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Resolution No. 116/2017 ratifying the Tourism Land Use Planning (POT) of the Touristic Area of Salamansa (ZTS).

Regulations
October, 2017
Cape Verde

This Resolution, consisting of 82 articles divided into seven Chapters and 16 Annexes, ratifies the Tourist Planning Plan (POT) of the Tourist Zone of Salamansa (ZTS), within the island of São Vicente. It includes reports of the Plan for urban areas, as well as environmental and landscape domain, the Plan Regulation and drawings, which constitute the framework and the charters.

Decreto Nº 105-2017 ─ Modifica el Decreto Nº 335-2013, Ley de fortalecimiento de la camaricultura.

Legislation
October, 2017
Honduras

El presente Decreto Legislativo modifica la Ley de fortalecimiento de la camaricultura, respecto a la creación del Registro Especial Asociado de Concesiones o Contratos de Arrendamiento de Playones Nacionales para el Cultivo de Camarón, el cual está a cargo del Instituto de la Propiedad (IP), en el que debe inscribirse otorgamiento, modificación, cancelación, transmisión y gravamen de casa concesión; así mismo, debe inscribirse las mejoras actuales o futuras que los concesionarios efectúen en los predios otorgados en arrendamientos por el Estado (Artículo 6º).

Regional Law No. 131-OZ amending Regional Law No. 7-OZ “On ensuring fertility of agricultural land”.

Legislation
October, 2017
Russia

Article 2 shall be amended to add the following wording: “State regulation of the fertility of agricultural land shall be considered development and approval of norms and rules in the field of ensuring the fertility of agricultural land”.

Amends: Regional Law No. 7-OZ “On ensuring fertility of agricultural land”. (2013-12-25)

Mozambique: food Security and land governance

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2017
Mozambique

Mozambique has a land governance system that allows for strong protection of community-based land rights, community consultation with respect to partnerships with investors, and also secure rights to land for investors. However, the implementation of legislation has been slow and the capacity among state actors is weak. Tensions exist between a government keen on promoting foreign investment and agro-industry and a rural population that is insufficiently aware of and not always able to exercise their legal rights.

Land tenure in rural lowland Myanmar

Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
September, 2017
Myanmar

This study emerged out of an identified need to document social processes leading to land insecurity, and those leading to investment and sustainable use of lands by rural populations. Focusing on the Delta and Dry Zone, the main paddy producing regions of Myanmar, this analysis unravels the powers at play in shaping rural households’ relationship to land.

Designing a Legal Regime to Capture Capital Gains Tax on Indirect Transfers of Mineral and Petroleum Rights: A Practical Guide

Manuals & Guidelines
September, 2017
Global

This document provides practical guidance to address the taxation of Indirect Transfers of assets of extractive industries. It focuses on issues that developing country governments may wish to consider if they adopt a policy to tax such transfers. In doing so, it examines the language of the legislative and regulatory provisions employed by countries that have adopted such a policy to tax and comments on the pros and cons of these provisions.

Policy brief by Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria

Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2017
Nigeria
Sub-Saharan Africa

This policy brief serves to aid policy for land management especially in Cross River State, Nigeria. Following incessant conflicts between communities and investors (individuals, companies, multinational etc.) within the rainforest communities in Nigeria, and Cross River state in particular, Environmental Right Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FOEN) conducted a study anchored on bottom-up accountability and governance: securing community tenure rights to land in impacted communities in Betem, Akpet, Idoma and Akamkpa in Cross River State Nigeria.

Decree-Law No. 43/2017 redefining the Southern Integral Tourism Development Zone of "Baia das Gatas" on the island of São Vicente.

Legislation
September, 2017
Cape Verde

This Decree-Law, redefines the Southern Integral Tourism Development Zone (ZDTI) of "Baia das Gatas" within the island of São Vicente. It establishes new configuration of the above mentioned zone, taking into account that the previous amendment did not take into account the people agglomeration of the Northern ZDTI of the Baia das Gatas that is contained in the Southern ZDTI.

Décret n° 2017-1594 du 13 septembre 2017 relatif aux attributions du ministre de l’environnement et du développement durable.

Regulations
September, 2017
Senegal

Le présent décret fixe les attributions du ministre de l’environnement et du développement durable. Sous l’autorité du Premier Ministre, le Ministre de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable prépare et met en œuvre la politique définie par le Chef de l’Etat en matière de veille environnementale, de lutte contre les pollutions et de protection de la nature, de la faune et de la flore.

Adaptation of land management in the Mediterranean under scenarios of irrigation water use and availability

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2017

Meeting the growing demand for food in the future will require adaptation of water and land management to future conditions. We studied the extent of different adaptation options to future global change in the Mediterranean region, under scenarios of water use and availability. We focused on the most significant adaptation options for semiarid regions: implementing irrigation, changes to cropland intensity, and diversification of cropland activities.