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Producing food for the world’s growing rural and urban populations starts with agricultural land. Reducing current high levels of hunger and malnutrition, as called for by the Sustainable Development Goals, will depend on land use decisions and governance from the global to the local level. Although about 40 percent of the world’s land is used for crop production and pasture, today some 800 million people remain food insecure and as many as 2 billion are malnourished. Achieving food security requires physical, social, and economic access to safe and nutritious food.

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Integrated First-time Land Registration and Land Consolidation Process

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February, 2025
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Ethiopia

This paper explores the potential for conducting initial land registration and land consolidation processes as a unified process. In many low-income countries, a significant amount of land remains unregistered, with agricultural land often fragmented across multiple plots. Traditionally, systematic land registration must be completed before proceeding with land consolidation efforts. This study aims to investigate whether these processes can be integrated, potentially leading to an outcome with reduced fragmentation and time and cost savings by eliminating redundant activities.

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Responsible Land Policy in Cameroon
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Project duration:
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Project duration:
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12915000
Project duration:
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3925000
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6910000
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12915000
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1260000
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1485000
Project duration:
to
Euro
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Womens group in a workshop
Responsible Land Policy in Cameroon
5000000
Project duration:
to
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German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Context

Reliable access to land plays a central role in food security and poverty reduction as well as for the sustainable use of natural resources. In contrast, poorly defined land use rights encourage conflicts between different population and land user groups and prevent investment in the conservation and restoration of biodiverse landscapes.

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2800000
Project duration:
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Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

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LAND-at-scale mozambique @Terra Firma
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1700000
Project duration:
to
Euro
Terra Firma, Centro Terra Viva
Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
The project will contribute to community preparation to intervene in an informed manner in the land sector and will also contribute to the delimitation of community and individual land-use rights based on good faith occupation and customary rights, and their integration into the formal land system.
uganda Beneficiaries of Certificate of Customary Ownership pose for a photo with the Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Hon Judith Nabakooba in Butaleja disrtict.jp
LAND-at-scale Uganda - Scaling up community-based land registration and land use planning on customary land
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Project duration:
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Global Land Tool Network
Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
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Responsible Land Policy in Côte d'Ivoire
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Côte d'Ivoire is the largest cocoa producer in the world, and about 10% of GDP and 15% of government revenues are generated in this sector. However, as of July 2017, only 0.5% of the total agricultural land had a land certificate. At the same time, due to population growth the pressure on land increases.
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6910000
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to
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Responsible Land Policy in Ethiopia
12915000
Project duration:
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Euro
European Union, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
The country module Ethiopia of the Global Project Responsible Land Policy is a continuation of the project “Support to Responsible Agricultural Investment” (S2RAI) implemented on behalf of the BMZ and with financial support from the European Union from March 2016 until June 2019 and thus capitalizes on previous lessons learned and products developed. Some of the main achievements include a digital land investment management and monitoring system (CAMiS), the development of contract templates, monitoring guidelines as well as the Guidelines for Social and Environmental Practices of Responsible Commercial Agriculture in Ethiopia (SECoP). Additionally, S2RAI supported the decision to redefine ceilings for agricultural investments from 1 million ha to 1,000 ha for domestic and 3,000 ha for foreign investors.
FNF contribution to the Special Initiative One World - No Hunger III
1260000
Project duration:
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United States dollar
Other organizations (Projects Database)
Government of Germany, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

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Small-scale farmers, the agrarian economy and other interest groups will be connected beyond their counties, to develop innovative technologies and market chances, to increase the production and the food security.

4500000
Donors:
United States Agency for International Development

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The Land Reform Project in Tajikistan (LRPT) works with government stakeholders to reform policy and land legislation, provides legal assistance to farmers to improve legal aid, and builds capacity through training and outreach for lawyers, judges, and local

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