The following document provides an overview of the land issues in Rwanda and the new Land
Policy and Land Law and identifies some of the key challenges for implementation, from the
perspective of the DFID appointed Land Policy Specialist to MINITERE.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsFebruary, 2003Rwanda
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Library ResourceNational PoliciesJanuary, 2004Rwanda
National Land Policy, Rwanda.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2004Rwanda
This chapter examines the relationship between land scarcity and conflict in Rwanda. Historically, land pressure has been a severe problem in Rwanda, where over 90% of the population practises agriculture. Land pressure has resulted in declining overall agricultural production, but increasing production for individuals and groups with favourable land and resource access. Cultivation is encroaching into wetlands, national parks and forest reserve areas to satisfy unmet demands for land by some, predominately underprivileged, groups.
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Library ResourceMarch, 2003Rwanda
This paper explores changes in land holdings, production and farm sizes in Rwanda between 1984-1990 to 2002.
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