The authors currently work for the tenure reform group within the South African Department of Land Affairs. Their paper provides an overview of South African land reform policy, its scope (redistribution, restitution, tenure reform), milestones in the institutional development of the Department of Land Affairs, and institutional issues that still have to be resolved.

Paper at the Stakeholder Workshop on the National Land Policy, Harare, Zimbabwe

Report of consultation of NGOs on land policy advocacy. Covers advocacy, policy and law, and designing a framework for effective land policy advocacy.

2-page sheet covering overview of the debate, key issues in decision-making, tenure reform, redistributive land reform, key literature. Purpose is to provide decision-makers with an easy and up to date point of reference, designed for those managing change. Aims to distil theoretical debate and field experience so it becomes easily accessible and useful. Lists organisations with relevant expertise, including Oxfam GB.

List of NGOs and other organisations engaged in land issues in Southern and Eastern Africa.

Provides brief summary of the 9 chapters of the full Report.

The full Report, covering evolution of land policy and law, overview of land problems, current land tenure systems, systems of inheritance and land administration, settlement of land disputes, towards a new land policy and legal framework, and strategy for policy development.

Analyses the analyses made of The Land Act, 1999, and The Village Land Act, 1999, by Issa Shivji and Liz Wily. Includes engaging with the ministry, a national debate, lessons for civil society, genuine decentralisation, the next steps, and what lessons for Oxfam. Has an appendix of articles on the Acts.

Describes how the Land Campaign (Campanha Terra) emerged and was organised, its objectives and messages, and the materials produced.

This workshop brought together 75 practitioners from all over Africa. This regional survey covers tenure problems in West Africa, state policy and the problem of tenure security, pilot land use management schemes, and future issues and prospects.

Paper given at the DFID Workshop on Land Tenure, Poverty and Sustainable Development in sub-Saharan Africa, at Sunningdale, Berkshire.

Article from his regular column in The African, in which Shivji discusses villagisation, land grabbing, village titling, dispute settlement, and radical title. Argues that MPs should be given a free vote of the Land Bills.

Issa Shivji is Professor of Law at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Executive Director of the Land Rights Research and Resources Institute (LARRRI) or Hakiardhi (in Swahili). He is an acknowledged authority on land law in Africa and chaired the 1991-2 Presidential Commission of Enquiry into Land Matters. Here he examines the new Land Acts, including fundamental principles, land administration and allocation, village titling, land grabbing, dispute settlements, gender, youth and children, and concludes with the ’virtues’ of the Acts.

The author formerly worked for the regional organisation ZERO. This regional survey covers a number of sustainable development issues and future challenges for Southern Africa.

Reviews land tenure reform on communal land against the background of the repossession of private land occupied by white settlers. The purpose and scope of the proposed tenure reform in the former homelands of are described, as are attempts by South Africa’s neighbours to resolve tenure problems in their communal areas.

This workshop brought together 75 practitioners from all over Africa. Professor Okoth-Ogendo, Professor of Public Law at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, gave a regional view of recent trends in East Africa, looking at land policy in East African history, trends in land policy development, and land policy changes in the 21st century.

This workshop brought together 75 delegates from governments, NGOs and research institutions and universities from all over Africa. Report covers consultation, process, legislation, tenure, titling, race in Southern Africa, donors, the World Bank, corruption, the future.

Looks at criteria for assessing the bills, problems of definition, alienation of land, titling and management of village land, dispute settlement, and validation of villagisation.

Paper presented to the Parliamentary Committee for Finance and Economic Affairs Workshop on the Bills for the Land Act and the Village Land Act, Dodoma

Work commissioned by Oxfam GB to learn lessons from the experiences of villagisation in Ethiopia, Mozambique and Tanzania to help policy makers in Rwanda, where villagisation is now official policy.

Covers the background, the numbers of people affected, the absence of a coordinated and planned approach, difficulties with the demarcation and titling process, demarcation procedures, the need for gender sensitivity, and compensation.

Research on land tenure insecurity on the Zambian Copperbelt in the context of the privatisation of the mines was commissioned by Oxfam, and was carried out in August 1998 and the final report written in November 1998. It contains five sections: background (including historical and legal); problems (including ‘back to the land’, conflicts in the forests, squatters, Lands Act 1995, democracy); case studies (Chingola, Kitwe, Mufulira, Solwezi); some questions; recommendations. Report has led to some very positive developments for people affected.

First newsletter from ZERO-Regional Environment Organisation, which has embarked on a 5 year research and advocacy programme on land in Southern Africa. Provides details of the programme and of ZERO’s regional activities.

Summary of issues arising from the SADC Workshop on Land/Resource Tenure and Decentralisation, Johannesburg, 7-9 July 1998. Focuses on introduction to key concepts and terminology, an overview of current trends, and critical policy issues and options.

Presentation on context, trends and lessons in land tenure in Southern Africa written in the form of a series of large-print acetates designed to be of use to others who might find them helpful as explanatory aids.

Short summary of possible different futures on the land, land laws in Uganda and Tanzania, and the work of NGO land alliances.

Covers land grabbing, land titling, land reform, indigenous tenure systems, and NGO responses.

