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ENSURING AND PROTECTING THE LAND LEASING RIGHT OF POOR WOMEN IN INDIA

Policy Papers & Briefs
Febrero, 2014
India

March 2014 – This paper critically examines how lease farming can be a viable livelihood option for landless rural poor, especially women in India. In the absence of land ownership and education, the majority of landless and semi-landless rural women are engaged as low wage agricultural labourers and remain trapped in poverty and indebtedness. Lease farming by landless women in Kerala and Andhra Pradesh shows a pathway for reducing their poverty and enabling upward social mobility.

Inventory of Public Land in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Febrero, 2014

This paper pilots an approach to
identifying, categorizing, and mapping public land owned by
the central, state, and local government in urban developed
areas of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The methodology uses
information on plot sizes, location, and ownership that is
publicly available for all areas covered by town planning
schemes. The study examines the extent of unutilized and
underutilized public land, which excludes all cemeteries,

Capturing the Value of Public Land for Urban Infrastructure : Centrally Controlled Landholdings

Febrero, 2014

Government entities in India hold large
amounts of public land. Their landholdings include some of
the most valuable property in the country. Parts of this
patrimony lie vacant or underutilized. Public sector bodies
also own large blocs of land that sometimes stand in the way
of efficient completion of urban infrastructure networks. At
the same time, urban India is deficient in basic
infrastructure -- both network infrastructure needed to

Regulations on Procedure to Sublease Portion of Farming Unit (GN No. 241 of 2013).

Regulations
Septiembre, 2013
Namibia

These Regulations, made in terms of section 77 read with section 46 of the Agricultural (Commercial) Land Reform, concern subletting of a farm unit. They make provision with respect to an application for consent to sublet farming unit and rent, defines size of farming unit to be sublet and the duration of a sublease, prescribe conditions on subletting farming units by sub-lessees and prescribe conditions on grazing livestock.

Vanuatu Land Use Planning Policy

National Policies
Agosto, 2013
Vanuatu

The Vanuatu Land Use Planning Policy is a national sectoral policy of Vanuatu for the period 2012-2017. Its main objective is to guide land use planning by setting priorities and outlining legislative and institutional settings to enable land use planning that encourages the best current use of Vanuatu’s land resources.The Policy aims to support food security.

Order No. 216 of the Ministry of Natural Resources validating the Regulation on protection area of state nature biosphere reserve “Sokhondinsky”.

Regulations
Junio, 2013
Rusia

This Regulation establishes that protection area of state nature biosphere reserve “Sokhondinsky” shall be established on adjacent areas with a view of protection of the protected area against negative anthropogenic impact. Land plots within the boundaries of protection area shall not be expropriated from landowners, land tenants, leaseholders and servitude holders and shall be management thereby in accordance with the established regime.

COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO THE SPECIAL AGRICULTURE AND BUSINESS LEASE (SABL)

Reports & Research
Mayo, 2013
Papua New Guinea

This is our Final Report. It differs markedly from our Interim Report in structure and content layout as a direct result of the manner in which the government received our Interim Report. This change of strategy on our part, amongst other imperatives, is a full acknowledgement that the government is entitled to demand of us a Final Report of a kind that suits its purposes. However we do have a duty to report the truth as we discovered the truth through our investigations, in the context of our own experiences as well as offer best options on the way forward. 

Law No. 951 “On pastures”.

Legislation
Marzo, 2013
Tayikistán

This Law regulates social relations concerning use of pastures. The principles of use of pastures shall be as follows: (a) efficient and complex management of pastures; (b) protection of pastures and environment; (c) correspondence of national and regional interests; (d) transparency related to the use of pastures; (e) accessibility of pastures to natural and legal persons; and (f) creation of favorable conditions for investments related to improvement of the efficiency of pastures management. All pastures in the Republic of Tajikistan shall be national property.

Land Tenure for Social and Economic Inclusion in Yemen : Issues and Opportunities

Febrero, 2013
Yemen

The report, Land Tenure for Social and
Economic Inclusion in Yemen: Issues and Opportunities was
completed in December 2009. The report addresses the
problems of land ownership in Yemen and the various social
and economic problems associated with the system of land
ownership. Property rights under Yemeni Law are expressed
both in custom and statute, but both are informed by shari a
(Islamic law), which provides the basic property categories

La cuestión agraria en Uruguay

Policy Papers & Briefs
Febrero, 2013
Uruguay

El autor asegura que  hay contradicciones flagrantes entre el discurso y la práctica del gobierno del presidente Mujica en Uruguay,  poniendo como principal ejemplo que “Los principales referentes del segundo gobierno del Frente Amplio, mediante ejercicios retóricos verdaderamente admirables, intentan enmarcar sus políticas agrarias como parte de la vía al socialismo” mientras que, en la realidad, esas transformaciones no existen. A lo largo del artículo, Gabriel Oyhantçabal describe y analiza la situación uruguaya para probar su aseveración.