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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 1970
    Cuba, Mexico

    This publications presents a methodology and software for assessing carbon sequestration that were developed and tested in pilot field studies in Mexico and Cuba. The models and tools enable the analysis of land use change scenarios in order to identifyin a given area (watershed or district) land use alternatives and land management practices that simultaneously maximize food production, maximize soil carbon sequestration, maximize biodiversity conservation and minimize land degradation.

  2. Library Resource
    Manuals & Guidelines
    January, 1970
    Brazil

    Concentration of land ownership, lack of access, insecurity of tenure and lack of efficiency and transparency in land administration services, are among the obstacles towards responsible governance of tenure of land and other natural resources in Latin America. These issues have been the subject of discussions and policy recommendations during many international forums, such as the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD) held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in March 2006.
    
    
    

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 1970
    Argentina

    Es propósito de esta nota dar a conocer algunos datos históricos referentes a casos de propiedad colectiva de la tierra en el sector andino de la provincia de Jujuy. No existen publicaciones específicas referentes al tema y, desde luego, los escasos elementos de juicio que presentaré no pretenden subsanar esa carencia. Los expongo solamente como un aporte de interés para iniciar un capítulo íntimamente ligado al estudio del cambio cultural en la región mencionada.

  4. Library Resource
    Manuals & Guidelines
    January, 1970
    Ethiopia, Namibia, Burkina Faso, Panama, Brazil, Vietnam, Jordan, Romania, United Kingdom, Germany, Samoa

    The Eastern and Anglophone Western Africa Regional Assessment meeting was organized by a task force consisting of FAO, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, African Land Policy Initiative, the United Nations World Food Programme, United Nations Development Programme, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme officials in Ethiopia.

  5. Library Resource
    Legislation
    January, 1971
    United States of America

    This Act provides with respect to Federal programs for farm credit. It establishes the oversight, examination, regulatory, and enforcement authorities of the Farm Credit Administration over the Farm Credit System (FCS). The Act also sets forth the purpose and authorities of all FCS institutions. The Act provides with respect legal status, administration, operations, etc. of farm credit banks, production credit associations, Federal land bank association, banks for cooperatives and a revolving fund and the Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 1970
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    This paper explores trends of good governance of tenure of land and other natural resources in Latin America. It analyzes mechanisms employed and identifies issues to be considered when aiming for a responsible governance of land tenure

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 1970
    Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada

    This report originally prepared in 2002 and revised in 2012 covers three topics. The main body of the report consists of an overview of the existing legal and institutional frameworks relevant to agricultural land use in countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) that were studied. The overview is based primarily on the six country reports prepared in 2002 by the National Legal Consultants for Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and St.

  8. Library Resource
    January, 1970
    Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Nigeria, Sweden, Turkey

    This paper discusses the role of FAO support to the Government of Mozambiques Land Commission since 1995, through three consecutive projects. While each has had a relatively short duration, all have been planned and implemented within a single conceptual framework with a much longer time horizon. This has allowed a difficult and complex issue to be progressively developed and nurtured within a realistic time scale, while building up a strong sense of national ownership of the process.

  9. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 1970
    Italy, Madagascar, Niger, Peru

    This issue of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives contains an interesting and

    wide-ranging set of contributions providing insights into land related issues ranging from

    Italy to the Central Andes, and from the historical development of sustainable tenure

    practices to aspects of agriculture sector planning.

    The eight articles featured open with that of Lavigne Delville, which addresses issues

    relating to insecurity of tenure in West Africa, and identifies what the paths of change

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