politics, especially in handling dissent at the village level. In the second section, village land politics are investigated under the light of the reform of the land laws (1999), to then underline the role of village authorities in collective land claims in Tanga regionan area of historical land dispossession then; and to illustrate how village land allocations occur in practice. The third section analyses data from three villages in Kilombero district, to reflect on the salience of village land politics and Village Land Use Plans.

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Land Law Reform in Eastern Africa: Traditional or Transformative?

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Food sovereignty as praxis: rethinking the food question in Uganda

Food sovereignty as praxis: rethinking the food question in Uganda

Determination of The Major Challenges of Compliance to Set Standards for Establishment of Petroleum Filling Stations in Anambra State

Village land politics and the legacy of ujamaa

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