Readers are invited to submit manuscripts in English, French or Spanish on research and analysis of issues related to land reform, land settlement or cooperatives. Submitted manuscripts are read by members of the Editorial Board and also by outside reviewers. Authors are requested to provide an alphabetical reference list at the end of the article.

The papers contained in this issue have been selected from those presented at a series of workshops, held in 2002 in Hungary, Uganda, Mexico and Cambodia, that were organized by the World Bank jointly with the Department for International Development (DFID), the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and with FAO, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the African development Bank (AfDB), the European Union (EU), the International Land Coalition, Oxfam, and other bilateral an

This study investigates the political and contentious nature of access to mountain natural resources by poor, disadvantaged and marginalized people, including women and youth, and the policy processes associated with access and development over time. This study has been commissioned by FAO to look at sustainable livelihoods approaches to access to natural resources in mountain areas. We concentrate on access by poorer and marginalized groups to policy processes whereby long-term sustainable access to resources is achieved.

The report summarises the papers, presentations and discussions of a workshop on failures and achievements at securing women’s land rights. In particular, it addresses the following issues: Land rights and legal reforms,legal aid and land administration practice, women's land rights in an HIV/AIDS context,women's land rights from a food security and livelihoods context. Organised by the FAO and Oxfam, the workshop seeks to establish global and multi-sectoral alliances and multiple strategies as a means of breaking out of the present impasse in this matter.

This Regional Law establishes the particulars of turnover of agricultural land, including privatization of agricultural land pertaining to public and municipal property. It determines that minimum land area of consolidated agricultural land plot shall be two hectares, while minimum land area of consolidated agricultural land plot in case of irrigation by stationary sprinklers or drained land shall be no less than 50 hectares and in case of irrigation by mobile sprinklers shall be no less than 10 hectares.

Contains background, policy responses (PRSP, LSSP, national gender policy), legal responses (Constitution, co-ownership, Land Bill 1997 and Matembe Clause, Land Act 1998 and Consent Clause, Land Amendment Bill 2003), challenges, way forward, annexes.

This Law defines the legal, organizational, economic and social principles of conducting smallholding activity. Smallholding (individual peasant farm) shall be a business activity that is carried out without the creation of a legal entity by an individual or by family members or relatives that live together in order to meet their personal needs through the production, processing and consumption of agricultural products, vending of its surpluses and the provision of services using the property of a private peasant farm, also in the field of rural green tourism.

This Regional Law regulates the issues of allotment free of charge to citizens in ownership of land plots pertaining to state and municipal property. The aforesaid allotment shall be performed once only to citizens that had in actual use, before entry into force of the Land Code, the aforesaid land plots for the purpose individual residential housing construction, smallholding and gardening without legal registration of land rights in due course. This Regional Law classifies categories of citizens having the right to land allotment.

La presente Norma del Programa de Regularización y Administración de Tierras Rurales (PRAT), tiene como objetivos: 1) Mejorar el funcionamiento del INDA en la adjudicación efectiva y eficiente de la tierra a nivel nacional; 2) Probar y demostrar en el terreno un método para regularizar la tenencia de la tierra rural, formar catastros e integrarlo a los registros de la propiedad; 3) Estudiar la efectividad del financiamiento de pequeños proyectos, como complemento a las otras acciones destinadas a superar la cultura de no registrar la propiedad predial; y, 4) Impulsar la modernización instit

El presente Decreto crea el Consejo Nacional de Planificación Urbana (CNPU), integrado por el Ministerio de Vivienda y Asentamientos Humanos (MIVAH), quien lo preside, el Ministerio de Planificación Nacional y Política Económica, el Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía (MINAE), el Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes (MOPT), el Instituto Nacional de Vivienda y Urbanismo (INVU), el Instituto de Fomento y Asesoría Municipal, la Compañía Nacional de Fuerza y Luz, y adicionalmente la Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgo y Atención de Emergencias y el Instituto Costarricense de Acueductos

Los habitantes de Asampay (Catamarca, Argentina) han adoptado un sistema de usos y costumbres conformado por normas comunitarias que delinean el aprovechamiento de los recursos naturales escasos de la región, específicamente la tierra y el agua.