Guiding Principles:
Land Tenure in Development Cooperation

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Orientierungsrahmen:
Bodenrecht und Bodenordnung

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

 

Günter Mertins (1996):
Land Tenure Regulations and Land Tenure Forms in Latin America:

Table of Contents:

1. Basic problems of the land tenure structure in Latin America
2. Forms of land tenure in Latin America
2.1 Public property
2.2 Communal land tenure and communal land usage rights
2.3 Private land tenure
2.3.1 Types of large land holdings
2.3.2 Types of small land holdings
2.4 Forms of lease
2.5 Illegal occupation (squatting) of public and privately owned land
2.6 Conclusion
3. Selected problem areas of land tenure laws
3.1 Effects of the land reform on forms of lease
3.2 Support of the formation and legalization of squatter farms
3.3 Inheritance division: socioeconomic and ecologic effects on small farms
3.4 Land market deficit
3.5 Dealing with the land usage rights of indigenous groups
4. Development trends of land tenure regulations
4.1 Tenure insecurity due to incomplete land reform actions
4.2 Tenure insecurity in agrarian-colonization zones
4.3 Squatting as a profession
4.4 Advancing land concentration and the increase of large land holdings
4.5 Increased land occupation
4.6 "Bottom-up" land reform
5. Conclusion
6. Bibliography