Journal of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives

State and public land tenure arrangements define rules for the distribution, use and protection of publicly vested lands. Authorities or customary owners may act as custodians of common property resources or of environmentally or culturally sensitive sites on behalf of society. Despite the growing recognition of the importance of state lands and their proper management, public land and property assets are generally weakly managed. Considered as “free” and available, state lands are commonly encroached upon, over utilized and inappropriately acquired. Undefined tenure arrangements and poor recording of land rights contribute to the ineffective management of public lands, providing fertile ground for corrupt practices. There are no simple solutions for improvement. However, progress has been made by improving transparency, consistency, impartiality and equity in land administration institutions and by enhancing their technical competences and clarifying their management objectives, i.e. by improving the governance of state and public lands.

• Compulsory acquisition of land and compensation
• Is the market value a fair and objective measure for determining compensation for compulsory acquisition of land?
• Path of least resistance: a human rights perspective on expropriation
• The epistemology of value in the assessment of just terms compensation
• The assessment of compensation in compulsory land acquisition of oil- and gas-bearing lands in the Niger Delta
• Distinctive criteria for previous compensation to real property expropriation in Argentina
• Compensation in compulsory purchase of residential property in Belarus
• Land valuation issues of expropriation applications in Turkey

• Good governance in land administration and land tenure
• Good governance in land administration projects: project preparation, project implementation, and capacity building
• Good governance in public land management
• Property rights registration system reform in Georgia for good governance in land tenure and administration
• Addressing good governance in the process of privatization and restitution of agricultural land during the German reunification process

• Insécurités foncières et trajectoires de sécurisation: illustrations ouestafricaines
• Livestock policies, land and rural conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa
• La réforme foncière de Madagascar ou le pari de la compétence locale
• Concertación participativa para el desarrollo territorial en Huancavelica: un ejemplo en los Andes centrales peruanos
• Processus d’élaboration et de mise en oeuvre du Code Rural au Niger – Bilan et perspectives
• Descentralización y reforma de la tierra: la experiencia de la FAO
• Access to resources: the dynamics of land tenure in Gallura (Sardinia, Italy)
• Les conflits de frontière intra et intercommunaux au Bénin: replis identitaires et communalité contestée

• The dynamics of customary land tenure and natural resource management in Darfur
• Sécurité, insécurités, et sécurisation foncières: un cadre conceptuel
• Strategic communication for land registration projects: a case study from El Salvador
• Dependencia financiera: un problema de las organizaciones de productores. El caso de UNORCA
• Les ventes de terre et l’appropriation foncière au Mali: les pratiques foncières entre la tradition, le marché et les procédures légales
• Instituting good governance in the land administration system – the Philippines’ perspective
• The National Agricultural Land Development Programme in Nigeria: impact on farm incomes in Oyo and Osun States
• Some socio-economic consequences of the green revolution