This brief considers the benefits and costs of alternative tenure and institutional arrangements and the impact of existing legal and policy frameworks on the sustainability and equity of pastoral production systems under three categories of landownership: (1) state ownership; (2) individual ownership; and (3) common property... Achieving efficient, equitable, and sustainable rangeland management depends on the costs and benefits of alternative systems. These costs and benefits, in turn, depend on agroecological, sociocultural, and economic characteristics.

Successive policies of the Government of
Vietnam for economic reform and modernization have helped
Vietnam to emerge as one of the world's fastest growing
economies. The report provides continued recommendations on
improving land policies to ensure efficiency of their
practical implementation and to target at both economic
development and social sustainability. Policies with regard
to voluntary benefits sharing, promoting the participation

This report is about integrated land
policy reform in context of rapid urbanization in China.
Over the past thirty years, China has undergone a profound
economic and social transformation as it moves towards a
market-oriented economy. Land issues are implicated in this
ongoing transformation in numerous ways. The allocation and
security of land rights are key factors in China's
quest for economic growth and social stability. Land use

The goal of this report is to take stock
of the existing evidence on the impact of the Comprehensive
Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) on poverty, to examine the
current challenges that an extension of CARP would face, and
to suggest directions toward achieving progress on land
reform given the financial and policy constraints faced by
the program. The report starts by examining the nature and
relevance of the challenges that an extension of the land

China has undergone a profound economic and social transformation as it moves from a centrally-planned to a market-oriented economy. Land issues are implicated in this ongoing transformation in numerous important ways - as key factors in China's quest for economic growth, national food security and social stability; as important influences in the rapid growth of China's cities as well as the future of its agriculture; and as central features in local government finance and in the growth and stability of the financial and banking sector.

This report evaluates the legal
framework for rural land rights, the regulations of rural
housing sites, the effects of land requisition on farmers
who lose land, and some selected issues affecting urban land
rights. The focus of this report is how to enhance property
rights in a number of different contexts. The report makes a
series of specific policy recommendations for rural
agricultural land, rural housing land, to protect rights in

The author applies a systems-oriented "holistic" approach to China's radical economic reforms during the past quarter of a century. He characterizes China's economic reforms in terms of a multidimensional classification of economic systems. When looking at the economic consequences of China's change of economic system, he deals with both the impressive growth performance and its economic costs.

Repasa la legislación agraria desde la reforma de 1953, pasando por la constitución del 2009 y la legislación boliviana hasta septiembre del 2013.

Reconquista es una comunidad asociativa de agricultores campesinos en Paraguay. De los pocos asentamientos campesinos que tuvieron avances significativos durante el gobierno de Fernando Lugo, y que contó con una importante asistencia de varias instituciones estatales. La propiedad de la tierra es asociativa para evitar la compraventa.

Una historia marcada por constantes luchas en defensa de su territorio ancestral, legitimarse ante las diferentes modalidades en las que el Estado comprendía la tierra y la conformación de pueblos, sobreponiéndose a territorios ancestrales que insisten en su reconstitución territorial y la restitución de su identidad cultural ante el Estado Plurinacional.

El Estado compró 7.500 hectáreas de tierra para entregar a la Comunidad Tava Guaraní. Las tierras siguen siendo propiedad del Estado paraguayo. Por mucho tiempo se planteó combinar la propiedad familiar con la colectiva, propuesta rechazada por el INDERT, principal motivo por el cual no se podía avanzar en la titulación de las mismas. Finalmente el Estado lo aceptó.

Caso de un barrio en las afueras de Quito que en 2005 se reconstituye como comunidad ancestral, con derechos colectivos, en medio de conflictos y amenazas por actores externos