The importance of good land governance to strengthen women’s
land rights, facilitate land-related investment, transfer land to
better uses, use it as collateral, and allow effective decentralization
through collection of property taxes has long been recognized. The
challenges posed by recent global developments, especially
urbanization, increased and more volatile food prices, and climate
change have raised the profile of land and the need for countries to
have appropriate land policies. However, efforts to improve
country-level land governance are often frustrated by technical
complexities, institutional fragmentation, vested interests, and lack
of a shared vision on how to move towards good land governance and
measure progress in concrete settings. Recent initiatives have
recognized the important challenges this raises and the need for
partners to act in a collaborative and coordinated fashion to address
them.
The breadth and depth of the papers included in this volume, all of
which were presented at the World Bank’s Annual Conference on
Land Policy and Administration, illustrate the benefits from such
collaboration. They are indicative not only of the diversity of issues
related to land governance but, more importantly, highlight that, even
though the topic is complex and politically challenging, there is a
wealth of promising new approaches to improving land governance through
innovative technologies, country-wide policy dialogue, and legal and
administrative reforms. The publication is based on an on-going
partnership between the World Bank, the International Federation of
Surveyors, the Global Land Tool Network and the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization provide tools that can help to address land
governance in practice and at scale. It is our hope that this volume
will be of use to increase awareness of and support to the successful
implementation of innovative approaches that can help to not only
improve land governance, but also thereby contribute to the well-being
of the poorest and the achievement of the Millennium Development
Goals.
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