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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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2006Global
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2005South Africa
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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Library ResourceJanuary, 2005Kenya
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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Library ResourceLegislation & PoliciesJanuary, 2005Global
Territorial Development: an innovative approach
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Urban Agriculture for sustainable development
Journal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2006GlobalThe 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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Urban Agriculture for sustainable development
Journal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2006GlobalThe 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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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2005Tanzania
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 -
Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2005Kenya
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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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2005Latvia
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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The case of Slovakia
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2005Central Asia, Eastern Europe, SlovakiaSituation 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.
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