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Tunisia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Somalia, Zambia, Benin, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Colombia, Laos, Pakistan, Finland, Ireland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland
The leaflet will provide an overview of in-country projects and achevements as well as regional initiatives. Articles include but are not limited to: Community lands at the core of Kenya’s new legal reforms; The Voluntary Guidelines: an instrumental tool in the pursuit of climate mitigation goals and REDD+; Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure: an opportunity for peacebuilding in Colombia; Strengthening collaboration for the successful implementation of Sierra Leone’s Na tional Land Policy ; Enhancing food security through land policy reform in Somalia.
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Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Niger, Argentina, Pakistan, Czech Republic, Romania, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Serbia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Papua New Guinea
This issue of the Land Tenure Journal includes a geographically and technically diverse range of papers covering Europe, Africa, and Asia.
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Dominica, Burkina Faso, Honduras, Belgium, Uzbekistan, South Africa, Lesotho, Uganda, Spain, Zimbabwe, Denmark, Germany, Tanzania, Zambia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Senegal, Italy, Brazil, Switzerland
From the outset, the development of agriculture has been strongly associated with women’s endeavour. In fact, women’s contribution to agriculture goes back to the origins of farming and the domestication of animals when the first human settlements were established more than 6 000 years ago. Over the years, the division of responsibilities and labour within households and communities tended to place farming and nutrition-related tasks under women’s domain. Nowadays, in many societies women continue to be mainly responsible for family food security and nutrition.
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Madagascar, Malawi, Uganda, Lesotho, South Africa, Liberia, Niger, Senegal, Guatemala, Mongolia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland
The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) promotes secure tenure rights and equitable access to land, fisheries and forests as a means of eradicating hunger and poverty, supporting sustainable development and enhancing the environment. The guidelines were officially endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) on 11 May 2012. 2. The Guidelines serve as a reference and set of principles and internationally accepted norms or practices for the responsible governance of tenure.
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Malawi, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Guatemala, Brazil, United States of America, Cambodia, Myanmar, India, Nepal, Sweden, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland
Putting the voluntary guidelines on tenure into practice: a learning guide for civil society organizations is a learning guide which has been designed specifically to give civil society and grassroots organizations a deeper understanding of the VGGT. It provides civil society organizations with a methodology and a set of materials to undertake training on the VGGT with civil society actors from the grassroots to the national level. Trainees will learn how to apply the VGGT to actual tenure gover nance.
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La présente loi met en exécution, entre autres, la loi du 20 juin 2001 sur le développement rural et l’ordonnance 7 décembre 1998 sur les améliorations structurelles dans l'agriculture (ordonnance sur les améliorations structurelles) (OAS)5).
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The present Ordinance enforces the Building Law of 12 June 1994. Article 1 establishes that the competent Department shall prepare the cantonal structural plan in cooperation with the cantonal offices. The Department shall ensure the participation of municipalities and shall consult federal authorities and neighbouring cantons. Other interested parties shall also be heard. The text consists of 41 articles divided into 4 Parts as follows: Planning proceedings (I); Building permit proceedings (II); Legal protection (IIII); Transitional and final provisions (IV).
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The present Law shall apply to all matters concerning expropriation and consequences of expropriation proceedings in the Canton Luzern. The text consists of 90 articles divided into 11 Parts as follows: Sphere of application (I); Expropriation Law (II); Compensation ((III); Expropriation proceedings (IV); Valuation proceedings (V); Execution (VI); Reclamation right (VII); Limitation of ownership (VIII); Various provisions (IX); Transitional and final provisions (X).
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La présente ordonnance est relative à la taxe pour l’assainissement des sites contaminés. En particulier, l’ordonnance régit: a) la perception d’une taxe sur le stockage définitif de déchets en Suisse et sur l’exportation de déchets destinés au stockage définitif à l’étranger; b) l’affectation du produit de la taxe au paiement d’indemnités pour: 1) l’investigation, la surveillance et l’assainissement de sites pollués, 2) l’investigation de sites qui se révèlent non pollués.
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Switzerland, Zambia, Germany, Madagascar, Tanzania, Australia, United Kingdom, Ghana, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Italy, Canada, Netherlands
تقرّ الخطوط التوجيهية الطوعية بشأن الحوكمة المسؤولة لحيازة الأراضي، ومصايد الأسماك، والغابات، في سياق الأمن الغذائي الوطني بأنّ الاستثمارات المسؤولة التي ينفّذها القطاعان العام والخاص أساسية لتحسين الأمن الغذائي، وتدعو إلى استثمارات تصون مستخدمي الأراضي ومالكيها من خطر نزع ملكيتهم لحقوق الحيازة المشروعة. ويوفّر هذا الدليل الفني توجيهات مفصّلة للسلطات الحكومية المنخرطة في جهود تشجيع الاستثمارات والموافقة عليها ورصدها في جميع مراحل دورة الاستثمار، بشأن الإجراءات التي يمكن اتخاذها لإرساء بيئة مؤاتية للاستثمارات المسؤولة والمستدامة.
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