Together with reductions in indirect taxes on food imports, cash for work programs were one of the main responses implemented by African governments following the food, fuel, and financial crisis of recent years. The main objective of those programs was to help the poor cope with the various shocks by increasing their net earnings through community-level work paid for under the programs. Yet it is unclear whether these cash for work programs indeed reached their intended beneficiaries and to what degree they generated other, potentially long-term beneficial impacts.

This Act amends the Sugar Industry Efficiency Act 2001 and various other laws relating to land, fisheries and agriculture. The amendments concern economic and financial matters. The Fisheries and Marine Resources Act is amended by repealing section 8A and replacing it by a section concerning fish farming zones and fish farming industry. The Environment Protection Act is amended by inserting a new section on EIA licence under LPES (“Land Productivity Enhancement Scheme”).

Agricultural land values and cash rental rates in South Dakota, by region and by state, are primary topics of this report. The target audience are farmers and ranchers, landowners, ag professionals (lenders, rural appraisers, professional farm managers), and policy makers interested in ag land market trends. This report contains results of the 2011 Farm Real Estate Market Survey, the 21st annual SDSU survey developed to estimate ag land values and cash rental rates by land use in different regions of South Dakota.

The objective of this report is to identify and evaluate best practices in smallholder private irrigation in West Africa. The report is based on a comparative assessment of the smallholder private irrigation subsector in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria, which included a literature review, field visits, and workshops at both national and regional levels. The task lists for the assessment is provided in annex one. This report first presents the main features of smallholder irrigation and the development projects that have promoted its use in West Africa in chapter two.

...Beginning in December 2010, Burmese Navy Unit No. 43, under the
command of Ka Dike-based government navy regional command head
quarters, began to confiscate the rubber plantations and household plots of
villagers on Kywe Thone Nyi Ma Island, Yebyu Township, Tennaserim
Division. Since then, all land on which red signboards were placed by the
navy has been confiscated. This report documents the confiscation of over
1,000 acres of land on Kywe Thone Nyi Ma Island. However, HURFOM found

Whatever the prevailing terminology and ideologies, there is now ample evidence that large swathes of African farmland are being allocated to investors, usually on long-term leases, at a rate not seen for decades – indeed, not since the colonial period. The fact that much of this land is being acquired to provide for the future food and fuel needs of foreign nations has, not surprisingly, led to allegations that a neo-colonial push by more wealthy and powerful nations is underway to annex the continent’s key natural resources.

This Amendment to the Farmland Readjustment Act revises the provisions for the announcement and implementation or modification of Farmland Readjustment Plan (art.7) , and compensation (art. 31-32).

The Guideline lays down rules of procedure for implementing changes in the cadastral categories of the agricultural land. It regulates the application process, defines the parties that are eligible for such application, and the methods applied for verification and approval of requests for changing the land categories. Attachments on “Average number of plants for area units’, ‘The verification act’ and ‘Certification on the cadastral change of the agricultural land” are also attached to it. Implements: Regulation No.

Au Burkina Faso, le potentiel en terres arables à vocation agricole est épuisé. À l’avenir, la population en rapide expansion ne pourra être nourrie que s’il est possible d’accroître les rendements sur les terres cultivées existantes. Grâce à la construction de cordons pierreux le long des courbes de niveau, il est possible de mieux exploiter l’eau de pluie et de stopper l’érosion.

Contains country context, study of land investment, benefits and impacts. Finds wide discrepancies between public positions and laws and what is happening on the ground, an absence of environmental controls, widespread displacement from farmland without compensation, little local benefit, many land deals involve small-scale investors with limited agricultural experience.

The objective of this article is to explain the hydraulic function of subsurface pipe drainage system on agricultural experimental field in Mashtul Pilot Area (Nile Delta) in non-steady state drainage flow conditions. Subsurface drainage structures were designed for the conditions of steady state drainage flow. However, in reality non-steady state drainage situations prevail. A model to solve the problem is presented. Boussinesq's equation was used to study the non-steady state drainage flow. The final expression of lowering of water table in time was approximated by Glover-Dumm.

Examines political and social dynamics of foreign agricultural investment in Ethiopia. Concludes that this expansion is part of a government move towards an export-led development strategy, so the micro-benefits come at the cost of increased risks to those living in the vicinity of new investments, particularly politically marginalised pastoralist populations.