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Land conflict, gender and agricultural production : a case of Apac district, northern Uganda
(Master thesis, 2016-08-12)This study explores the extent and causes of land conflict at the local community level. It also investigates genders aspects in relation to women position in land holding, transaction and inheritance, and winners and ... -
Land consolidation cases relating to grazing arrangements
(CLTS Working paper;02/21, Working paper, 2021)Land consolidation courts deal with cases where the relationship between holders of grazing rights needs be regulated, but also where the rights holders are competing with other potential land uses, such as building holiday ... -
Land consolidation in Norway : a study of a multifunctional system
(Master thesis, 2008)Land consolidation is “a sequence of operations designed to reorganise land parcels in an area, regrouping them into consolidated holdings of more regular form and with improved access […], which is intended to provide ... -
Land contention as an obstacle to peace : the effect of multinational corporations and the palm oil industry on the Colombian conflict
(Master thesis, 2014-02-19)In 2012 the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla commenced peace talks for the first time in many years. This thesis looks at the Colombian land struggle from its earliest stages to understand the roots of the ... -
Land cover classification of treeline ecotones along a 1100 km latitudinal transect using spectral- and three-dimensional information from UAV-based aerial imagery
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The alpine treeline ecotone is expected to move upwards in elevation with global warming. Thus, mapping treeline ecotones is crucial in monitoring potential changes. Previous remote sensing studies have focused on the usage ... -
Land cover segmentation of airborne LiDAR data using stochastic atrous network
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Inspired by the success of deep learning techniques in dense-label prediction and the increasing availability of high precision airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data, we present a research process that compares ... -
Land distribution in Northern Ethiopia from 1998 to 2016 : gender-disaggregated, spatial and intertemporal variation
(CLTS Working paper;2017:3, Working paper, 2017)This study utilizes land registry data from the First and Second Stage Land Registration Reforms that took place in 1998 and 2016 in sampled districts and communities in Tigray region of Ethiopia. Tigray was the first ... -
Land grabbing for jatropha bio-fuel in Ghana : assessing the impact on households' livelihood in northern Ghana
(Master thesis, 2015-08-03)The research focus on the impacts of large scale production of jatropha cultivation for bio-fuel and it effects it has on the local farmers in their access to land, ensuring food security and their livelihoods in the four ... -
Land markets and agricultural household decisions nexus in Malawi
(PhD Thesis;2020:71, Doctoral thesis, 2020)The general trend of agricultural land in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to tilt towards land scarcity emanating from farm household-level population pressure and increase in urbanisation rates. Understanding the ... -
Land policy reform : the role of land markets and women's land rights in Malawi
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Land policy reform and land rental markets in Ethiopia : equity, productivity and welfare implications
(PhD Thesis;2010:24, Doctoral thesis, 2010)The land holding system in most developing countries is not purely an economic affair. It is very much intertwined with people’s culture and identity. That is partly why land-related issues usually generate intense emotional ... -
Land reform and populism : amending South Africa's constitution
(Master thesis, 2020)Land reform is a highly contentious issue in post-apartheid South Africa. Immediately after apartheid ended, the new African National Congress (ANC) government, on advice from the World Bank, adopted a willing buyer-willing ... -
Land registration and tenure structure in slum areas in the city of Manila, Philippines
(Master thesis, 2015-08-05)There are many countries in the world facing problems of proper land registration, securing property rights and tenure security in informal settlements. It is particularly developing countries that face these kinds of ... -
Land rental as a complementary income source for land-poor youth
(CLTS Working paper;6/18, Working paper, 2018)Continued high population growth in already densely populated rural areas in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa makes it harder for youth to choose agriculture as their main source of income. We investigate whether near landless ... -
Land rental markets, investment and productivity under customary land tenure systems in Malawi
(PhD Thesis;2009:3, Doctoral thesis, 2009)As customary land tenure remains the predominant model of landholding in rural Africa and land the cornerstone of rural livelihood security, improving land tenure security is often equated with integration of customary ... -
Land Tenure and Social Relations in Matrilineal and Uxorilocal Societies in Malawi
(CLTS Report;1/23, Report, 2023-03)This paper is about social relations in customary lands for the matrilineal uxorilocal culture of the Lomwe, Nyanja and Yao tribes in Southern Malawi. The study was carried out in the districts of Chiradzulu and Phalombe. ... -
Land tenure in the highlands of Eritrea : economic theory and empirical evidence
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Land tenure in Tigray : how large is the gender bias?
(CLTS Working paper;2013:5, Working paper, 2013)This study finds that female-headed households have 23% smaller owned landholdings and 54% smaller operational landholdings. Differences in characteristics such as age, labor, oxen and previous divorce explain less than ... -
Land use and travel behavior in small cities
(PhD thesis;2018:67, Doctoral thesis, 2018)Research on the relationship between land-use and travel behavior has been at the forefront of finding solutions to the ever-growing challenges of energy demand and urban pollution associated with transportation. However, ... -
Land valuation and perceptions of land sales prohibition in Ethiopia
(CLTS Working paper;2014:12, Working paper, 2014)This study investigates attitudes towards legalizing land sales and Willingness to Accept (WTA) sales prices and compensation prices for land among smallholder households in four different areas in the Oromia and SNNP ...