Communities of Grand Cape Mount, Liberia

March 25th, 2013

ICRAF Policy Brief 14 presents experience from the Sustainable Agriculture in a Changing Climate (SACC) project carried out in Western Kenya, a joint partnership of CARE, ICRAF and the Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Program of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

Oxfam International

This Regional Law grants the right of free allotment of land on condition of ownership to multi-child families with three or more natural or adopted dependent children in possession of RF citizenship. The aforesaid land allotment shall be authorized once-only. Land shall be allotted for agricultural purposes (subsistence farming, gardening, agriculture or for housing construction) with dimensions of land area in accordance with rates of allotment validated by local government.

Food First & Transnational Institute

In the face of violent dispossession and incorporation into an exploitative labor regime, indigenous peasant families in northern Guatemala are struggling to access land and defend their resources as the basis of their collective identity as Q'eqchi' peoples or R'al Ch'och ("sons and daughters of the earth"). This brief is the first in the Land & Sovereignty in the Americas series, co-published by Food First and the Transnational Institute.

This Regional Law classifies protected categories of citizens that shall have the right to allotment on condition of ownership of public and municipal land free of charge related to urban land for individual housing construction and agricultural land for subsistence farming.

Article 1 shall be amended to add the following wording: “The right to allotment on condition of ownership of public and municipal land free of charge for gardening, horticulture and suburban housing construction shall be granted to multi-child families, foster families growing three and more children (adopted and natural children) residing on the regional territory”.

Amends: Regional Law No. 809-OD “On allotment of public and municipal land to citizens free of charge”. (2009-06-23)

The International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development took place in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2006. A summary Final Report on the conference can be found Here. Attached are the resources, presentations, and papers from the conference.

European Coordination Via Campesina and Hands Off the Land Network

This Regional Law establishes categories of workers that have the right to service land allotment. Service land allotment shall be granted to: (a) game managers and gamekeepers; (b) forest officers and workers of forestry organizations; (c) fishery managers and fishermen of coastal fishery organizations; (d) railway line personnel and highway maintenance and keeping personnel. Service land allotment shall be granted for gardening, vegetable growing, stockbreeding, haymaking and grazing.

This Regional Law establishes that maximum land area that can be owned or held in tenancy by subsistence farmers shall be 19 ha.

This Regional Law shall be applicable to all gardening, horticultural and subsistence farming non-commercial organizations, non-governmental entities and cooperatives. It regulates the issues of state registration of the aforesaid entities and establishes legal status thereof. Citizens shall be granted the right to carry our gardening, horticulture and subsistence farming either as cooperatives and associations or individually. Farmers must develop their land plots for agricultural purposes within three years since the date of allotment and ensure purposeful use of land plots.