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The Economics of Development: Integrating Land Economics and Portfolio Analysis

Reports & Research
March, 2016
United States of America
development
land
land economics
This study integrates situs theory as defined by Andrews (1971) into comparative investment analysis, approaching a single use development from the perspective of modern investment theory and a potential mixed use development on the same site as a portfolio of uses generating portfolio risk and return trade-offs. The theoretical integration of situs theory, rent theory and portfolio/investment economics is tested against a statistically significant number of development proposal case studies, conducted during distinct economic phases (over time).
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City building and regime creation in the peripheries for Mumbai

Reports & Research
March, 2016
India, Southern Asia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Urban Tenure
human settlements
land rights
urbanization
In terms of the splintering of cities, it is important to understand contemporary urbanization processes, speculative real estate development, and ways to challenge these via new modes of politics. This case study analyzes the impacts of largely ‘illegal’ city building, on different groups of people within the city, particularly relating to spatial (in)justice and violence.
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Valuing land tenure rights

Manuals & Guidelines
March, 2016
Global
Land & Investments
land governance
land law
land policies
land management
land rights
land tenure
This technical guide covers the issues associated with the identification and valuation of tenure rights for different purposes, and provides guidance on how to ensure that valuations are undertaken in a fair, reliable and transparent manner that comply with international norms. It explains why valuations are important, where and when they should be used, and by whom. The guide aims to raise the level of awareness of valuation issues and procedures among those involved in land policy and administration and those affected by land tenure decisions.
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People’s Manual on the Guidelines on Governance of Land, Fisheries and Forests: A guide for promotion, implementation, monitoring and evaluation

Manuals & Guidelines
March, 2016
Global
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land governance
land investments
land tenure
land tenure systems
local communities
The manual explains how to use the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure in everyday life to protect the rights of peasants and other communities.
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Supporting Global Food Security in a Changing Climate Through Transatlantic Cooperation

March, 2016
Global
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
food security
land governance
Policy communities in the United States and Europe are increasingly identifying climate change, environmental deterioration, water management, and food security as key concerns for development and global governance. The interplay of these trends is visible in the upheavals across the Middle East, with food riots and water disputes illuminating the region’s food insecurity.
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A proposition to solve the land cadaster system in Brazil: the role of CNIR and a new institutionalization

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2016
Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Brazil
cadastres
geographical information systems
cadastral register
cadastral administration
agricultural and rural legislation
rural planning
rural areas
private ownership
public ownership
property
private property
property rights
Brazil has, on the one hand, strong institutions in various areas, improved social situation and, on the other, the rural land situation is still very precarious, with basic unresolved questions, such as for example, knowledge of what is public and private land, due to the absence of cadaster. The legislation moved forward in an attempt to link the cadasters of INCRA, the Internal Revenue Service, with information from the Registry of Real Estate with the enactment of Law No. 10,267 / 2001, creating the National Register of Rural Properties – CNIR.
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Immobilized land market caused by lack of secure property rights: case of the cerrado Piauiense

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2016
Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Brazil
land titling
land governance
agriculture
conflicts
land markets
land speculation
land conflicts
tenure regularization
property
private property
property rights
government
This article shows the case of the cerrado region where because of a lack of clear property rights the land market is completely immobilized.

It started with the land occupation of Piauí's cerrado region and the creation of its land market in the seventies by the State Development Agency (CONDEPI), which sold with symbolic prices very large properties for cattle and fruit production. The small landowners that occupied previously the region based on common rights were sometimes dispossessed.
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LAND MARKET DYNAMICS ON AN EXPANDING FRONTIER: INVESTMENT IN BRAZIL

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2016
Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Brazil
land governance
agriculture
land transactions
transaction costs
land investments
investment funds
research
government
In the last years the Brazilian agricultural frontier is expanding towards the cerrado region, more specifically the region called MATOPIBA, comprised of savannah areas of four different states located in the north and northeastern parts of the country. This research paper aims to show a recent pattern of second wave investments in the frontier aimed at inferior quality land.
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Measuring Gender, Development, and Land: Data-Driven Analysis and Land Reform in Lesotho

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2016
Lesotho
Land & Gender
gender equity
land reform
land rights
land tenure
Development agencies are increasingly making decisions and evaluating success on the basis of an ever-growing supply of data. Some argue that the proliferation of data improves development outcomes for states and people targeted by agencies' interventions, as well as the accountability of those agencies. Others argue that problems of selection bias, a lack of longitudinal records, and misuse of data can ignore or even exacerbate the problems that development agencies seek to mitigate.
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UK Land Policy Forum 2 summary

Summary of the UK Land Policy Forum meeting held on 13 April 2016

Conference Papers & Reports
April, 2016
Global
Land & Corruption
corruption
land
This is the summary of the UK Land Policy Forum meeting held on 13 April 2016.