7 - Participants’ evaluation of the land reform programme in Rwanda’s Southern Province
Corresponding Author(s) : Johan Zaaiman
African Sociological Review,
Vol. 22 No. 1 (2018): African Sociological Review
Abstract
Land reform is a state-initiated process that aims to redistribute land in such a way that the poor and vulnerable can benefit. To overcome previous socio-political and economic induced inequalities, several countries embarked on land reform to help improve the quality of life of inhabitants and redress inequality. The land reform implemented in 2006 in Rwanda was a unique programme due to the specific history of this country. This article presents participants’ evaluation in 2014 on land reform. Through a survey, interviews and focus groups, role- players in land reform within the Southern Province of Rwanda indicated that the reform was advantageous because of the security and benefits of ownership it provided and the cooperation it ensured. More state support and agricultural freedom were, however, requested.
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Adams, M. 2000. Breaking ground: Development aid for land reform. London: ODI Ali, D.A., Deininger, K. & Goldstein, M. 2011. Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularisation in Africa: Pilot evidence from Rwanda. Policy research working paper series 5765.Washington, DC: The World Bank.
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Ansoms, A. 2008. A green revolution for Rwanda? The political economy of poverty and agrarian change. Institute of Development Policy and Management discussion paper. Antwerp: University of Antwerp.
Ansoms, A.2009. Faces of rural poverty in contemporary Rwanda. Linking livelihood profiles and institutional processes. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Antwerp.
Ansoms, A. 2012. Modernizing the marshes: Large-scale cultivation and local desperation.
Presentation at Conference on Rwanda from Below. University of Antwerp, 29-30 June 2012.
Borras, S. M. Jr. 2002. Towards a better understanding of the market-led agrarian reform in theory and practice: Focusing on the Brazilian case. Land reform, land settlement and cooperatives, vol.1.
Boudreaux, K. 2009. Land conflicts and genocide in Rwanda Available at http://www.ejsd.org,[Accessed on 15 July 2012], p. 13.
Brarel, B. 2001. Tenure security and agricultural production under land scarcity: The case of
Rwanda (In John Bruce and Shem Mighot-Adhola. Searching for land tenure security in Africa.Kendall/Hunt).
Bruck, T. & Schindler, K. 2009. Smallholder land access in post-war northern orld Development. vol.37, no. 8, p. 1379.
Daley, E., Dore-Weeks, R. & Umuhoza, C. 2010. Ahead of the game: Land tenure reform in Rwanda and the process of securing women’s land rights. Journal of Eastern African Studies, vol. 4, no. 1.Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17531050903556691 [Accessed on 16 February 2014].
Deininger, K. 1999. Making negotiated land reform work: Initial experience from Colombia, Brasil and South Africa. World Development, vol. 27, no. 4, p. 3.
GIEWS/FAO 2010. GIEWS country brief: Rwanda. 25 March 2010.
Hahirwa, J. 2012. Resistance to reform: Agricultural transformation in post-genocide Rwanda. An embedded case study design with the Gako-Masaka unit of analysis. Paper presented at the Swedish National Conference on Peace and Conflict Research, 14-15 June 2012, University of Gothenburg.
Hall, R. 1998. Design for equity. Linking policy with objectives in South Africa’s land reform. Review of African political economy, vol. 77.
Huggins, C. 2012. Consolidating land consolidating control: What future for smallholder farming in Rwanda’s “green revolution”? Paper presented at the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing 2, 17-19 October. LDPI, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University. Available at http://www.cornell-landproject.org [Accessed on 12 February 2013].
IFDC 2010. Evaluation Report: Crop Intensification Programme, 2008-2009. Kigali:MINAGRI.
Jones, C., Laura, D. & Bizoza, A. 2014. The gendered nature of land and property rights in post-reform Rwanda. Kigali: USAID/Land Project, p. 15.
Kairaba, A. & Simons, J.D. 2011. Impact on the land reform of land rights and economic poverty reduction of the majority rural and especially women who depend on land for their livelihoods.
Kigali: RISD Available at http://www.risdrwanda. org/IMG/pdf/RISD_and IS report.pdf [Accessed on 25 February 2015].
Lisa, J. 2001. Summary of comments on the Draft Policy for Land Reform in Rwanda, Kigali: UNHCR MINAGRI (Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources), 2009. Strategic plan for transformation of agriculture in Rwanda Phase II. Final report, Kigali.
MINAGRI (Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources), 2012. Farm land use consolidation in Rwanda: assessment from the perspectives of the agriculture sector. Kigali.
MINECOFIN (Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning). 2000. Rwanda Vision 2020, Kigali.
MIFINECPL (Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning), 2012. Fourth Population and Housing Census, Rwanda, 2012. Thematic Report. July 2014. Kigali: NISR. MINITERRE (Ministry of Lands, Environment, Forestry, Water and Mines), 2004. National Land Policy, Kigali.
Musahara, H. 2001. Land and poverty in Rwanda. UNR. Butare: Department of Economics.
Musahara, H. 2006. Improving tenure security for rural poor: Rwanda-country case study. Nakuru: FAO.
Musahara, H. & Huggins, C. 2004. Land reform, land scarcity and post conflict reconstruction.
Policy Brief. A case study of Rwanda. Eco-conflict, vol. 3, no. 3.
Ngoga, H.T. 2012. Empowering women through land tenure reform. Geneva: UNwomen Available at http://www.unwomen.org, [Accessed on 2 March 2013], p. 16.
NISR (National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda), 2012. The third integrated household living conditions survey (EICV 3), Kigali.
Ntsebeza, L. 2005. Democracy compromised. Chiefs and the politics of the land in South Africa. Boston: Brill Leiden.
Ohlsson, L. 1999. Environment, scarcity, and conflict: A study of Malthusian concerns. Göteborg: Dept. of Peace and Development Research, University of Göteborg,
p. 28.
Palmer, R. 2000. Report and reflection on the Rwandan Draft National Land Policy Workshop, Kigali: Oxfam
Pottier, J. 2006. Land reform for peace? Rwanda’s 2005 land law in context. Journal of Agrarian Change, vol. 6, no. 4.
Quan, J. 2000. Land tenure, economic growth and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (In Toulmin, C.& Quan, J. eds. Evolving land rights, policy and tenure in Africa. London: DFID/IIED/NRI).
Sagashya, D. 2012. Building land administration in Rwanda through systematic land registration. Amsterdam: Geospatial World Forum.
Sagashya, D. & English, C. 2010. Designing and establishing a land administration system for Rwanda: Technical and economic analysis (In Deininger, K., Augustinus, C, Enemark, S. & Munro-Faure, P. eds. Innovations in land rights recognition, administration and governance. Joint Organisation Paper, Issue 2. Washington D.C:World Bank.) Sikor, T. & Muller, D. 2009. The limits of State-led land reform. An introduction. World Development, vol. 37, no. 8, Cambridge. MA: Harvard Kennedy School, p. 1308.
USAID, 2013. The future of customary tenure: Options for policymakers. Property rights and resource governance. Briefing paper no. 8. Washington, DC.
Wolford, W. 2007. Land reform in the times of neoliberalism: A many-splendored thing. Antidope, 39(3):550-570 Available at http://www.zotero.org/mybarra/ items , [Accessed on16 February 2013].
World Bank. 2014. Doing business 2014: Understanding regulations for small and medium size enterprise. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.0.1596/978-0-8213-9984-2.