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Reform State-Owned Forest Enterprise and Ethnic Minority Land Tenure Security in Vietnam

Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2016
Vietnam

During revolution and national unification, Vietnamese government nationalized agricultural and forest land throughout the country. While agricultural land was de-collectivized in the Doi moi reforms since mid-1980s, the majority of forest and forest land has continued to be managed by state enterprises. For members of Vietnam’s 53 recognized ethnic minority groups, the formation of state-owned forest enterprises (SFEs) has meant the end of customary tenure arrangements, leading to exclusion from traditional lands used for agriculture, hunting, and collection of non-timber forest products.

DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LAND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: AN IMPETUS OR A DETERRENT TO EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT LAND MANAGEMENT IN KENYA?

Journal Articles & Books
February, 2016
Kenya

A Land Information Management System (LIMS) is an information system that enables the capture, management, and analysis of geographically referenced land-related data in order to produce land information for decision-making in land administration and management. The system is a Geospatial Information System (GIS) driven for the purposes of handling and managing parcel based information. The Republic of Kenya, located in East Africa, ranks 33rd in the world in terms of population with 38.6 million people and has a land area of 224,081 square miles.