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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    September, 2014
    Kenya

    The first set of the land laws were enacted in 2012 in line with the timelines outlined in the Constitution of Kenya 2010. In keeping with the spirit of the constitution, the Land Act, Land Registration Act and the national Land Commission Act respond to the requirements of Articles 60, 61, 62, 67 & 68 of the Constitution. The National Land Policy, which was passed as Sessional Paper No. 3 of 2009, arrived earlier than the Constitution, with some radical proposals on the land Management.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2017
    Kenya

    Women face many problems with regard to land inheritance and land rights in Kenya. Individual and community land ownership do not favour women. The reason for this is that ownership of land is patrilineal, which means that fathers share land amongst sons, while excluding daughters. This practice is traditionally widespread and partly accepted although it goes against the interest of women and is prohibited by the constitution.

  3. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    Legislation
    National Policies
    March, 2015
    Kenya

    The Land Act, 2012

    The Land Registration Act, 2012

    The National Land Commission Act, 2012

    The Environment & Land Court Act, 2011

    The Urban Areas & Cities Act, 2011

  4. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Malaysia, Asia, South-Eastern Asia

    Main object of the Code is to ensure uniformity of law and policy with respect to land tenure, registration of titles relating to land, transfer of land, leases and charges in respect of land, easements and other rights and interests in land.

  5. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Malaysia, Asia, South-Eastern Asia

    This Act amends the National Land Code Act, 1965.Amendments include: insertion of new definitions in section 5; minor word changes and minor changes in the provisions in sections 5b, 14, 62, 80, 81, 92d, 124, 136, 140, 141, 141a, 142, 147, 204g, 254, 264a, 375, 399, 412, 426, 429a and 429b; insertion of a new Part One (C) on modifications to facilitate the implementation of the electronic land administration system; insertion of a new section 143a on powers of the State Authority in relation to applications for the partition of land subject to the agriculture category; and minor changes to

  6. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe

    The President decrees that the plots of land and the property connected with them must be considered real estate. The real estate contracts are regulated by Civil Code in accordance with Land, Forestry, Environmental, other specific Legislative Acts and this Decree. Physical And juridical persons, that own plots of land, have the right to sell, to bequeath, to give as a gift, to mortgage, to lease, to exchange and to render them as a share to the-joint stock companies. Each landowner is provided with land certificate that must be registered into land cadastre.

  7. Library Resource
    Multimedia
    December, 2016
    Colombia

    En el marco de la sistematización de experiencias inspiradoras de acceso, retorno y apego a la tierra y a los territorios en toda Sudamérica y el Segundo Encuentro de Jóvenes por la Tierra Guasca, Colombia 2015

  8. Library Resource
    Multimedia
    December, 2016
    Colombia

    Whoever is thinking of returning to the field but still does not decide, has in this documentary a very inspiring story. The Murillo Barajas family, which has formed the small iniciative ECOMUBA, Ecológico Murillo Barajas, in Gusca, Colombia, tells in this documentary how it makes possible agro-ecological production and how the countryside is an economic and living option. 

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2016
    Bolivia

    Este es el caso de una propiedad familiar donde la necesidad del retorno a la tierra familiar impulsada por el peligro de pérdida del terreno ante la muerte del progenitor (propietario), y la mejora en las condiciones de vida que en este caso están expresadas en prácticas innovadoras, frente a los términos en los que el mercado convencional se desarrolla.

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2014
    Colombia

    La historia de la familia Murillo Barajas es un ejemplo de regreso de la ciudad al campo y de acceso a la tierra a través de la herencia y la compra de un terreno aledaño, para establecer, luego de mucho trabajo, una exitosa finca dedicada a la producción agroecológica sostenible.

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