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Indigenous Peoples’ Perspectives on Land, Property and Ownership: A Case Study of the Munduruku Peoples’ Fragmentation and Integration in Human Rights Law: Users Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Do students support equal rights to land and inheritance?: Reflections from Bangladesh KU Leuven
The issue of inheritance rights in Bangladesh is a debatable one, given the many laws provided in different religions and varied interpretations of these. This study is focused on assessing students perceptions about gender equality with respect to inheritance of land. Primary data were collected from university students in Bangladesh using Simple Random Sampling (SRS)technique. Binary Logistic Regression (BLR) was used to assess research ...
Property Rights and Productivity: The Case of Joint Land Titling in Vietnam KU Leuven
© 2015 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. This paper explores the effect of land titling on agricultural productivity in Vietnam and the productivity effects of single versus joint titling for husband and wife. Using a plot-fixed-effects approach our results show that obtaining a land title is associated with higher yields, for both individually and jointly held titles. We conclude that there is no trade off between ...
Children's rights and the capability approach: discussing children's agency against the horizon of the institutionalised youth land Ghent University
Land tenure; balancing social rights and investment opportunities Ghent University
Peasant frontiers as a research strategy : peasant resilience and the reproduction of common land rights Ghent University
Struggles over property rights in the context of large-scale transnational land acquisitions University of Antwerp
A key issue in the context of increasing large-scale land acquisitions in developing countries is how poor populations can prevent their land rights being encroached upon by more powerful actors. To date, the majority of policy recommendations have been directed towards the legal recognition and formalization of land rights in order to safeguard local and historical land rights holders, as well as towards the design and implementation of ...
Towards innovative geospatial tools for fit-for-purpose land rights mapping KU Leuven
© Authors 2017. CC BY 4.0 License. In large parts of sub Saharan Africa it remains an ongoing challenging to map millions of unrecognized land rights. Existing approaches for recognizing these rights have proven inappropriate in many cases. A new generation of tools needs to be developed to support faster, cheaper, easier, and more responsible land rights mapping. This is the main goal of its4land, an European Commission Horizon 2020 project ...