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Responsible Governance of Land Tenure: an essential factor for the realization of the Right to Food

Reports & Research
November, 2010
Africa
Ethiopia
Kenya
Malawi
Ghana
Mali
Nigeria
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua
Bolivia
Colombia
Paraguay
Suriname
Northern America
United States of America
Asia
Tajikistan
Cambodia
Thailand
Vietnam
Bangladesh
Nepal
Europe

Land Tenure Working Paper 15. This publication brings to light the existing linkages between land tenure and the realization of the right to food. It points out that responsible governance of land requires the adoption of human rights-based approach in order to develop coherent and long term solutions to improve people’s livelihoods. The document presents the legal implications of the right to food at national level and provides a series of examples on the implementation of human rights principles and obligations into land tenure systems, policies, and institutional frameworks.

Perspectivas urbanas: temas críticos en políticas de suelo en América Latina

Reports & Research
November, 2010
Latin America and the Caribbean

Las políticas de uso y tributación del suelo han sido el tema central de muchos retos y experimentos en América Latina durante varias décadas, si no siglos. En el contexto de cambios extraordinarios en las realidades políticas, económicas y sociales de la región durante los últimos 15 años, el Instituto Lincoln ha orientado su interés especialmente hacia la investigación, oportunidades educativas y diseminación de información en materias del suelo y de tributación.

Prevenção e mediação de conflitos fundiários urbanos

Reports & Research
November, 2010
Brazil

Prevenção e mediação de conflitos fundiários urbanos Fatores geradores dos conflitos fundiários urbanos Passivo da desigualdade social das cidades brasileiras Prevenção de conflitos fundiários urbanos Mediação de conflitos fundiários urbanos Prevenção e mediação de conflitos fundiários urbanos na esfera de atuação do Ministério das Cidades

Land Tenure: A foundation for food security in Myanmar’s uplands (English)

Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2010
Myanmar

Access to land for smallholder farmers is a critical foundation for food security in Myanmar's uplands. Land tenure guarantees seem to be eroding and access to land becoming more difficult in some upland areas. If this trend continues it may have negative impacts for food security and undermine environmental and economic sustainability. This briefing paper explores the relationship between land tenure and food security, as well as key institutional and other factors that influence land access and tenure for smallholder farmers in the uplands today.

Land Tenure: A foundation for food security in Myanmar’s uplands (Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ )

Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2010
Myanmar

Access to land for smallholder farmers is a critical foundation for food security in Myanmar's uplands. Land tenure guarantees seem to be eroding and access to land becoming more difficult in some upland areas. If this trend continues it may have negative impacts for food security and undermine environmental and economic sustainability. This briefing paper explores the relationship between land tenure and food security, as well as key institutional and other factors that influence land access and tenure for smallholder farmers in the uplands today...

Saarland Land Use Planning Law.

Legislation
November, 2010
Germany

Within the framework of the Federal Land Use Planning Act of 22 December 2008 (BGBl. I p. 2986), the present Law regulates land use planning in the Saarland. The whole Saarland shall be subject to a sustainable planning policy. The text, consisting of 14 articles, deals with the following aspects: tasks of land use planning, land use planning authorities, land development plan, drawing up of the land development plan; environmental assessment, conservation of plan; special proceedings ; safeguard and implementation of land use plan, compensation and transitional and final provisions.

Zoning Regulation as Land Use Control Instrument

Peer-reviewed publication
August, 2010
United States of America
Indonesia
Singapore

One of local government authorities is the implementation of land use planning. Due to implementation land use planning, controlling is needed as effort for the implementation is appropriate with the planning. According to Spatial Planning Act No.26/2007, land use control instruments are zoning regulation, permit, incentive and disincentive, and sanction. In Indonesia, zoning regulation is new instrument and only a few of city that have made and uses zoning regulation as land use control instrument.

PROJETO E GESTÃO NA METRÓPOLE CONTEMPORÂNEA – Um estudo sobre as potencialidades do instrumento operação urbana consorciada à luz da experiência paulistana

Manuals & Guidelines
August, 2010
Brazil

Esta tese discute a operação urbana consorciada como instrumento de parceria entre o poder público e o setor privado para a promoção de projetos urbanos. O trabalho parte da hipótese de que a viabilização de intervenções urbanísticas por meio do instrumento estaria limitada   aplicação parcial da legislação e não   consecução de parcerias efetivas. Em 2001, a regulamentação nacional da operação urbana consorciada pelo Estatuto da Cidade trouxe inovações importantes no sentido de recuperar a essência do instrumento que aparentemente não foram assimiladas de forma equivalente.

Optimization of land and resource use at farm-aggregated level in the Aral Sea Basin of Uzbekistan with the integrated model FLEOM – model description and first application

Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2010
Uzbekistan
Central Asia

Land use and crop production in the Khorezm region in western Uzbekistan, exemplarily for the irrigated low-lands of Central Asia, is adversely affected by the excessive, non-sustainable use of irrigation water on one hand, repeated droughts on the other hand, and by soil degradation by secondary salinization.

Common Land Use Planning Ordinance.

Regulations
July, 2010
Germany

The present Ordinance lays down provisions implementing land use planning regulations for the common area of Berlin-Brandenburg. The specific purpose of the Ordinance is to ensure the compatibility of land use planning with the requirements of a sustainable development keeping future generations in mind. Projects of land use planning shall be dealt with by the competent authority within 6 months.