Community land formalization and company land acquisition procedures: A review of 33 procedures in 15 countries

Notess, Laura ^[3] ; Veit, Peter ^[1] ; Monterroso, Iliana ^[4] ; Andiko, ^[5] ; Sulle, Emmanuel ^[2] ; Larson, Anne M. ^[4] ; Gindroz, Anne-Sophie ^[6] ; Quaedvlieg, Julia ^[7] ; Williams, Andrew ^[8]
1. [1] World Resources Institute
  
  World Resources Institute
  
  Estados Unidos
2. [2] University of the Western Cape
  
  University of the Western Cape
  
  City of Cape Town, Sudáfrica
3. [3] Centre for Law and Democracy, Canada
4. [4] Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Peru
5. [5] AsM Law Office, Indonesia
6. [6] Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), Indonesia
7. [7] International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Netherlands
8. [8] National Forestry Authority, Uganda
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Localización: Land use policy: The International Journal Covering All Aspects of Land Use, ISSN 0264-8377, ISSN-e 1873-5754, Nº. 110, 2021
Idioma: inglés
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- Indigenous and community lands, crucial for rural livelihoods, are typically held under informal customary tenure arrangements. This can leave the land vulnerable to outside commercial interests, so communities may seek to formalize their land rights in a government registry and obtain an official land document. But this process can be time-consuming and complex, and in contrast, companies can acquire land relatively quickly and find shortcuts around regulatory burdens. This article reviews and maps 19 community land formalization and 14 company land acquisition procedures is 15 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Comparing community and company procedures identifies multiple sources of inequity.