This lesson brief explores the multiple independent phenomena that affect relationships between farmers and herders, as well as the nature of their conflicts over natural resources in Mali. It is part of the Focus on Land in Africa: Land Tenure and Property Rights online educational tool.

[From AWID]  We, the Women’s Major Group representatives* at the Asia Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting for Rio+20 call on governments to reaffirm their commitments to Agenda 21 and the Beijing Platform for Action, and fulfill their obligations to the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 

The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture (SOLAW) analyses a variety of options for overcoming constraints and improving resource management in these areas of heightened risk. In each location, a mix of changes in institutional and policy measures will have to be combined with greater access to technologies for better management of land and water resources.

Just a couple weeks ago,  Iowa State University (ISU) withdrew from advising the Iowa-based firm AgriSol Energy on itsplanned land deal in Tanzania.

En esta edición de La Revista Agraria presentamos un especial sobre la concentración de la tierra en el Perú, con artículos sobre el tamaño de los latifundios, variables a tener en cuenta para limitar la propiedad rural, el acaparamiento en la subasta de tierras del proyecto Olmos, y los problemas ambientales que presentan los proyectos de irrigación en la costa. También se hace un análisis del presupuesto del MINAG y la problemática del sector vicuñero.

The structure of this review is as follows: the first section discusses how contract farming is defined for the purposes of this review and  briefly describes the history and extent of contract farming globally. The second section details the main factors contributing to the increased incidence of contract farming in developing countries, and describes the most common models utilised. Section 3 covers the main conceptual and theoretical perspectives on contract farming.

Le présent règlement met en exécution la loi du 2 mars 1999 sur les forêts et la protection contre les catastrophes naturelles. Le texte comprend 92 articles répartis en 9 chapitres comme suit: Dispositions générales (1er); Protection des forêts contre les atteintes de l’homme (2); Protection contre les catastrophes naturelles (3); Entretien et exploitation des forêts (4); Formation professionnelle, vulgarisation et information (5); Mesures d’encouragement (6); Forêts domaniales (7); Dispositions pénales (8); Dispositions finales (9).

La présente loi a pour buts d’exécuter la législation forestière fédérale, de désigner les autorités d’application et de fixer leurs compétences. Elle vise également: a) à favoriser une gestion optimale des forêts; b) à promouvoir l’utilisation du bois d’origine indigène; c) à assurer un traitement sylvicole adapté aux conditions naturelles et aux fonctions de la forêt.

La presente Resolución tiene como objeto establecer los requisitos y el procedimiento para la sustracción de zonas de reserva forestal, de conformidad con los estudios realizados por el Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible, para su utilización en explotación diferente a la forestal, con el propósito de adelantar los programas de reforma agraria y desarrollo rural, así como también para los fines de atención, asistencia y reparación integral a las víctimas del conflicto armado interno.

The 2008 report by ActionAid suggests that, since women and girls are overrepresented among poor and excluded people, the food crisis is having a particularly harsh impact on them.  According to the FAO, even before the current crisis women made up 60% of the chronically hungry.

[adapted from UNDP] May, 2008- This UNDP discussion paper ‘Pro-Poor Land Tenure Reform and Democratic Governance’ provides a review of how different types of land tenure reform relate to decentralization and local governance, in theory and in practice.  The discussion suggests that in order to create more democratic and transparent local management of land resources, special mechanisms to protect women against direct and indirect discrimination, as well as the establishment of local land committees and land tribunals for conflict resolution are needed.