Our work on land tenure and land reform focuses primarily on sub-Saharan Africa, but also addresses the linkages between land issues and poverty reduction in other major regions of the developing world.  Our technical advisory and consultancy work has supported multi-donor projects that aim to strengthen security of tenure, notably in Mozambique and Ghana, while also examining the governance challenges of natural-resource management at local level, including work with village-based policy groups in Uganda.

Our policy-related work has included research on the changing interface between land access and wider issues of rural territorial development, including decentralized cross-sectoral planning, enhancing participation to enable more integrated delivery of land reforms, local economic development, rural-urban linkages and sustainable natural resource management.  We recently completed a DFID-funded policy research project on land access and participatory territorial development in South Africa and Brazil, and contributed a paper on territorial approaches in sub-Saharan Africa for the 2008 World Development Report.  We are planning collaboration with the IDRC-funded programme on Rural Territorial Dynamics in Latin America coordinated by Rimisp (the Latin Amercian Centre for Rural Development).