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  1. Library Resource
    How Do Differences in Land Ownership Types in China Affect Land Development? A Case from Beijing
    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2017
    China

    China has a unique land use system in which there are two types of land ownership, namely, state-owned urban land and farmer collective-owned rural land. Despite strict restrictions on the use rights of farmer collective-owned land, rural land is, in fact, developed along two pathways: it is formally acquired by the state and transferred into state ownership, or it is informally developed while remaining in collective ownership.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    Angola, Serbia, Bangladesh, China, Namibia, Australia, Ghana, Congo, India

    Este documento es el resultado final de ese proceso. Dirigido a una audiencia mundial – que comprende las instancias decisorias urbanas, funcionarios públicos, asesores políticos y demás partes interesadas – contribuirá al desarrollo de bosques urbanos y periurbanos que ayuden a las ciudades a resolver sus exigencias actuales y futuras de productos forestales y servicios del ecosistema.

  3. Library Resource
    Legislation
    January, 2016
    Russia

    This Regional Law sets forth a series of arrangements for state support of smallholders (family subsistence farming) with a view of increase of employment and improvement of economic conditions of rural population, promotion of regional food market, and delimits plenary powers of state bodies in the aforesaid sphere. Agricultural commodities produced by smallholders shall be their property, and vending of cash crops shall not be considered entrepreneurial activity. Either urban land or agricultural land in rural areas can be used for family subsistence farming.

  4. Library Resource
    Legislation
    November, 2016
    Mexico

    La presente Ley establece las normas básicas e instrumentos de gestión de observancia general, para ordenar el uso del territorio y los asentamientos humanos en el país, con pleno respeto a los derechos humanos, así como el cumplimiento de las obligaciones que tiene el Estado para promoverlos, respetarlos, protegerlos y garantizarlos plenamente. La Ley regula la concurrencia de la Federación, de las entidades federativas, los municipios y las Demarcaciones Territoriales para la planeación, ordenación y regulación de los asentamientos humanos en el territorio nacional.

  5. Library Resource
    Legislation
    June, 2016
    Ecuador

    La presente Ley Orgánica de Ordenamiento Territorial, Uso y Gestión de Suelo, tiene por objeto fijar los principios y reglas generales que rigen el ejercicio de las competencias de ordenamiento territorial, uso y gestión del suelo urbano y rural, y su relación con otras que incidan significativamente sobre el territorio o lo ocupen, para que se articulen eficazmente, promuevan el desarrollo equitativo y equilibrado del territorio y propicien el ejercicio del derecho a la ciudad, al hábitat seguro y saludable, y a la vivienda adecuada y digna, en cumplimiento de la función social y ambiental

  6. Library Resource
    Regulations
    October, 2016
    Venezuela

    El presente Decreto declara afectos al desarrollo de la agricultura urbana los espacios públicos ubicados en los centros urbanos, que se encuentren libres, ociosos o abandonados, para que sean aprovechados para el cultivo y producción de alimentos.

  7. Library Resource
    Legislation
    December, 2016
    Russia

    This Regional Law shall have as its purpose ensuring the right of citizens to favorable environment, including landscape and shade gardening, planting of recreational urban forests, thus ensuring favorable conditions for vital activity of citizens, and delimits plenary powers between city state bodies, local government and municipal units in the sphere of improvement of natural environment. Objects of improvement of natural environment shall be: (a) urban land and rural land; and (b) public and municipal land without application of servitude.

  8. Library Resource
    Legislation
    February, 2016
    Russia

    Article 8 shall be amended to add the following wording: “Urban land destined for urban and peri-urban agriculture without constructions thereon and allotted to agricultural organization or peasant farm on condition of permanent (open-ended) land tenure or hereditary life-long possession shall be purchased in ownership by the aforesaid categories of natural and legal persons at the cost of 15 percent of cadastre value of the plot of land at the date of submittal of the application”.

    Amends: Regional Law No. 1080-220 “On turnover of agricultural land”. (2013-03-05)

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