Land tenure issues are becoming increasingly important worldwide. Problems such as high population pressure, increases in resource degradation, food shortages, transformations of political systems and regional and supra-regional resource conflicts have brought the land issue to the public's attention.

This issue of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives includes interesting descriptions of land tenure and related policies in Uganda, Tunisia, the United Republic of Tanzania and Morocco. Two thought-provoking articles on access to land and other assets focus on policies to reduce poverty and the function of markets in the allocation of production resources. In the first, J. Melmed-Sanjak and S.

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNION OF MYANMAR -
THE CENTRAL COMMITTEEE FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF CULTURABLE LAND,
FALLOW LAND AND WASTE LAND -
NOTIFICATION NO 1/98 -
Yangon, Thw Waxing Day of Thadingyut, 1360 ME -
(28th September 1998)

Prospects of the voluntary land resettlement programme in Zambia with reference to Ngwezi Resettlement Scheme in Kalomo-Southern Province

1998

There is widespread belief among development specialists that land tenure security is a necessary but not sufficient condition for economic development.

THE LAND ACT 1998

ABSTRACTED FROM THE INTRODUCTION: This paper addresses the question of land rights and forest conservation for those on the periphery, i.e. the minority hill-dwelling population, specifically, the Karen. Over the past century, the hill-dwelling Karen in Thailand have transformed their subsistence agriculture from that based primarily on swidden cultivation in secondary forests on the lower hill slopes towards wet-rice cultivation in irrigated paddy fields. In either case, the Karen are in a no-win situation.

In opdracht van het Ministerie van LNV, Directie Groene Ruimte en Recreatie heeft DLO-Staring Centrum een monitoring uitgevoerd van het beleid voor de Waardevolle Cultuurlandschappen (WCL). Dit rapport bevat zowel het kwalitatieve als het kwantitatieve gedeelte van de monitoring en richt zich op de jaren 1994 tot en met 1996 met een doorkijk naar 1997. Het proces wordt beschreven van het organiseren van de uitvoering van WCL, het opstellen van het gebiedsperspectief en het aandragen en uitvoeren van projecten. Van daaruit is aangegeven in welke mate de WCL-doelstellingen worden bereikt.

Access to land is increasingly becoming a problem in Africa as a result both of population growth and tenure reforms. The standard argument for tenure reform centres on the role of uncertainty in discouraging investment on land held without long-term security. The rationale for this 'replacement' paradigm, however, can be questioned on economic, ecological and social grounds. The history of land tenure reform in Kenya, especially that of group titles in the semiarid areas, is a case in point.