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Soils on the global agenda: developing international mechanisms for sustainable land management

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2006
Global
land management
sustainable land management
This report contributes to the aim of the International Union of Soil Sciences to put sustainable land management higher on the global agenda. The report is divided into three distinct sections:Part I discusses the global soils agenda and outlines experiences and strategies for sustainable land management. It also highlights challenges related to implementing this agenda globallyPart II presents summaries of papers on the development of international mechanisms and instruments for sustainable land management (SLM).
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Will formalising property rights reduce poverty in South Africa's 'second economy'?: Questioning the mythologies of Hernando de Soto

January, 2005
South Africa
land management
property rights
Does providing increased access to secure property rights have a positive impact on people's livelihoods? This policy brief questions Hernando de Soto's contention that capitalism can be made to work for the poor, through formalising their property rights in houses, land and small businesses.
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Some outstanding issues in the debate on external promotion of land privatisation

January, 2005
Kenya
land
property
Since the early 1990s, the dominant consensus in the debate on land rights reform in sub-Saharan Africa has been that external interventions to privatise land rights are usually inappropriate and likely to remain so.
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PARTICIPATORY and NEGOTIATED TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT (PNTD)

Legislation & Policies
January, 2005
Global
agrarian reform
land rights
rural development
land governance
land area
capacity development
natural resources management
Territorial Development: an innovative approach
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Growing better cities

Urban Agriculture for sustainable development

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2006
Global
Urban Tenure
agriculture
environment
food security
natural resources management
research
urban planning
The United Nations predicts that over the next 25 years nearly all population growth will be in the cities of the developing world. At current rates, 60% of the world’s total population will live in cities by 2030. As the cities grow, so does the number of urban poor. Unemployment, hunger, and malnutrition are commonplace. In the big city, most of any cash income the poor might bring home goes to feeding themselves and staying alive; any food that does not have to be bought is a bonus.
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Growing better cities

Urban Agriculture for sustainable development

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2006
Global
agriculture
environment
food security
natural resources management
The United Nations predicts that over the next 25 years nearly all population growth will be in the cities of the developing world. At current rates, 60% of the world’s total population will live in cities by 2030. As the cities grow, so does the number of urban poor. Unemployment, hunger, and malnutrition are commonplace. In the big city, most of any cash income the poor might bring home goes to feeding themselves and staying alive; any food that does not have to be bought is a bonus.
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Wildlife Management and Village Land Tenure in Northern Tanzania

Reports & Research
January, 2005
Tanzania
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
common property
land governance
land policies
land conflicts
natural resources management
environment
This paper explores and analyses contemporary contests over land tenure in
northern Tanzania’s village lands as they relate to wildlife management and land policy
and legislation. It details the nature of the contests and conflicts, including their legal
aspects, and further seeks to diagnose the underlying political economic reasons behind
these endemic conflicts. It concludes by relating these underlying issues to the broader
macroeconomic environment and efforts to improve the security of local land tenure in
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Land Tenure, Land Use and Sustainability in Kenya: Towards Innovative Use of Property Rights in Wildlife Management

Reports & Research
January, 2005
Kenya
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
common property
land policies
natural resources management
environment
The report considers the different laws and policies relevant to wildlife management in Kenya, and critiques these in relation to conceptual and legal problems, ecological and institutional problems. It suggests a rethinking of property rights for wildlife management so that local communities can better benefit.
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AGRICULTURAL LAND MARKET IN LATVIA

Reports & Research
January, 2005
Latvia
agrarian reform
rural development
natural resources management
This paper contains information about real estate marketts development in Latvias rural areas after the year 1991. The Agrarian reforms guidelines are described in the first part of the paper. Formation and particularity of development of real estate market in rural areas have been analyzed in the second part. Agricultural land, forest land and building plots (residential land) prices dynamics is given in the third part.
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SOME REASONS THAT INFLUENCE AGRARIAN LAND MARKET

The case of Slovakia

Reports & Research
January, 2005
Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Slovakia
land
property
Situation and structure of land relations is in each state result of long-term development of society. Structure of agricultural land ownership in Slovakia is likewise as also in other EU states different from structure of agricultural land use. In administration of the Slovak Land Fund it is still at present (2005) app. 25% of agricultural land. The agricultural land market is marked with previous period and it is up to now poor developed. The reasons are economic as well as legal one.