Land Tenure Working Paper 14: Growing land scarcity and concern about land-related conflicts and rising levels of rural impoverishment have brought land to the fore once more. The main difference with the recent past is the wide spectrum of actors who want to take part in the elaboration of the land policies, as well as the more and more recognized need to root the proposals in the particular context of each specific country. The paper, focused on African experiences, starts by discussing the importance of Land Policy Issues at Regional Level.

土地权属及管理处 10. 本讨论文件由粮农组织土地权属及管理处起草，目的是为了征求对负责任 的土地和其他自然资源权属治理自愿准则的看法和意见。衰弱的权属治理可导 致生命和生计损失，阻碍投资和经济的全面增长，并妨碍自然资源的可持续利 用。相比之下

Document de travail sur les régimes fonciers 11. Cette publication conjointe entre la FAO et UN-HABITAT cherche à améliorer et à mieux définir les processus, mécanismes et institutions de gouvernance foncières dans les zones rurales et urbaines. Ce document, tout en soulignant l’excellence des politiques, législations et réformes techniques foncières, en termes d’élaboration, relève toutefois un certain nombre de problèmes de mise en œuvre, en constatant des glissements, des interruptions, voire même des inversions.

É com grande satisfação que o Ministério das Cidades, em seu esforço contínuo para disseminar e implementar a Política Nacional de Regularização Fundiária Urbana, apresenta a terceira edição da publicação "REGULARIZAÇÃO FUNDIÁRIA URBANA: Como aplicar a Lei nº 11.977/2009?". Elaborado conjuntamente pela Secretaria Nacional de Habitação e pela Secretaria Nacional de Acessibilidade e Programas Urbanos, este documento tem por objetivo divulgar as possibilidades do marco jurídico da regularização fundiária: a Lei nº 11.977 de 07 de julho de 2009.

Este documento foi elaborado a partir da parceria do Ministério das Cidades com o Cities Alliance, visando a implementação do Banco de Experiências de Regularização Fundiária do Ministério. Apresenta a experiência de regularização fundiária no município do Rio de Janeiro.

Bangladesh has a very high population density. Scarce land and the rapid increase of population of the country are creating high pressure over land-man ratio. Land ownership record system is insufficient and incomplete in Bangladesh. As a result, it spills out jumbled and spontaneous land development throughout the country, especially in the major cities. In this situation, it is important to establish a compatible land administration and management system for establishing a systematic approach for planned land development.

Del Desarrollo Rural al Socialismo Agrario en Venezuela
 Carina Salazar*

Armed conflict broke out in Côte d’Ivoire in 2002, which caused the country to be divided in two: the north under the control of the Forces Nouvelles rebels and the south in the hands of the government. It also caused the mass displacement of hundreds of thousands of people. In the west of the country, and in particular in the two regions of Moyen Cavally and Dix-Huit Montagnes, the crisis provoked a series of successive displacements involving population groups with competing claims over land.

Reclassifying 9,977 hectares of land in Butom Sakor National Park in Koh Kong province for agro-industry investment under lease or concession condition.

Determining 36,296 hectares as sustainable use zones in Snoul Wildlife Sanctuary in Kratie province and in Preah Soramrith Kosamak "Kirirom" National Park in Kampong Spue province and granting the land to 6 companies for agro-industry, rubber and other trees plantation, and eco-tourism investments (5,059 hectares in Snoul Wildlife Sanctuary in Kratie for rubber plantation investment to Viet-Nam Kampuchia Economy, Trade and Industry Company Limited (VKETI) Co., Ltd; 9,855 hectares in Snoul Wildlife Sanctuary in Kratie for rubber plantation and agro-industry investment to Memot Rubber Plantat

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been trying hard to go into free trade agreements (FTAs) with different countries. It believes that this will increase trade and help members sell their export products to more markets in other countries. It also wants to make ASEAN the world's center of agricultural production. But in opening up markets and increasing trade, more imported goods from other countries can also come in.