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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2013
    Western Africa, Africa

    En marge de l’Assemblée Générale de la Fédération des Géomètres Francophones (FGF), ONU-Habitat et le Réseau Mondial des Instruments Fonciers (GLTN), a organisé une séance de formation sur la bonne gouvernance foncière.
    Cette rencontre technique et scientifique a réuni 130 experts géomètres, du secteur privé, du secteur public, enseignants, étudiants, venus de 13 pays d’Afrique Subsaharienne et d’Europe.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2010
    Botswana

    Tribal land management constitutes the largest of the three main tenure types that prevail in Botswana (tribal, State, and freehold). The land inventory is a means to support land administration, land development, land use planning, land transactions and natural resources management in Botswana. The land inventory is currently web based and GIS-enabled through the Tribal Land Information Management Systems and the State Land Information Management System. These systems now play a key role in land-related policy and management decisions.

  3. Library Resource
    Climate Change, Land and Resource Governance, and Violent Extremism: Spotlight on the African Sahel
    Reports & Research
    May, 2019
    Algeria, Sudan, Western Sahara, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal

    Tetra Tech’s land tenure and property rights experts examine how weak land and resource governance can fuel drivers of violent extremism. With a focus on the African Sahel, this new issue brief finds this dynamic is especially prevalent when land and resource governance challenges are coupled with environmental disruptions, resource scarcity, or migration.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 1970
    Zambia

    In recent years, Zambia has witnessed increased interest from private investors in acquiring land for

    agriculture. As elsewhere, large-scale land acquisitions are often accompanied with promises of capital

    investments to build infrastructure, bring new technologies and know-how, create employment, and

    improve market access, among other benefits. But agricultural investments create risks as well as

    opportunities, for instance in relation to loss of land for family farmers. While much debate on ‘land

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 1970
    Ghana

    In recent years, Ghana has witnessed increased interest from private companies in developing agricultural

    investments. This trend is common to many lower/middle income countries. It has translated in a surge in

    large-scale land acquisitions in many lower/middle income countries, including Ghana, but also in

    agribusiness ventures that source produce from local farmers.

    While much debate on agricultural investments has discussed risks and opportunities for host governments

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 1970
    Argentina, China, Cuba, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia

    The objective of the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA) project was to develop tools and methods to assess and quantify the nature, extent, severity and impacts of land degradation on dryland ecosystems, watersheds and river basins, carbon storage and biological diversity at a range of spatial and temporal scales. This builds the national, regional and international capacity to

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 1970
    Botswana, Mozambique

    Given the recent trend of granting vast areas of African land to foreign investors, the urgency of placing real ownership in the hands of the people living and making their livelihood upon lands held according to custom cannot be overstated. This study provides guidance on how best to recognize and protect the land rights of the rural poor.

  8. 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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