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Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper.

National Policies
Armenia
Western Asia
Asia

The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) is a multi-sectoral national strategic document of the Republic of Armenia covering the period from 2003 to 2015. Its main objective is ensuring sustainable and high economic growth and the implementation of efficient social protection policies.The PRSP among others is concerned with agricultural development. It notes that in 2003-2015, the growth of agricultural production will continue to be the main factor for the reduction of rural poverty.

Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional state Rural Land Administration and Utilization Proclamation (No. 110/2007).

Legislation
Ethiopia
Africa
Eastern Africa

This Proclamation aims at improving management and utilization of land and land resources for agricultural purposes in the Southern Nations, Nationalities And Peoples' Regional State. It applies to all land that lies outside of municipal borders. The Proclamation defines the right to acquire, free of charge, rural land by peasants, pastoralists and semi-pastoralists engaged in agriculture and the equal rights of women with respect to land and provides for the protection of such rights.

Presidential Decree No. UP-1009 “On improvement of efficiency of land tenure”.

Legislation
Russia
Uzbekistan
Asia
Central Asia

The President authorizes experimental allotment on unused land and land of marginally profitable or unprofitable agricultural enterprises to citizens on condition of life-long hereditary possession. The aforesaid land shall be used for agricultural purposes. The dimensions of land area shall be established with the consideration of local conditions but shall not exceed 5 hectares for irrigated areas and 15 hectares for non-irrigated areas.

Regional Law No. 7/2008-OZ “On some issues of legal regulation of land relations”.

Legislation
Russia
Eastern Europe
Europe

This Regional Law establishes the following cases of allotment of public land free of charge on condition of ownership to citizens: (a) multi-child families with three and more minor children for farming; (b) families with disabled children for farming; (c) orphans for housing construction; (d) disabled persons for housing construction, gardening, horticulture and subsistence farming in rural areas; (e) war veterans for housing construction; (f) rehabilitated victims of political repressions for housing construction, gardening, horticulture and subsistence farming in rural areas; (g) person

Decree No. 85/1999/ND-CP amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Regulation on the allocation of agricultural land to family households and individuals for stable and long-term use in agricultural production and adding the allocation of ...

Regulations
Vietnam
Asia
South-Eastern Asia

Agricultural land is allocated to specified subjects whose main source of income is agriculture, aquaculture of the winning of salt. Article 2 defines "agricultural land". Land shall be allocated for 20 years if used for planting of "annual trees" or aquaculture and 50 years if used for planting of "perennial trees". Article 5 specifies how much land can be allocated, depending on where the land is situated. Article 15 concerns the management of public land.

Plan d'action forestier tropical pour l'Amérique Latine

Journal Articles & Books
November, 1988

En ouvrant la 8e session du Comit FAO de la mise en valeur des forts dans les tropiques, qui a sig Rome au milieu de septembre 1987 (voir Le monde forestier), M. D.J. Walton, Directeur gnral adjoint de la FAO, a tabli un parallle entre la situation de la foresterie aujourd'hui et celle de l'agriculture pendant les annes 70. C'est seulement lorsque les responsables extrieurs au secteur agricole se sont rendu compte du cot social et conomique de l'abandon de ce secteur que les choses ont commenc changer.

Guide diagnostic participatif des contraintes et des potentialités pour la gestion des sols et des éléments nutritifs des plantes

Reports & Research
November, 2002
Mozambique
Kenya
Philippines
Burundi
Tanzania
United Kingdom
India
Ethiopia
Pakistan
Eritrea

Ce guide présente des méthodes sélectionnées et des outils de diagnostic participatif des contraintes et des potentialités (DPCP) au niveau des familles et des communautés agricoles, afin de mieux comprendre les contraintes de gestion des sols et des éléments nutritifs des plantes et d’associer les agriculteurs dans la résolution de ces dernières.

Forestry in FAO

Journal Articles & Books
November, 1985
Kenya
Italy
Mexico
Brazil
Madagascar

This issue of Unasylva focuses on the fortieth anniversary of FAO - -and, in particular, on 40 years of work by FAO's Forestry Department. Here, and in the two issues that follow, we will, in addition to publishing articles on important forestry topics, be reprinting selected excerpts from early issues of Unasylva. This issue, for example, includes the major portion of an article from the very first Unasylva: "The disappearance of the tropical forests of Africa,'' by Andr Marie A.