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Country Profiles on Housing and Land Management: Republic of Armenia

Reports & Research
December, 2017
Armenia
Urban Tenure
land administration
development
sustainable development
land policies
land-use planning
urban planning
urbanization
social housing
land management
natural disasters
land markets
land valuation
housing rights
This Country Profile (CP) of the Republic of Armenia is the nineteenth in the series and the second review done for the country. The first was prepared in 2004 and the analyses covered only the housing sector. This CP is an in-depth analyses of the housing, urban development and land management sectors of the Republic of Armenia. It provides policy recommendations on these sectors, while focusing on specific challenges and achievements.
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Building Farmer Cooperatives In Georgia

Supporting smallholder farming in the post-socialist context

Reports & Research
August, 2015
Georgia
poverty
land law
land policies
farming systems
agriculture
private ownership
farmers
farmers associations
Smallholder farmers in Georgia face multiple challenges, including low productivity and poor access to the inputs and capacities that they need. Oxfam and its partners are implementing a programme that aims to increase agricultural productivity and support the competitiveness of smallholder farmers. The project works with smallholder farmers to establish and strengthen business-oriented farmer groups. The project also promotes changes to national policy and legislation, in order to create a more conducive environment for their development.
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The Economics of Land Degradation in Georgia: Pasture Management

Legal and institutional analysis

Reports & Research
December, 2021
Georgia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land law
land policies
property law
land management
environment
pastoral lands
agricultural land management
pastoral land rights
pastoralists
Title: The economics of pasture management in Georgia: An economics of land degradation study
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Pasture Management in Georgia

Current situation, frame conditions, potentials of development

Reports & Research
August, 2015
Georgia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land law
land policies
property law
land degradation
pastoral lands
agricultural land management
agriculture
pastoral land rights
pastoralists
A study was conducted with the goal of describing the current frame conditions of pasture use in Georgia and identifying the bottlenecks and obstacles that restrict the productivity of Georgian pastures and limit the income generated by Georgian farmers from pasture related agricultural activities. Whenever possible, findings were elaborated into concrete proposals for action, addressing the legislator, donors, or project implementers.
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Stepping up: Protecting collective land rights through corporate due diliegence

Reports & Research
June, 2021
Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Australia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land policies
indigenous peoples' lands
pastoral lands
land rights
collective ownership
This guide is intended to supplement other resources that provide broader overviews of human rights due diligence. It will be particularly helpful for downstream businesses or investors as they navigate how to identify, address, and track the impacts of their value chains on indigenous peoples. The guide will also be useful for policymakers as they design due diligence legislation.
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Shifting Cultivation in Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal: Weighing Government Policies against Customary Tenure and Institutions

Reports & Research
July, 2015
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land governance
land policies
climate change
deforestation
farmland
indigenous peoples' lands
agriculture
sustainable land use
community land rights
Indigenous Peoples
Shifting cultivation is a dominant form of farming in the eastern Himalayas, practised by a diverse group of indigenous people from the most marginalized social and economic groups. The survival of these indigenous people and the survival of their forests are inextricably linked. However, policy makers and natural resource managers perceive shifting cultivation to be wasteful, destructive to forests, and unsustainable.
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Status of Land Tenure Security in Nepal

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2016
Nepal
land governance
land law
land policies
land reform
land productivity
land rights
landlessness
land tenure
tenure security
Land is a fundamental natural resource for living, an economic asset for production, legal entity with multiple rights over it and above all, a societal factor for self-actualization. So, ownership of land has multi-faceted understanding around the world. For the developing country like Nepal having diverse societal arrangements, land tenure system plays important role in economic, social and political structure.
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Land conflict resolution: case studies in the Philippines

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2002
Philippines
land law
land policies
land reform
agrarian reform
land conflicts
land dispute
land dispute resolution
land ownership
capacity development
farmers
smallholders
Indigenous Peoples
farmers associations
landowners
extractive industries
This article summarizes the nature of land-related conflicts in the Philippines within the context of the prevailing agrarian situation throughout the country. An analysis of the agrarian institutions and different types of development that have occurred in a number of regions provide a broad representation of the current situation.
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Review of Selected Land Laws and the Governance of Tenure in the Philippines

Discussion Paper in the context of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure (VGGT)

Reports & Research
October, 2014
Philippines
land governance
land policies
land reform
land use
land rights
land tenure
This discussion paper on the “VGGT and National Policies on the Governance of Tenure”3

has

been commissioned by the Asian NGO Coalition (ANGOC) as a member of the Philippine

Development Forum – Working Group on Sustainable Rural Development (PDF-SRD).4 This

paper examines national policies as embodied in the 1987 Philippine Constitution and the

major land and natural resource laws passed by the Philippine legislature. This research is
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Country Profiles on Housing and Land Management: Uzbekistan

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Uzbekistan
Urban Tenure
land law
land policies
land-use planning
land management
rural areas
housing rights
rural population
This Country Profile on Uzbekistan is the eighteenth in the series. The country profile programme continues to focus on specific challenges or achievements in the housing and land management sectors that are particularly relevant to the country under review. In the case of Uzbekistan, these issues include housing policies and government support measures for the construction of housing in rural areas; the increased demand for housing of the fast-growing population; and the depleted urban infrastructure inherited from Soviet times.