Record Details

8Peri-urban land rights in the era of urbanisation in Ethiopia: A property rights approach

African Review of Economics and Finance

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title 8Peri-urban land rights in the era of urbanisation in Ethiopia: A property rights approach
 
Creator Adam, A G
 
Subject Ethiopia; landholder; leaseholder; peri-urban; property rights; urbanisation
 
Description All land in Ethiopia is owned by the state and granted to the people with holding right, and the land-holding arrangement is dichotomised into rural and urban systems. In-between urban and rural spaces, there is a transitional peri-urban agricultural area on which growing urbanisation has been exerting unprecedented pressure. Thus, this study mainly aims to examine and highlight the challenges and pressures imposed on the land rights of local peri-urban landholders, as a result of the growing demand for land due to urbanisation. To achieve the purpose of the study, both the desk review research approach and an analysis of previous survey research results are employed. Existing contemporary literature and theories on property rights, and current laws and policies focusing on land rights in Ethiopia are reviewed in detail. Finally, evidence shows that the new recipients of land from periurban areas, through the urban land lease system, are provided and can enjoy better and thicker bundles of land rights than the indigenous, local, peri-urban landholders in the process of urban development.Keywords: Ethiopia; landholder; leaseholder; peri-urban; property rights; urbanisation
 
Publisher Rhodes University
 
Contributor
 
Date 2014-08-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://www.ajol.info/index.php/aref/article/view/106927
 
Source African Review of Economics and Finance; Vol 6, No 1 (2014); 120-138
2042-1478
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://www.ajol.info/index.php/aref/article/view/106927/96835
 
Rights Copyright belongs to the journal.