Transfer of land rights in Ethiopia : towards a sustainable policy framework /
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 i...
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The Hague :
Eleven international Publishing,
[2015]
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Table of 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
