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Geoinformation Technologies in Land Management and Beyond: Case of Georgia

Conference Papers & Reports
October, 2006
Georgia
land administration
land records
cadastres
geographical information systems
land registration
land surveying
land reform
agrarian reform
land transfers
private ownership
Introduction of geoinformation technologies for building up a modern land management system in Georgia goes back to mid-1990s. This has been stimulated by start of land reform resulting in privatization of over 3 million agricultural land plots in whole in the entire country. These new properties were to be properly surveyed, registered and recorded in a newly established cadastral system with the aim of launching free market transactions.
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No Change for Thirty Years: The Renewed Question of Women's Land Rights in Rural China

January, 2007
China
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
land
use rights
land reform
households
women
research
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IMPROVING TENURE SECURITY FOR THE RURAL POOR

MALI – COUNTRY CASE STUDY

Reports & Research
October, 2006
Mali
land administration
land reform
land use
natural resources
natural resources management
land transactions
land tenure
Has 3 main chapters: modes of access to land and natural resources and the tenure situation of the poor and marginalized groups (customary rules, statutory law, development of commercial transactions); some ways of securing land rights for the poor and other vulnerable groups (local resource management agreements, formalization of collective rights and of land transactions, access to justice); can the necessary reforms be carried out?
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Land reform: Land settlement and cooperatives

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2006
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land reform
land tenure
land tenure
land tenure systems
natural resources management
This bulletin is issued by FAO as a medium for the dissemination of information and views on land reform and related subjects to the United Nations, FAO Member Governments and national and international experts and institutions. Articles are published in the original language (English, French or Spanish).
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Land reform: Land settlement and cooperatives

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2006
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land reform
land rights
land tenure
land tenure
land tenure systems
natural resources management
This issue of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives offers the reader a series of articles and information and examones the importance of land tenure data and databases and their roles in their host societies. The volume represents rich set of articles specific for many regions and countries. The data presented is crucial for decison and policy making inthe fields of economic development, food security and environmental sustainability,
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Pro-Poor Land Reform: a Critique

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2007
Philippines
land reform
markdownabstractUsing empirical case materials from the Philippines and referring to rich experiences from different countries historically, this book offers conceptual and practical conclusions that have far-reaching implications for land reform throughout the world.
Examining land reform theory and practice, this book argues that conventional practices have excluded a significant portion of land-based production and distribution relationships, while they have inadvertently included land transfers that do not constitute real redistributive reform.
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Heterogeneity, commons and privatization : agrarian institutional change in Goa

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2006
India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
agrarian reform
land management
land ownership
land tenure
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A Survey into the Management and use of Wetlands in Kenya

Institutional & promotional materials
March, 2006
Kenya
agrarian reform
arable land
land
land cover
land cover change
land cover mapping
land management
The Role Of Wetlands In Poverty Reduction- Extreme poverty among rural poor people living around wetlands remains a daily reality for more than 56% of Kenya’s population, who subsist on less than one dollar a day. Seventy percent of extremely poor households, a majority of who live in rural areas where hunger and poverty prevails, are now being caught up in a new web of lack of access to wetlands as safety-net during hard times due to appropriation of wetlands by private developers.
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Forests, agriculture, poverty and land reform: the case of the Indonesian Outer Islands

January, 2006
Indonesia, Eastern Asia, Oceania
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
environment
land
deforestation
poverty
land clearing
land reform
agriculture
The promotion of forestry activities is seen as a means by which to reduce poverty while protecting the environment. But if clearing of forests for agricultural activities can prove more profitable, will such efforts be effective?
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Land reform and changes in land ownership concentration: evidence from rice-growing villages in the Philippines

January, 2006
Philippines
land reform
poverty
land ownership
land
Land reform has been the main policy response of government to correct the sharp inequalities in the distribution of land ownership in the Philippines. The historical records show that the process of disposal of State lands has heavily favored households with economic and political power. These households had undue advantage over the common populace in acquiring property rights through the Spanish system of royal grants and the American system of land cadastre.