A short paper providing background to the establishment of land alliances in East Africa in the 1990s. Includes introduction describing key factors which made possible the creation of land alliances, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, concluding thoughts – privatisation has offered very rich pickings for the rich in recent years.
Utaran began work on the Sustainable Access to Land Equality (SALE) project to ensure transparency and accountability in land governance in December 2012. The project engaged communiies in three pilot upazilas - Amtali Upazila of Barguna District, Mohanpur of Rajshahi, and Sadar of Jamalpur - to raise the awareness of vulnerable landowners about land administraion, and to effect transparent processes for a) selecing landless people and b) khasland setlement.
Land acquisition for development projects by government, private investors and land speculators is a critical source of tensions and conflicts in many parts of Uganda. Following the discovery of commercially viable oil reserves in 2006, Uganda turned attention to extractives and oil development as a matter of national priority. Evidence of this assertion can be found in the recent 2016-17 national budget allocations, where the portion for oil development is substantial.
A partir de meados da década de 2000, a província de Tete passou a constituir um centro de atracção do grande investimento internacional, com particular impacto ao nível da indústria extractiva. De acordo com as informações disponibilizadas pela Direcção Provincial dos Recursos Minerais, o auge da prospecção e pesquisa aconteceu nos anos de 2009 e 2010, sobretudo ao nível do carvão, zinco, platina, ouro e metais básicos. Em 2011 a mineradora Vale iniciou o processo de extracção de carvão, em 2012 começou a Rio Tinto e, em 2013, a empresa Jindal.
Falar de meio ambiente é falar de saúde pública, pois uma das condições fundamentais para garantir o bem estar das pessoas é um meio ambiente sadio.
Developing a coherent Institutional Arrangement at Upazilla Level through Integrated Digital Land Record System (IDLRS) is a crucial works have been accomplished in regard to developing a coordinated institutional arrangement through IDLRS. The most important is bringing IDLRS into a state where test operation has started consistent with the schedule and modalities that was acceptable to the AC Land Office, Sub-Register Office and other Land Offices in Manirampur. This work involved 1.The development of software, 2. Ensuring that necessary hardware and infrastructure are in place, 3.
O Observatório do Meio Rural (OMR) tem acompanhado com atenção a recente evolução geral do país e, em particular, o desenrolar da economia com ênfase para a crise da dívida.
Tem contribuído em debates públicos e co-assinado comunicados em parceria com outras organizações da sociedade civil. Este texto procura focalizar nos previsíveis efeitos da situação geral do país sobre a agricultura e o meio rural.
This paper addresses land and ways to handle it in all human settlements – urban as well as rural for several reasons: a) challenges around land and the way to handle them are not so different, b) the development of rural settlements is key to solve the problems of ever-growing urban settlements, c) rural settlements automatically increases the pressure on the cities as it leads to further rural-urban migration and d) growing and sprawling cities easily result in negative effects for the surrounding hinterland, which further stipulate rural-urban migration and the growth and sprawl of (mega
This paper addresses land and ways to handle it in all human settlements – urban as well as rural for several reasons: a) challenges around land and the way to handle them are not so different, b) the development of rural settlements is key to solve the problems of ever-growing urban settlements, c) rural settlements automatically increases the pressure on the cities as it leads to further rural-urban migration and d) growing and sprawling cities easily result in negative effects for the surrounding hinterland, which further stipulate rural-urban migration and the growth and sprawl of (mega
Este Road Map tem como objectivo propôr os aspectos principais e os passos a seguir para iniciar, acompanhar e contribuir para uma revisão da actual Lei de Terras (LT -Lei 19/97 de 199 de Outubro). A revisão da Lei implica também a subsequente revisão dos instrumentos implementadores, nomeadamente Decretos e Diplomas Ministeriais conexos aprovados desde 1997.
Capacity of local land administration has to be addressed for further strengthening the governance system with a view to deriving the benefits of socio-economic, political and cultural development for the common people of this country. It is true that in Bangladesh, voice in favour of effective land administration and management is becoming louder at the national level. Representatives of LGIs, development workers, civil society members and international development partners, time and again, are raising and firmly advocating this long-drawn issue at policy level.