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    Land-use change in the Caucasus during and after the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    Armenia, Azerbaijan

    Socioeconomic shocks can shape future land-use trajectories. Armed conflicts are an extreme form of a socioeconomic shock, but our understanding of how armed conflicts affect land-use change is limited. Our goal was to assess land-use changes related to the 1991–1994 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus region. We classified multi-temporal Landsat imagery, mapped land-use changes during and after the conflict, and applied matching statistics to isolate the effect of the conflict from other potential drivers of land change.

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    Restoration of Land Rights of People Affected by Land Appropriations and Tenure Insecurity

    A case study based on five selected locations in Sri Lanka where the land rights of people have been violated due to land grabbing or tenure insecurity

    Reports & Research
    April, 2017
    Sri Lanka

    This study is prepared using the data analysis of a field study conducted in January 2017 in the Districts of Monaragala, Ampara, Trincomalee, Mullaitivu and Jaffna in Sri Lanka focusing on the land rights violations that took place in the recent past due to the appropriation of land from the ordinary citizens by the security forces and individuals backed by powerful people and, the tenure security problems faced by the landless rural communities in Monaragala and Ampara districts and the sugar cane farmers living in the settlements of Pelwatta Sugar Company, which is now owned by the gover

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    Farmers Brief for Public Resources
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2015
    Bangladesh

    ABSTRACTED FROM INTRODUCTION: This brief has been developed by incorporating farmers’ perspective in relation to the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance Tenure (VGGT) of Land, Fisheries and Forest Tenure in the National Food Security Context of Bangladesh. The brief also recommends some immediate action points from farmers' perspectives, relies deeply on policy documents and exemplify some activities in relation to the national policies and strategic documents.

  4. Library Resource
    Regulations
    May, 2014
    Vietnam

    This Decree, consisting of 103 articles divided into ten Chapters, details a number articles and clauses of Land Law No. 45/2013/QHB. Other decrees of the Government shall detail a number of articles and clauses of the Land Law concerning: compensation, support, resettlement; land prices; collection of land use levy; collection of land and water surface rentals; and sanctioning of land-related administrative violations. The subjects of application are: 1.

  5. Library Resource
    Legislation
    December, 2017
    Peru

    La presente Ley establece medidas complementarias para la promoción del acceso a la propiedad formal y otorga nuevas facultades al Organismo de Formalización de la Propiedad Informal (COFOPRI), con la finalidad de permitir que la población de menores recursos económicos acceda a la formalización de sus predios, mediante mecanismos técnicos y legales de carácter simplificado y en menores plazos.El COFOPRI, a pedido de las municipalidades, diseña, implementa, gestiona y ejecuta de forma directa, las actividades catastrales de levantamiento y/o actualización catastral urbana dentro de la juris

  6. Library Resource
    Legislation
    October, 1997
    Latvia

    The Law prescribes the procedures for the completion of land reform in rural areas, as well as the rights of use of land and the property relationship must be adjusted and disputes in issues related to land reform must be examined until the completion thereof. The norms of this Law are applicable, if it has not been specified otherwise in the Law on Completion of State and Local Government Property Privatisation and Utilisation of Privatisation Certificates.

  7. Library Resource
    Regulations
    October, 2016
    Colombia

    La presente Resolución modifica la que integra el Comité de Conciliación del Ministerio de Vivienda, Ciudad y Territorio, respecto a sus miembros permanentes y a quienes invite con carácter obligatorio, por ser funcionarios de la entidad que por su condición jerárquica, funcional o conocimiento técnico deban asistir con ocasión de los casos que se sometan a consideración del Comité.

    Enmienda: Resolución Nº 165 - Integra el Comité de Conciliación del Ministerio de Vivienda, Ciudad y Territorio. (2014-03-27)

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    Regulations
    May, 2017
    Colombia

    La presente Resolución tiene por objeto adoptar la Metodología para realizar la focalización territorial para la ejecución de la política pública de ordenamiento social de la propiedad rural en la modalidad de barrido predial, y para la definición de las zonas de asignación del Subsidio Integral de Reforma Agraria (SIRA).

  9. Library Resource
    Regulations
    November, 2017
    Kenya

    These Regulations of the Cabinet Secretary for Land and Physical Planning implement provisions of the Community Land Act, 2016 ("Act") with respect to, among other things, recognition, protection and registration of community land rights, community land management committees, registration of communities, conversion of community land, settlement of disputes relating to community land, conversion of group representatives, a national programme for public education and awareness on provisions of the Act and the rights of communities over community land, and the preparation of Community Rules an

  10. Library Resource
    Regulations
    May, 2016
    Peru

    La presente Resolución aprueba la relación de procedimientos administrativos y servicios derivados de la actividad catastral a cargo de las Direcciones Regionales de Agricultura de los Gobiernos Regionales a los que se ha transferido la función de saneamiento físico legal de la propiedad agraria, incluyendo su denominación, plazo máximo de atención y requisitos máximos para cada procedimiento.

    Implementa: Ley Nº 27867 - Ley Orgánica de Gobiernos Regionales. (2002-11-16)

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