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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgment; Abbreviations; Preface; 1 History of Land Tenures in Ethiopia; 1.1 Land Tenures in the Pre-Imperial and Imperial Era of Ethiopia; 1.1.1 Rist and Gult Tenures of the North; 1.1.2 Transferability of Rights over Rist and Gult; 1.1.3 The Evils of the Rist Tenure; 1.1.3.1 Rist as Limitation on Transfer of Property Rights; 1.1.3.2 Rist as a Factor for Land Fragmentation; 1.1.3.3 Rist as a Factor for Migration; 1.1.3.4 Rist as a Factor for Litigation and Litigant Culture; 1.2 Southern Land Tenure during the Imperial Regimes. |
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1.3 1960 Civil Code: Embarking on Legal Modernism1.4 1975 Derg Regime: Land to the Tiller; 1.4.1 Institutional Framework of the Reform; 1.4.2 Frailty of the Derg Land Policy and Lessons Drawn; 1.5 1991 EPRDF Regime: The Transition Period (1991-1994); 1.5.1 Fairness vs. Efficiency; 1.5.1.1 The Fairness Principle Purporting Egalitarian Society; 1.5.1.2 Freehold as Exercise of Human Rights; 1.5.1.3 Freehold Promoting Efficiency; 1.5.1.4 The Principle of Eclecticism: The Compromising Position; 1.6 Conclusion; 2 The Current Legal Regimes of Land Governance in Ethiopia; 2.1 The FDRE Constitution. |
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2.2 Core Issues for Federal Guiding Laws on Land2.3 Federal Rural Land Laws: Rendering Framework Guides; 2.3.1 Objectives of the Law; 2.3.2 Types of Rural Landholdings; 2.3.2.1 Private Holding; 2.3.2.2 Communal Holding; 2.3.2.3 State Holding; 2.3.2.4 How and Who Can Access Rural Land Anyway?; 2.3.3 Registration of the Rural Land; 2.3.4 Transfer of Rural Land Use Rights; 2.3.5 Duties and Restrictions on the Use of Rural Land; 2.3.6 Administration and Dispute Resolution Mechanisms; 2.4 The Regional Laws: Appraisals and Departure Points; 2.4.1 Objectives of the Regional Laws. |
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2.4.2 Access to Rural Land2.4.2.1 Government Grant; 2.4.2.2 Inheritance and Gift; 2.4.2.3 Lease and Rent; 2.4.3 Registration of Rural Land; 2.4.4 Transfer of Rural Land Use Right; 2.4.4.1 Lease (Rent); 2.4.4.2 Inheritance; 2.4.4.3 Gift; 2.4.5 Duties and Restrictions on the Use of Rural Land; 2.4.6 Administration and Dispute Resolution Mechanisms; 2.5 Urban Land Governance: Introducing Lease System; 2.5.1 Urban Land Laws in Ethiopia; 2.5.2 Lease System; 2.6 Expropriation Laws; 2.7 Conclusion. |
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3 Tensions between de jure and de facto Transfer of Land Rights in Ethiopia: Informal Land Deals vs. the Command of the Statute Laws3.1 Rural Land Administration in Ethiopia; 3.1.1 Introduction and Justifications; 3.1.1.1 Essentials and Suitability of Qualitative Research Method; 3.1.1.2 Meki Town (Dugda District): Illustration of High-Value Land; 3.1.1.3 Yirgachefe District: Illustration of High-Value Land; 3.1.1.4 Mehal Meda Town (Menze Gera District): Illustration of Low-Value Land; 3.1.2 What Is Land Administration?; 3.1.3 Land Administration and Good Governance. |
Summary |
Land rights in general, and transferability of land rights in particular, have been a mind boggling subject for intellectuals, donors, and politicians in Ethiopia. The question of land and the rights attached to it has been a cause for political turbulence and instability in the nation as well. It is important to study the challenges of land policies pursued by successive regimes and the historical evolutionary course leading to the current land policy. The deadlocks on land policy issues in Ethiopia might superficially seem to hinge on preferences of which land governance system or legal regi. |
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Subject |
Land tenure -- Ethiopia.
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Land tenure. |
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Ethiopia. |
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Land reform -- Ethiopia.
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Land reform. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Gebreamanuel, Daniel Behailu. Transfer of Land Rights in Ethiopia : Towards a Sustainable Policy Framework. Portland : Eleven International Publishing, ©2015 9789462365476 |
ISBN |
9789462742543 (electronic book) |
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9462742545 (electronic book) |
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9789462365476 |
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9462365474 |
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9789462365476 |
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