Guiding Principles:
Land Tenure in Development Cooperation

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Orientierungsrahmen:
Bodenrecht und Bodenordnung

 
Deutsche Gesellschaft
für Technische Zusammenarbeit
Abt. 45 / Div. 45

 

Julia Eckert, Georg Elwert (1996):
Land Tenure in Uzbekistan

Table of Contents

Introduction
Methodology
1 The legal and institutional framework
1.1 The design of the land law
1.2 Problematic laws
1.3 Missing regulations.
1.4 Property rights in the "Adat", the customary law
1.5 The formal institutions of the land reform at local level
1.6 Monitoring
2. Forms of land rights
2.1 "Thirty km into the desert" - the plots which are privatised
2.2 The founding of Dehkhans
2.2.1 "Those who can work": Criteria for determining qualified applicants
2.2.2 Obstacles to the foundation of Dehkhans
2.3 The shareholdings
2.4 Shirkat
2.4.1 Land quality and target yields.
2.4.2 Criteria for obtaining a lease
2.4.3 The division of labour
2.4.4 Crop-directives
2.4.5 Duration of the lease.
2.4.6. Shirkat or Shares?
2.5 The family yards
2.6 Gardens
2.7 Conclusions
3. Financial aspects of tenancy
3.1 Water-rights and water-costs
3.2 Rents for land and tools
3.3 Taxes
3.4 Credits
3.5 Transport and marketing
3.6 Corruption
3.7 Conclusions
4. Forms of illegal/unofficial land occupation and dispute settlement
4.1 Dispute settlement
4.2 Nepotism, Corruption and legitimacy in the distribution of land
5. Social effects of the land reform
5.1 The change in the position of women
5.2 Underemployment and unemployment
5.3 Migration and rural exodus.
5.4 Ethnic relations
5.5 Ecological effects of the land reform
6. Summary and Conclusions
7. Suggestions for development co-operation
Literature
Appendix: The Workshop