‘Best Practice’ Options for the Legal Recognition of Customary Tenure

By Daniel Fitzpatrick. 2005

251 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. K. Deininger
2. G. Schoneveld
3. D. Ali
4. Stein T. Holden
5. G. Feder
6. T. Yamano
7. Laura German
8. E. Mwangi

In Global and Planetary Change

1. K. Deininger
2. D. Ali
3. G. Feder
4. Stein T. Holden
5. E. Mwangi
6. D. W. Bromley
7. T. Yamano
8. G. Schoneveld

In Soil Science

1. K. Deininger
2. D. Ali
3. G. Schoneveld
4. G. Feder
5. Stein T. Holden
6. D. W. Bromley
7. T. Yamano
8. L. Cotula

Citations in the corpus

• Formalising property relations in the developing world: The wrong prescription for the wrong malady (2009, background): “Fitzpatrick (2005) has written in a similar vein regarding the case for formalisation.”
• Land grab or development opportunity? Agricultural investment and international land deals in Africa. (2009, background): “As some have argued, “where the primary source of tenure insecurity is outsider encroachment, the best legal response is to recognise and enforce local group rights, and (where it does not cause undue conflict) to demarcate and record certain lands in the name of that group” (Fitzpatrick, 2005).”
• Legal Knowledge and Economic Development: The Case of Land Rights in Uganda (2006, background): “In fact, such limitations have led to problems related to gender discrimination (Khadiagala 2001, Tripp 2004), wealth bias (Goetz 2002, Peters 2004), and corruption (Fitzpatrick 2005).”
• Land Registration, Governance, and Development : Evidence and Implications for Policy (2009, background): “For a discussion of institutional options see Fitzpatrick (2005) and for a detailed example of legislative arrangements to put this in practice see Government of Mexico (2000).”
• Rural Land Certification in Ethiopia: Process, Initial Impact, and Implications for Other African Countries (2007, background): “To respond to such demands, ways to protect communal land rights have been actively explored (Fitzpatrick 2005) and many African countries passed innovative legislation aiming to assist in doing so.”
• Contemporary processes of large-scale land acquisition in sub-Saharan Africa: legal deficiency or elite capture of the rule of law? (2013, background): “Those advancing these critiques have proposed more endogenous policy reform processes cognizant of the weaknesses of extant administrative capacities; ensuring women’s customary rights are assured during land registration and titling processes; making provisions for registering collective titles; ma”