The Regulation consists of 6 Sections dealing with the following matters: 1) general provisions (sect. 1); 2) preparatory work (sect. 2); 3) field work (sect. 3); 4) laboratory work (sect. 4); 5) mapping (sect. 5); 6) legalization and issuing of land certificates (sect. 6). The purpose of agrochemical inspection of soil of peasant farms shall have as its purpose obtaining the reliable quantitative, qualitative and land valuation data in order to fill in the State land ownership certificate for hereditary lifelong possession of the plots of land.

The Regulation consists of 3 Sections dealing with the following matters: 1) general provisions (sect. 1); 2) the modalities of calculation of preferential value of land (sect. 2); 3) the modalities of valuation of agricultural land (sect. 3). The present Regulation shall be applicable for the calculation of preferential and normative value of land transferred in private ownership for subsidiary small-holding, housing and gardening. Land charges for land transferred in private ownership shall be compulsory for all citizens.

These Rules implement provisions of the Distress for Rent Act with respect to certificates for a licensed auctioneer to seize and secure any stock or crops loose and not attached to the land under lease for purposes of distress. Certificates may be either general or special. A special certificate shall specify the particular distress or distresses to which it applies.

Implements: Distress for Rent Act (Cap. 293). (2006)

These Rules regulate the occupation of land, the cultivation of land and the herding and grazing of stock in an area defined in Schedule 4 to these Rules. The Settlement Officer shall decide on the granting of licensing for the occupation and cultivation of land and the herding and grazing of any bull, cow, bullock heifer, calf, ox, sheep, goat, mule, donkey or swine and shall be assisted by a committee established under these Rules.

These Rules regulate the occupation of land and the possession, herding or grazing in an area defined in the Schedule to these Rules. A person shall only occupy land or possess, herd or depasture any bull, cow, ox, heifer, calf, sheep, goat, mule, donkey or swine if registered with the Settlement Officer. The Settlement Officer shall be advised on questions covered by these Rules by a committee appointed by him or her under these Rules. A registered person may occupy such area of land and keep a number of stock as is indicated in the register.

The purpose of the present Ordinance is to regulate the enforcement of the federal legislation on rural land law. Article 2 lays down provisions relating to the composition and tasks of the Land Law Commission. The text – consisting of 12 articles – deals with the following matters: land valuation, competent surveying authority, proceedings, sphere of application, agricultural land and entry into force.

Implements: Loi fédérale sur le droit foncier rural (LDFR). (2014-01-01)

Rural areas are not exempted from the impacts of globalisation. Global trends affecting agriculture are particularly significant in this respect. A number of options are available to developing countries in responding to these trends. Given the scarcity of resources it is important that they choose carefully. If they fail to respond, rural areas will become even more marginalized than they are already.

Two images have dominated the northern media in recent months.The first is of desolation in remote, rural areas in Africa affected by drought, conflict or famine, such as in Somalia, northern Kenya or Darfur, Sudan. The second is a different kind of desolation - that of urban squalor as portrayed in the film «The Constant Gardener». Nairobi's Kibera, which provides a backdrop for the film, is a bustling shantytown with a population of ca.

The rural areas of the South have undergone vital socio-economic and technological changes marked by globalisation, economic liberalization and political decentralization and by the information and communication sector. Will these changes suffice to improve the living standards of the rural population and lessen the urban-rural gap or will the rural sector remain in isolation and be also in ten years time home of the poor?

Urbanisation and economic transformation - the growth of non-farm, industrial and service sectors - offer many opportunities for improvements in poor people's lives.The crucial challenge is to ensure that places work better for people, providing an enabling and supporting environment for changing livelihoods and economies. But all too often there is a failure to recognise and manage the urban transition, resulting in the continuing urbanisation of poverty, vulnerability and exclusion.

This Regional Law establishes that the prices of plots of urban land destined for agricultural production in ownership by agricultural organizations or peasant farms allotted thereto on condition of permanent (open-ended) land tenure or as life-long hereditary possession shall be established with 15 percent reduction in relation to its cadastre value.

This Regional Law establishes maximum cost of territorial land-use planning and land survey for plots of land destined for individual subsistence farming, gardening, vegetable growing calculated for 100 square metres of the territory.