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Reports & Research
December 2009
Angola
Mozambique
Burkina Faso
South Africa
Burundi
Zimbabwe
Denmark
Botswana
Ghana
Guinea
Sudan
Brazil
Netherlands
Africa

Land Tenure Working Paper 14: Growing land scarcity and concern about land-related conflicts and rising levels of rural impoverishment have brought land to the fore once more.

Reports & Research
December 2009
Angola
Burkina Faso
Rwanda
Zambia
Mali
Burundi
China
Namibia
Eswatini
Ghana
Sierra Leone
Malawi
Niger
Mozambique
Liberia
South Africa
Uganda
Madagascar
Tanzania
Sudan
Georgia
Kenya
Europe
Asia
Africa
Northern America

Land Tenure Working Paper 11. This co-publication of FAO and UN-HABITAT seeks to better understand and define the processes, mechanisms and institutions of governance of tenure in rural and urban areas. The paper recognises that excellent land policies, laws and technical reforms have been developed. However, in many cases their implementation has slipped, stalled or even been reversed.

Journal Articles & Books
December 2009
Angola
France
Mauritius
Germany
Namibia
Indonesia
Australia
United Kingdom
Canada
United States of America
Japan
South Africa
Malaysia
Italy
Papua New Guinea
Norway

The ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) has been developed over the last decade in response to perceived and actual deficiencies in previous methods of management. The EAF recognizes that fish are only one albeit important part of a much wider ecosystem incorporating an array of physical and biological components that humans interact with and exploit.

Reports & Research
December 2008
Angola
France
Nigeria
Mali
Zimbabwe
China
Germany
Indonesia
Bolivia
Ghana
Colombia
Kenya
Japan
South Africa
Malaysia
Cameroon
Tanzania
Netherlands
Argentina
India
Sudan
Brazil
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Land Tenure Working Paper 1. This document analyzes the implications for land tenure and land policy of biofuels. It examines the current and likely future impacts of the increasing spread of biofuels on access to land in producer countries, particularly for poorer rural people.

Reports & Research
July 2008
Angola
Africa

Argues that the seizure of farmland for commercial diamond mining in Angola’s Lunda provinces is causing widespread hunger and deepening poverty. Fields are destroyed where crops are cultivated and arbitrary measurements taken to determine how much to pay the peasants; only US$0.25 per square metre of land seized. The law which ought to provide some protection is routinely ignored.

Reports & Research
December 2007
Angola
Timor-Leste
Rwanda
Iraq
Afghanistan
Burundi
Guatemala
Sri Lanka
Cyprus
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Congo
Pakistan
Colombia
Mozambique
Liberia
South Africa
Vietnam
Somalia
Italy
Cambodia
Sudan
Georgia
Uganda

The Pinheiro Principles provide restitution practitioners, as well as States and UN and others agencies, with a consolidated text relating to the legal, policy, procedural, institutional and technical implementation mechanisms for housing and property restitution.

Reports & Research
December 2007
Angola
Egypt
Benin
Nigeria
France
Guinea-Bissau
Congo
Djibouti
Comoros
Cameroon
Seychelles
Mozambique
Somalia
Madagascar
Italy
Tanzania
United Arab Emirates
Togo
Africa

The world’s mangroves 1980–2005 is a thematic study undertaken within the framework of the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005. It was led by FAO in collaboration with mangrove specialists throughout the world, and was co-funded by the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO).

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