Fair Land Governance —— How to Legalize Land Rights for Rural Development

----- 公平土地治理。 如何使土地权利合法化以促进农村发展

ISBN: 9789087281366 出版年：2011 页码：191 Leiden University Press

These farmers have been working this land for generations. But they have no papers. So the government may clear this land for a project. People fear they will be chased away.鈥?Such stories can be heard every day in Africa, Asia and Latin America. They demonstrate the insecurity of rural smallholders who are threatened with eviction without proper compensation. The 鈥榩roject鈥?may be large-scale agriculture, industry, bio fuels, forest conservation, urban sprawl, or transnational land-grabbing by countries insecure in food and energy resources. Can such peasants be empowered with 鈥榩apers鈥? Five legal experts who believe in adaptation to local conditions share their experiences and work with local people, take their needs seriously, respect their ways of managing land, make good use of the legal system and opt for simple but robust registration systems.