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  1. Library Resource
    papua land act
    Legislation
    May, 1996
    Papua New Guinea

    Being an Act relating to land, to consolidate and amend legislation relating to land, and to repeal various statutes, and for related purposes.  

  2. Library Resource
    Legislation
    January, 1997
    Tonga

    This Act amends Clauses 77 (concerning elections) and 113 (regarding right to allotments) of the Constitution of Tonga.

    Amends: Act of Constitution of Tonga. (1875-11-01)

  3. Library Resource
    Legislation
    May, 1996
    Australia

    This Act provides for the division of land into lots and common property, and for the administration of the land by the owners of the lots. A plan of community division may, in addition to dividing land into community lots and common property, create one or more development lots to enable division of the community parcel to be undertaken in stages. A community corporation is established when a plan of community division is deposited by the Registrar-General in the Lands Titles Registration Office.

  4. Library Resource
    January, 1997
    Cambodia, Oceania, Eastern Asia

    A recent eighteen-month economic study of the benefits of alternative uses of forest and in Ratanakiri province recommends the exclusion of customary forest land from current and future commercial concessions. The study compares the economic benefits of using forest land in Ratanakiri for the traditional collection of non-timber forest products by ethnic communities, with the benefits of commercial timber harvesting. The main conclusions of the study are that non-timber forest products (NTFP) are worth a lot, much more than previously thought.

  5. Library Resource
    January, 1997
    Thailand, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    Population pressures play less of a role in deforestation than earlier studies of Thailand found. Between 1976 and 1989, Thailand lost 28 percent ofits forest cover. To analyze how road building, population pressure,and geophysical factors affected deforestation in Thailand during that period, Cropper, Griffiths, and Mani develop a model in whichthe amount of land cleared, the number of agricultural households,and the size of the road network are jointly determined.The model assumes that the amount of land cleared reflects an equilibrium in the land market.

  6. Library Resource
    January, 1996
    Vietnam, Oceania, Eastern Asia

    Socialist Republic of Viet Nam is undergoing a process of transformation from a centrally planned economy to a market-oriented economy.

  7. Library Resource
    January, 1996
    Fiji, Oceania, Eastern Asia

    Considers the cultural dimension of applying the land information system (LIS) concept to lands held under customary land tenure. The article recognizes that the LIS concept has been developed primarily to serve the needs of countries with a western-style land market where individual land rights are the norm. However, many countries where customary landholdings exist, or predominate, are also interested in establishing LISs to manage their land resources better. The article has three main sections.

  8. Library Resource
    January, 1996
    China, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    With the introduction of rural reforms in the early 1980s, China broke with its
    collectivist past and began the arduous transition from a centrally planned to a free
    market economy. The People’s Communes – the institutional basis of
    agriculture under Mao – were disbanded, and communal land was
    redistributed to users through a family-based ‘Household Contract
    Responsibility System’ (HCRS), which offered farmers more managerial

  9. Library Resource
    January, 1996
    Indonesia, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    A recommendation: Indonesia should repeal its export tax on crude palm oil and discontinue buffer stock operations and directed sales from public estates. It is time for Indonesia to complete the evolution from public interventions in the palm oil market to private sector initiative in response to international price signals.Debate on Indonesia's palm oil policy was stimulated by a sharp increase in cooking oil prices in 1994-95 and a resulting increase in the export tax rate on crude palm oil. Palm oil has been one of the fastest growing subsectors in Indonesia.

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