Land-use conflict is not a new phenomenon for pastoralists and farmers in Tanzania with murders, the killing of livestock and the loss of property as a consequence of this conflict featuring in the news for many years now. Various actors, including civil society organisations, have tried to address farmer–pastoralist conflict through mass education programmes, land-use planning, policy reforms and the development of community institutions. However, these efforts have not succeeded in the conflict. Elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa traditional systems are not making much headway either.

In the accelerating process of urbanization and social transition era, industrialization, urbanization and construction of urban-rural integration also inevitably leads to the land expropriation, land conflicts have become important issues in the development process.

Este informe expone dos casos de conflictos por procesos de desposesión territorial. El primero aborda la dramática situación que viven los habitantes de la comunidad garífuna de Barra Vieja, en el litoral atlántico hondureño, contra quienes el Estado ha desatado una persecución judicial feroz.

La presente Resolución adopta la metodología y parámetros técnicos para el procedimiento de compra directa de predios, de conformidad con los criterios generales para la ejecución del programa de adquisición directa de bienes, y que tiene como objeto definir y desarrollar la metodología y parámetros técnicos para la compra directa de predios, tomando como referencia las órdenes judiciales de compensación a víctimas y las medidas de atención a los segundos ocupantes reconocidos por sentencia judicial ejecutoriada.La guía metodológica y parámetros técnicos para el procedimiento de adquisición

El presente Acuerdo tiene por objeto establecer los procedimientos que la dependencia encargada de tierras, sea la Subsecretaría de Tierras y Reforma Agraria o la unidad administrativa que la reemplace, por delegación de la Autoridad Agraria Nacional, debe ejecutar para dar cumplimiento a las disposiciones contenidas en la Ley Orgánica de Tierras Rurales y Territorios Ancestrales y su Reglamento General de aplicación.

Este informe impulsa, incentiva y reúne diversas miradas y posicionamientos, que emergen de las formas de acompañamiento comprometido a los movimientos por la tierra y defensa de territorios en siete países de Sudamérica.

Date: Avril 2017

Source: Uneca.org

In Ghana, farmer-herder conflicts have become widespread and increasingly assume a violent dimension. Competition over access to and use of land and water resources is at the center of the conflicts. However, competition does not automatically result in conflicts. The conflicts are driven by triggering activities of both farmers and herders. This study identifies triggers of farmer-herder conflicts in the Upper West Region of Ghana and tests the level of agreement among key stakeholder groups on the triggers of these conflicts.

This study is prepared using the data analysis of a field study conducted in January 2017 in the Districts of Monaragala, Ampara, Trincomalee, Mullaitivu and Jaffna in Sri Lanka focusing on the land rights violations that took place in the recent past due to the appropriation of land from the ordinary citizens by the security forces and individuals backed by powerful people and, the tenure security problems faced by the landless rural communities in Monaragala and Ampara districts and the sugar cane farmers living in the settlements of Pelwatta Sugar Company, which is now owned by the gover

The spatial patterns resulting from large fires include refugial habitats that support surviving legacies and promote ecosystem recovery. To better understand the diverse ecological functions of refugia on burn mosaics, we used remotely sensed data to quantify neighborhood patterns of areas relatively unchanged following the 2011 Las Conchas fire. Spatial patterns of refugia measured within 10-ha moving windows varied across a gradient from areas of high density, clustered in space, to sparsely populated neighborhoods that occurred in the background matrix.

La présente ordonnance crée une Direction nationale des Domaines dont la mission est d’élaborer les éléments de la politique nationale relative au domaine et au foncier et d’assurer et d’assurer la coordination et le contrôle de la mise en œuvre de ladite politique.A ce titre, il est chargé de: élaborer et de mettre en œuvre la législation et la réglementation domaniale et foncière; réaliser des études pour l’amélioration des recettes domaniales et foncières; gérer le patrimoine immobilier non bâti de l’Etat; procéder à la location des immeubles non bâtis de l’Etat au profit des tiers; proc

Issues swirling around land across Africa have never been so central to key social and political-economic dynamics as they are at the present time. The first part of the paper briefly reviews the construction of customary tenure and the historical phases of administrative interventions into land tenure, and considers their heritage in contemporary situations.