Looks at agricultural leasehold rights, freehold tenure and land markets, foreign land ownership and tenure security, rentals and sharing of redistributed land, modifying customary rights, gender and class relations, farm workers, land administration and tenure security.
Provides a micro-level foundation for discussions of income and asset allocation within the smallholder sector in Eastern and Southern Africa, and explores the implications of these findings for rural growth and poverty alleviation strategies in the region.
A major challenge of Brazilian municipalities is to harmonize urban growth with the provision of public service. São Carlos, a municipality in the State of São Paulo also tries to solve this issue. The lack of urban planning coupled with the absence of occupation control measures promotes the soil sealing, which is responsible for the flooding in the valley bottoms.
The flurry of interest around the European refugee crisis, whilst plainly justified, should not have the effect of distracting international attention from equally pressing humanitarian and refugee crises in other parts of the world.
La planificación, el ordenamiento territorial y la gestión de la ruralidad requieren una aproximación y consenso en torno a la noción de lo rural en contextos metropolitanos, sistémicamente interdependiente al fenómeno de urbanización, dinámica poblacional, modelo económico y de ocupación de la región, a fin de develar las nuevas funciones o roles estratégicos que cumple dicho espacio en el des
We analyzed the following characteristics of water self-depuration capacity along a polluted river (Suquía River) in Argentina: a) abundance of microbial metabolic groups, b) cover and type of vegetation, and c) type and concentration of soil and sediment humic substances.
Based on airborne LIDAR data on canopymorphology and height of Amazon forest trees, we developed allometric models to estimate dry biomass stored in the boles of dominant and co-dominant individuals and compared these results with those from equations based on traditional variables such as diameter at breast height (DBH).
En esta segunda parte de su artículo, el autor realiza un completo estudio de la naturaleza jurídica del derecho al agua.
In Latin America, water governance is facing the problem of rising demand for water resources, increased hydrological variability in a context of climate change, proliferating contamination and thus —in general— increasing scarcity of water in terms of quantity, quality, and opportunity. This creates competition and conflicts among stakeholders.
Este artículo busca mostrar cómo ocurrió el despojo y la concentración de tierras baldías, y el desarrollo del conflicto en Puerto Gaitán y Mapiripán entre 1980 y 2010.
La Reserva de Desenvolvimiento Ssustentable Piagaçu Purus ( Corazón grande del Purus originado de la lengua Tupi), creada con una área de aproximadamente de 1.008.167 has (Un millón ocho mil ciento y sesenta y siete hectáreas), con la creación de la reserva indígena Itixi- Mitari con180.850 has. Pasa a tener 827.317 has.