In June 2011, the Oakland Institute (OI) released details of the largest land deal in Tanzania, which had been hidden away from public scrutiny prior to that and obscured from national debate and discussion.

The aim of this Instruction is to regulate rules and procedures of land and soil classification in accordance with Law No. 5403 on soil preservation and land utilization and the Regulation on the implementation of the Law No. 5403. The Instruction sets standards related to the determination, survey, analysis and classification of land and soil resources.

This WagingNonviolence.com article from March 2012 summarizes some of the current struggles for land rights against corporate re-colonization.

Este documento busca hacer énfasis en el derecho a la alimentación como un objetivo
primordial del conjunto de políticas públicas sobre desarrollo económico y social. Lograr
dicho objetivo depende de una gobernanza responsable de la tierra y demás recursos
naturales. La importancia de la tierra radica en que para muchas culturas representa el
vínculo directo con su propia identidad y la fuente principal de producción alimentaria en
sus distintas formas.

 "Land should be considered a right that is integrally linked to the right to live with dignity and essential for the fulfilment of several other human rights, including housing, food, health, work, water, and security. (...) Central (...) is the need to recognize women’s rights over land.

The Rangelands Observatory

The International Land Coalition (ILC) believes that a fair and effective monitoring of ongoing conversion and fragmentation of rangeland ecosystems is needed in order to provide a thorough understanding of the trends and their implications – and also to enhance informed and participatory decision making on land use and investments in rangelands, and on the trade-offs involved.

To this aim, a Rangeland Observatory (RO) project has been established.

This Regional Law regulates relations regarding transactions with agricultural land, establishes terms and conditions of allotment of plots of agricultural land pertaining to public and municipal land, and also establishes maximum land area of the plots of agricultural land. It shall not be applicable to agricultural land destined for subsidiary private farming, gardening and horticulture. Minimum land area of a plot of agricultural land cannot be less than a land share in common land ownership.

The purpose of this Regulation is to facilitate the best possible utilization of grazing in wild areas, reducing the loss of animals on pastures and promoting joint initiatives in pastures. Subsidy shall be granted for a minimum of 50% of costs, however shall not be granted to investment projects and / or planning and organizing projects in pastures for a period shorter than 10 years. Applicants of such subsidies shall be required to provide all information that the county governor and the Norwegian Agricultural Authority deems necessary to administer.

This Regional Law regulates relations dealing with ownership, tenure and disposal of agricultural land plots. In order to regulate the aforesaid issues authorized regional state institution in the sphere of land relations. Agricultural land shall be used exclusively for specific agricultural purposes by methods preventing damages, such as degradation, pollution, littering up and other negative impact. Owners of agricultural land plots must carry out periodically soil fertility tests.

This Regional Law regulates relations dealing with ownership, tenancy and disposal of agricultural land. Maximum land area of agricultural land that can be owned by a single natural or legal person shall not exceed 20 percent or total agricultural alnd area within a given territory. Agricultural land plot can be expropriated in accordance with court decision in case of unpurposeful use thereof. In case of purchase and sale of agricultural land plots regional administration shall have preferential right of purchase.

This Regional law regulates turnover of agricultural land. It establishes maximum land areas of agricultural land out of stock of public agricultural land that can be allotted to and to be owned by a single natural or legal person as 10 percent of total available agricultural land area on the territory of a given municipal unit.

In this article, I address whether activities meant to improve land tenure security may havesupported or undermined peace-building during the postwar stabilization and transitionperiod of 2005–2008. In 2005, the population of Aceh began recovery from both a 29-yearseparatist war and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. Property and tenure systems wereseverely damaged by both the war and tsunami.