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   Why Law Matters: Design Principles for Strengthening the Role of Forestry Legislation in Reducing Illegal Activities and Corrupt Practices

   Journal Articles & Books

   April, 2002

   Burkina Faso, Honduras, Peru, Guinea-Bissau, Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Guinea, Cameroon, Indonesia, Mozambique, Laos, Philippines, South Africa, Italy, Tanzania, Ecuador, India, Paraguay

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Forest Tenure

   forest conservation

   land governance

   agricultural and rural legislation

   land tenure

   The damage caused by illegal activities and corrupt practices in the world’s forests is a problem of enormous proportions. In many parts of the world, forest exploitation is dominated by rampant illegal harvesting, large-scale violation of trade regulations both domestically and internationally, fraudulent practices abetted or condoned by government officials and other destructive activities in violation of applicable laws. This paper is concerned with one facet of this complex problem–how important is legislation in the fight against destructive and corrupt forestry practices?

2. Library Resource

   

   Réforme agraire: colonisation et coopératives agricoles 1998/1

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 1998

   Serbia, France, North Macedonia, Bangladesh, Honduras, United States of America, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Colombia, Kenya, Morocco, Japan, Uganda, Albania, Italy, Tanzania, Ecuador, Tunisia, Senegal, Sudan, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, Americas

   Land & Investments

   Forest Tenure

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   land governance

   land consolidation

   land policies

   land

   public ownership

   agricultural and rural legislation

   farming systems

   land use

   collective ownership

   rural population

   land tenure

   land markets

   land management

   poverty

   rangelands

   rural development

   private ownership

   forest land

   land reform

   agrarian reform

   land ownership

   This issue of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives includes interesting descriptions of land tenure and related policies in Uganda, Tunisia, the United Republic of Tanzania and Morocco. Two thought-provoking articles on access to land and other assets focus on policies to reduce poverty and the function of markets in the allocation of production resources. In the first, J. Melmed-Sanjak and S.