Offers a critique of Mugabe’s land grab in Zimbabwe and examines the contrast between it and developments elsewhere in Southern and East Africa. Attempts to categorise different situations within this area.

Paper at a conference on land reform in Zimbabwe – the Way Forward, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Examines women’s land and property rights in Kenya, Sudan and Ethiopia. Considers the legal and other impediments hindering these rights in situations of conflict and reconstruction. Outlines the practical problems faced by women in connection with the legal and traditional structures regarding land and property rights, and makes some suggestions about how the situation can be rectified.

Includes background, tenure arrangements, women and land tenure, customary marriages, the land issue after apartheid, criticisms of the legislation, the relationship of land legislation to customary law, recommendations.

Based on a case study of gender relations and land rights in Ndixe village, Marracuene district, southern Mozambique. Structured into: women are disadvantaged in the post-war struggle for land; most women in Mozambique depend principally on subsistence agriculture, and then on access to land, to ensure their livelihoods; women have only secondary land rights under a resurgent customary law, but the rules may be changing; women have equal land rights to men under formal law, but most rural women are ignorant of these rights and hardly make use of them.

An analysis of the style and content of Oxfam GB’s land advocacy work in Tanzania and Uganda, with some detailed history of Oxfam’s involvement in both countries.

An analysis of the style and content of Oxfam GB’s land advocacy work in Tanzania and Uganda, with some detailed history of Oxfam’s involvement in both countries.

Looks at property rights and returnees, the situation of women in relation to property rights, consequences of women’s lack of access to land, initiatives taken by national authorities to improve women’s property rights, and initiatives taken by UNHCR.

Examines the situation of ongoing crisis in Burundi, the socio-economic characteristics of displaced and refugee women, numbers of displaced and returnee women, and the state of inheritance. Concludes that customary inheritance law should follow the same evolution as civil law and recognise the right of daughters to inherit property in the same way as brothers.

Includes legal civil rights, property rights, customary land laws, legal reforms, problems of traditional land tenure, the thinking behind the Eritrean Government’s Land Proclamation, its basic tenets and the process of implementing it.

Published as a pamphlet by the Uganda Land Alliance, this focuses on customary tenure and its conversion into titled land and the relevant rules to be applied. It suggests law makers lack interest in customary tenure.

Paper presented at Karamoja Wildlife workshop organised by Wildlife Authority.

306 page literature survey of books, articles, theses, workshop and conference reports covering Southern and Eastern Africa, divided by country and by theme (land tenure, land reform, land and pastoralists, land and women, land misc). Introduction covers rationale and structure of the survey, current context, major trends, key texts, and key authors.

Julian Quan works at NRI, but is also a part-time land tenure adviser to DFID. This short paper looks at redistributive reforms, customary tenure, land tenure reforms, a way forward for smallholder tenure, criteria for land reform interventions.

Declaration issued at the end of a workshop intended for discussion by the public. Participants agreed to form a coalition, the National Land Forum. Contains a critique of the Bill for the Land Act, focusing on radical title, classification of land, the authority of administrators, accountability, acquisition of land by foreigners, grabbing of village land, adjudication, titling and registration, gender equality and land, dispute settlement machinery.

Covers new integrated approach and new partnerships, new laws, some setbacks to land claims, targeting of church and unused land for redistribution, tenure reform, and developments with project partners.

Urges East African governments to learn from each other and from further afield, and to engage seriously with their people. warns of the danger of foreign ownership of land and that passing laws which further marginalised the poor will breed serious social conflict in the future.

Divided into 4 sections: land policy in the context of political and economic reform (Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique); land redistribution (Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa); land tenure and title (Kenya); facilitating land reform: governments, NGOs and academics (South Africa).

A new electronic version of a classic, influential and still relevant 1995 LTC study of land tenure in Zambia, which was conceived in response to the lack of data on which to guide policy decisions for liberalising the land market. The 8 chapters cover legal framework and administration of land policy; land administration processes and constraints; agrarian structure, land markets and property transfers; land valuation and taxation; land tenure and agricultural development in customary areas – results from Eastern and Southern Provinces; settlement programs; land use patterns and growth in commercial input use, productivity and profitability by farm size category; Zambia’s agricultural data system – a review of the agricultural time series data.

Reviews recent experiences of land reform in the Philippines, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

A study of land reform in Zimbabwe during the first decade of independence reissued here because of its striking relevance to current controversies. Asks why the issue of land reform, apparently so burning at the time of independence, went so quickly off the political agenda, only to be revived in 1989 as an election approached and the 10-year Lancaster House agreement was about to expire. Examines the roles of the Zimbabwean and British Governments, their different perceptions and quarrels, and that of the Commercial Farmers’ Union. Mentions the issues of under-utilized land and a possible land tax. Assesses the first decade of the resettlement programme, including a very positive ODA review. Concludes that Zimbabweans will probably have to wait much longer for land reform.

Includes introduction; the nineteenth century; the era of peasant prosperity, 1890-1908; the white agricultural policy, 1908-14; the economic triumph of European agriculture, 1915-25; the political triumph of European agriculture, 1926-36; conclusion. Some of this also appears in the author’s long out of print book, Land and Racial Domination in Rhodesia, Heinemann, 1977