This Act, consisting of seven Chapters divided into 59 Articles, concerns the assessment of land value and related tax. The Act provides for the land value tax (Chapter 2), the agricultural land tax (Part 3) and land value increment tax (Chapter 4), the tax collection procedure (Chapter 5), and…
This Act, consisting of seven Chapters divided into 59 Articles, concerns the assessment of land value and related tax. The Act provides for the land value tax (Chapter 2), the agricultural land tax (Part 3) and land value increment tax (Chapter 4), the tax collection procedure (Chapter 5), and…
This manual is a translation and adaptation 11Le sol - comment conserver le sol? ", published by the ri-Service- Afrique of the lnstitut africain pour le developpement economique et social (INADES). The course covers erosion, soil conservation and farming techniques that protect soil…
This Act is enacted to promote conservation and utilization of lands and natural resources, and reasonable distribution of population and industrial activities, so as to accelerate economic development, improve living environment, and enhance public welfare.A regional plan referred to in this…
This publication has been prepared as a background paper in view of the UN conference on the human environment that was held in Stockholm in 1972. This background document had contribution from UNESCO, IAEA and WHO. While the demand for land for land increases at a very rapid rate through…
One out of every three people on earth is in some way affected by land degradation. Latest
estimates indicate that nearly 2 billion ha of land worldwide – an area twice the size of China
– are already seriously degraded, some irreversibly. This includes large areas of cropland,…
The objective of the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA) project was to develop tools and methods to assess and quantify the nature, extent, severity and impacts of land degradation on dryland ecosystems, watersheds and river basins, carbon storage and biological diversity at a range…
Whilst still in its infancy, the development of geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) tools is paving the way for global land use monitoring. This paper provides a first, tentative description of livestock related land use.
Preliminary results indicate that, in most…
FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), Germany, IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), Finland, GTZ (Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit), UN-Habitat, World Bank and UNDP, and IPC (International NGO/CSO Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty),…
An international review of forestry and forest products
Revista internacional de silvicultura e industrias forestales