TY - BOOK ID - 19333327 TI - Fair land governance : how to legalise land rights for rural development AU - Otto, Jan Michiel AU - Hoekema, A. J. PY - 2012 SN - 9087281366 9786613522757 9400600542 1280118466 9789400600546 9781280118463 PB - Leiden [The Netherlands] : Leiden University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Land use, Rural. KW - Rural development. KW - Land use, Rural KW - Agricultural laws and legislation KW - Rural land use KW - Land use KW - Agriculture KW - Community development, Rural KW - Development, Rural KW - Integrated rural development KW - Regional development KW - Rehabilitation, Rural KW - Rural community development KW - Rural development KW - Rural economic development KW - Agriculture and state KW - Community development KW - Economic development KW - Regional planning KW - Law and legislation. KW - Citizen participation KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19333327 AB - 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.” 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 ‘project’ 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 ‘papers’? 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. ER -