Land tenure issues are becoming increasingly important worldwide. Problems such as high population pressure, increases in resource degradation, food shortages, transformations of political systems and regional and supra-regional resource conflicts have brought the land issue to the public's attention.

This issue of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives includes interesting descriptions of land tenure and related policies in Uganda, Tunisia, the United Republic of Tanzania and Morocco. Two thought-provoking articles on access to land and other assets focus on policies to reduce poverty and the function of markets in the allocation of production resources. In the first, J. Melmed-Sanjak and S.

The history of Burma’s jade mines in the West is a brief one. While hundreds of different reports, articles and even books exist on the famous ruby deposits of Mogok, only a handful of westerners have ever made the journey to northern Burma’s remote jade mines and wrote down their findings. Occidental accounts of the mines make their first appearance in 1837. Although in 1836, Captain Hannay obtained specimens of jadeite at Mogaung during his visit to the Assam frontier (Hannay, 1837), Dr. W.Griffiths (1847) was the first European to actually visit the mines, in 1837 (Griffiths, 1847).

This is a Land Lease Agreement,Memorandum of Understanding posted on OpenLandContracts.org. It lists Other crops,Peat soils as the primary resource(s)

This is a Land Lease Agreement,Memorandum of Understanding posted on OpenLandContracts.org. It lists Other crops,Peat soils as the primary resource(s)

This is a Concession Agreement posted on OpenLandContracts.org. It lists Palm oil,Cassava,Livestock as the primary resource(s)

This is a Decree posted on OpenLandContracts.org. It lists Timber (Wood) as the primary resource(s)

This is a Concession Agreement posted on OpenLandContracts.org. It lists Paper,Bamboo as the primary resource(s)

There is widespread belief among development specialists that land tenure security is a necessary but not sufficient condition for economic development.