Liz Alden Wily
Liz Alden Wily (PhD) is an independent land specialist, focusing on the tenure and socio-political implications of up to 3 billion people who hold rural lands under customary or other community based tenure systems. These lands embrace at least half the global land area (c. 6+ billion ha). Liz has worked with issues of majority rural tenure since 1985, mainly in Africa but also in Central Asia (e.g. Afghanistan, Georgia, Armenia), Asia (e.g. Nepal, Indonesia). She works entirely independently but is associated with a number of initiatives, projects and academic institutes, including Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law and Development, Leiden Law School, and Katiba Institute, a constitutional and law advocacy body, in Kenya, and the Rights and Resources Initiative, based in Washington DC.
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postscript by author in 2024: Unfortunately, the absence of significant tenure change since 2010 in Cameroon means that most of this analysis is still up to date, over a decade later.