The 1999 Tanzania land acts as a community lands approach: A review of research into their implementation

Robin Biddulph

Land Use Policy, 2018, vol. 79, issue C, 48-56

Abstract: In sub-Saharan Africa, securing community lands has often been proposed as an alternative to programmes of individualisation, titling and registration (ITR). Recently, community lands proponents have advocated a hybrid approach incorporating statutory recognition of individualised tenure within community lands. Whether the ideological and practical tensions between communal and individualised approaches can be resolved in a coherent implementable programme remains open to question. The 1999 Land Acts in Tanzania prefigure the hybrid communal lands approach. This article reviews research on their implementation to draw lessons for the approach.

Keywords: Community lands; Individualisation; Titling and registration (ITR); Custom; Tanzania (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.07.036

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