土地治理的成效如何? 怎样对土地利用活动和土地政策进行评估？世界银行的专家们提供了一个很好的框架，并在非洲等部分国家进行了实证研究。
The Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) is a diagnostic tool to help evaluate the legal framework, policies, and practices regarding land governance and to monitor improvement over time. It emerged from a collaborative process between the World Bank and its partners that was based on the recognition of the increasingly important role of land governance to help
countries deal with the challenges of the 21st century in terms of climate change, urbanization, disaster prevention, and  anagement of increased demand for land in an integrated way that provides a basis for demonstrating progress over time.