Land Tenure System and Land Grabbing in the Customary Land of Africa

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25580172
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Human geography
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Oyama Shuichi 京都大学, アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科, 准教授 (00322347)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ITANI Juichi 京都大学, アフリカ地域研究資料センター, 准教授 (20232382)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 土地制度 / 土地の収奪 / 私有化 / 土地法 / 国際研究者交流 / ザンビア / タンザニア / ウガンダ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Land allocation and land tenure security are important issues for contemporary African village communities, because of unequal land allocation under the colonial policy, increases in the population, expansion of cultivated land, refugee movements and resettlement schemes. The governments in Africa enacted the 'Land Act’ with the aim of stimulating investment and agricultural productivity. Land-market reforms significantly impacted Zambian communally held customary land and people’s livelihoods when the Land Acts were legislated. This project clarified the land grabbing and the impacts of land reform to the people's livelihoods, landuse and regional ecology in the customary land of Zambia and Tanzania.

Free Research Field

地理学