Leasehold estate

About: Leasehold estate is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1589 publications have been published within this topic receiving 21480 citations. The topic is also known as: leasehold & tenancy.

Land Accessibilty problems in Nigeria: A case study of Gwagwalada

Abstract: This study examines land accessibility problems in Nigeria, using Gwagwalada, as a case study. Gwagwalada is a satellite town of Abuja, Nigeria federal capital city. There is rapid urbanisation of Gwagwalada since 1991 when the seat of the federal government of Nigeria was relocated to Abuja and establishment of many federal institutions there to decongest the federal capital city. Land administration in Nigeria is regulated by the Land Use Ac twhich nationalized land and its major objective is to make land accessible to all applicants in Nigeria. The study reveals that land accessibility is a challenge in Gwagwalada in terms of high cost and delays. 72% of the respondents accessed land through direct purchase at high prices from private land market, 25% of them got their land by direct government allocation and the remaining 3% of them access it through leasehold transaction. It took 98% respondents between two to ten years to obtain government allocation. This negates one of the objectives of the Land Use Act which is to make availability of land easier to the citizenry. There is bureaucratic delay in the processing of application for allocation of land, issuance of Certificates of Occupancy and registration of properties. Allocation criteria are exclusionary and only a very small proportion of middle to upper income earners have access to land. If Nigeria is to meet the challenges of competing effectively in an increasingly globalizing world, it is thus imperative that it gives very urgent and sustained attention to promoting its land reform program in all its ramifications to address the present challenges to land accessibility.

Tenure implication and property right on adoption of cocoa rehabilitation techniques in osun state of nigeria

Abstract: In an effort to achieve increased cocoa production in Nigeria, a number of initiatives were introduced towards increasing yields with the aim of reviving the old glory of cocoa and make it an engine of Nigerian economy. Despite this, farmers still produce below expected cocoa production figure due to conditions associated with their farmland. Tenure insecurity hindered acceptability of the established initiatives since majority of the farmers in the cocoa industries are holding the farmland in possession through different arrangements which provide the legal and normative framework within which all agricultural as well as other economic activities are conducted. On this note, this study aims to investigate the effects of tenure arrangement on adoption of CRTs. Result shows that respondents were mostly males, Christians, members of CFAN with mean age of 59.0+10.18 with average household size of 8 people, cultivating an average farm size of 17.38 acres, obtained mostly through different tenural patterns and scattered in different locations. Findings further reveals that age, membership to CFAN and tenure arrangement had significant relationship with adoption of cocoa rehabilitation techniques. And also, there was significant difference in the perception, as well as adoption of selective tree replanting, planting under old cocoa trees, chupon regeneration, coppicing, gapping up between tenant farmers and farm owners at p=0.05. Cocoa industry is mostly populated with tenant farmers who had unfavourable perception about cocoa rehabilitation resulting in low adoption rate due to challenge of insecurity of tenure. Thus, there is need for development of technological packages that meet the need of different categories of farmers based on their respective tenure. Also there is the need for securing land-use rights through improved tenancy arrangements to better meet the interests of small, tenant and landless farmers

Land Law Reform: A Comparative Analysis of South Africa's Labour Tenancy Contract and Malawi's Tenant Worker's Contract

Abstract: (2006). Land Law Reform: A Comparative Analysis of South Africa'S Labour Tenancy Contract and Malawi'S Tenant Worker'S Contract. Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 201-225.