By prioritising land law reform and receiving strong support from external funding agencies, the post-civil warRwanda became the first African country to complete land registration throughout its territory. Land
Rwanda, which is one of the most densely populated countries in Africa, introduced a land law in 2005 that prohibited sub-division of land into units less than one ha. However, they found that the average farm size is 0.72 ha and that 90% of the farm plots are less than one ha. ...
The aim of the present paper was to examine the existence and patterns of systematic within-country inequalities in effective land rights in Rwanda. While a large qualitative literature discusses the comparative land rights of different groups, there is a lack of systematic quantitative evidence on ...
as possible prior to state/donor surveying of land (Hall, 2013:122), and has been criticised for being prohibitively expensive and excessively bureaucratic (Stanfield and Bloch, 2002:3;Augustinus and Benschop, 2003).Manji (2006)argues that the reformation of land law in post-independence Africa,...
Lessons from Rwanda – and RCMRD’s role in mainstreaming them Emmanuel Nkurunziza Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Kenya Strategies for increasing property tax revenue in Lagos, Nigeria Taiwo Oyedele Government of Nigeria, Nigeria Decentralization, digitization, and rec...
our complete case analysis leads to exclusion of other countries such as Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Uganda and for datasets conducted post 2015 given that these datasets may not hold data on key variables. For example, malaria control in Democratic Republic of Congo does not includ...
The Basic Act on Biodiversity established in 2008 was the first law in Japan to preserve biodiversity. It stipulates the responsibilities of not only the national government, but also local governments and private organizations, to make efforts to formulate and implement the conservation and ...
Indonesia and Rwanda.69 However, there have also been criticisms concerning the Bank systematically favouring individual over communal tenure,70 and controversy and disputes in countries including Cambodia, Panama71 and the Philippines,72 though the Bank has sometimes taken effective steps to resolve inju...
In Tajikistan, IWA is an annual volume of irrigation water received by farmers through water allocations, while the water allocations is a series of water distribution processes that consist of regulations and rules documented and guided by the “Water Code,”“WUA Law” as well as community-base...
When cash crops become dominant the status is generally changed and this seems to be the case in most areas. The traditional land tenure systems are also under pressure due to national legislation. Since 1960, the Basic Agrarian Law provided that: • Who farmed the land could also own it....