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  1. Library Resource
    wrm bulletin

    WRM Bulletin 254 – Jan/Feb 2021

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2021
    Mozambique, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Liberia, Nigeria, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand

    The articles in this Bulletin are written by the following organizations and individuals: National Coordinator for the Defense of the Mangrove Ecosystem (C-CONDEM), Ecuador; Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakya (Bentala Raya Heritage Foundation), Indonesia; Venezuelan Observatory of Political Ecology and members of the WRM international secretariat in close collaboration with several allies who are part of grassroots groups in different countries.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    May, 2015
    Mozambique

    The loss of woodland in Mozambique is more than an environmental issue. Choices about land use — whether made locally, provincially or nationally — affect the availability of water, firewood, fertile land and other ‘ecosystem services’ delivered by woodlands. When these services underpin food security and routes out of poverty, what happens to woodlands becomes as much about people.

  3. Library Resource

    Study on Community Land Rights in Niassa Province, Mozambique

    Journal Articles & Books
    June, 2009
    Mozambique

    The main aim of this study was to assess, within the context of the Malonda Programme
    in Niassa Province, the implementation of community consultations and negotiations as
    well as the delimitation and demarcation of community land. These activities had been
    carried out within the context of requests from several investors concerning the Right to
    Use and Exploit Land (Portuguese acronym DUAT, Direito de Uso e Aproveitamento
    de Terra), in order to create extensive commercial forest plantations in Niassa. The

  4. Library Resource
    Other legal document
    January, 2005
    Mozambique

    Moçambique é um dos países da SADC que ainda possui consideráveis recursos florestais e faunísticos. Estes recursos são de especial importância para o país, pela sua dimensão ambiental, social e económica. A exploração e utilização dos recursos florestais e faunísticos, da forma como vem sendo realizada, ameaça a conservação e a perpetuação destes recursos a médio e longo prazo.

  5. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2016
    Kenya

    Matters of environmental migration are frequently looked at from a humanitarian perspective.1 This policy brief will instead look at it with a lens focusing on land issues. The question of environmental migration is inevitably linked to the question of land for several reasons. First, climate and environmental change trigger and accelerate the loss of land due to sea-level rise, coastal erosion, landslides and other forms of land degradation.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    September, 2014
    Kenya

    The first set of the land laws were enacted in 2012 in line with the timelines outlined in the Constitution of Kenya 2010. In keeping with the spirit of the constitution, the Land Act, Land Registration Act and the national Land Commission Act respond to the requirements of Articles 60, 61, 62, 67 & 68 of the Constitution. The National Land Policy, which was passed as Sessional Paper No. 3 of 2009, arrived earlier than the Constitution, with some radical proposals on the land Management.

  7. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    December, 2015
    Kenya

    A Bill for AN ACT of Parliament to consolidate the laws relating to energy, to provide for National and County Government functions in relation to energy,to provide for the establishment, powers and functions of the energy sector entities; promotion of renewable energy; exploration, recovery and commercial utilization of geothermal energy; regulation of midstream and downstream petroleum and coal activities; regulation, production, supply and use of electricity and other energy forms; and for connected purposes.

  8. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    December, 2015
    Kenya

    A BILL for AN ACT of Parliament to provide a framework for the contracting, exploration, development and production of petroleum; cessation of upstream petroleum operations; to give effect to relevant articles of the Constitution in so far as they apply to upstream petroleum operations; and for connected purposes.

  9. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    December, 2013
    Kenya

    THE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ACT, 2013 No. 47 of 2013

    Date of Assent: 24th December, 2013

    Date of Commencement: 10th January, 2014

  10. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    September, 2016
    Kenya

    THE FOREST CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ACT, 2016 No. 34 of 2016

    Date of Assent: 31st August, 2016

    Date of Commencement: By Notice

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