Natural resource management increasingly plays a pivotal role in the
transition of post-confl ict societies towards a lasting peace. This role is not
limited to societies where confl ict has been directly fueled by high-value
natural resources such as timber or minerals. Unresolved issues surrounding
land tenure administration can reignite tensions, and the inability of
government to deliver key services (water, food, shelter, and other resourcedependent
essentials for life) can destabilize weakened societies that are

The ongoing HIV/AIDS pandemic in southern Africa continues to manifest itself in unexpected ways. While the consequences of the disease appear straightforward in some aspects—eg., medical, labor, cost—in other respects the repercussions, while large, are nonetheless highly nuanced and can be counterintuitive.

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.

This page is meant to provide a quick overview of major reference to women's land rights in existing international instruments, as well as paragraphs related to women  - or more broadly gender - in the First Draft of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the context of National Food Security (VGs). The VGs are still under-negotiations under the auspices of the Committee of World Food Security, and are therefore still subject to change.

Situation and structure of land relations is in each state result of long-term development of society. Structure of agricultural land ownership in Slovakia is likewise as also in other EU states different from structure of agricultural land use. In administration of the Slovak Land Fund it is still at present (2005) app. 25% of agricultural land. The agricultural land market is marked with previous period and it is up to now poor developed. The reasons are economic as well as legal one.

Dear all,

This is the latest study by FIAN and EuropAfrica about the impact of the EU biofuel policy on land grabbing and human rights in Africa, with an analysis of the legal responsibliity of the EU and its Members States for their obligations according to international and EU law.

Best regards,

Sylvain

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Sylvain Aubry

Human rights consultant

Specialist in economic, social and cultural rights

This Act aims at transferring to the national park estate certain river red gum State forest lands in the Riverina area; enabling the transfer to Aboriginal ownership and conservation of certain other State forest lands in the Riverina area; enabling forestry operations to continue on land in the Riverina area remaining as State forest; enabling the collection of firewood for non-commercial purposes to continue in areas reserved as national or regional parks; etc.

Annual Report of Community Self Reliance Centre(CSRC), 2011

Dear Sir/ Madam

Please see my blog published on website of Responding to Climate Change (RTCC);

Desertification action not possible until fair land management addressed

25 April 2012

By Tanveer Arif

Last Friday 11 of May was an important day for millions of poor rural people and small scale farmers whose rights of access to natural resources were recognized for the first time ever.