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Le foncier rural dans les pays du Sud

Peer-reviewed publication
Reports & Research
January, 2023
Africa, Northern Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Lebanon, France, Oceania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land governance
climate change
desertification
land investments
land rights

Dans les pays du Sud, l’accès à la terre et à ses ressources, son contrôle et ses usages représentent des questions cruciales. Au cœur des défis de la construction de l’État, du développement agricole, de la sécurité alimentaire et de la durabilité environnementale, le foncier est aussi un marqueur identitaire et une source récurrente de conflits.
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Deriving countermeasures to the use of housing, land and property rights as a war-financing commodity

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2022
Africa, Americas, Eastern Asia, Western Asia, Europe, Global
Land & Corruption
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
Urban Tenure
land administration
land documentation
land records
title deeds
land titling
corruption
conflicts
Efforts to thwart the trafficking of conflict commodities to finance wars constitute an ongoing endeavour. As specific approaches become effective for certain commodities, belligerent actors pursue new forms of exploitation. The trafficking of housing, land and property (HLP) rights in war zones has now reached a pervasiveness, lucrativeness and severity to warrant significant attention on the derivation of countermeasures.
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Housing, land and property rights as war financing commodities: A typology with lessons from Darfur, Colombia and Syria

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2022
Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Western Asia, Europe, Oceania, Global
Land & Corruption
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
Urban Tenure
land documentation
land records
land registration
deed registration
land governance
post-conflict settings
expropriation
land law
conflicts
land acquisitions
land ownership
The ongoing use of landscape-based conflict commodities — diamonds and other minerals, timber, wildlife, etc. — to finance wars continues to evolve. The success with which such commodities can be transacted to support militaries, militias and insurgencies has led belligerents to innovate with additional commodities. Housing, land and property (HLP) rights within war zones have belatedly joined the list of conflict commodities that are subject to transaction, and to such an extent as to warrant significant concern.
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Study on Fraud in Land Administration Systems

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
October, 2021
Northern America, Central Asia, Western Asia, Europe
Land & Corruption
land administration
land governance
corruption
land access
right of access
This publication is based on the “Study on Fraud in Land Administration Systems” presented at the Twelfth Session of the Working Party on Land Administration in 2021. It is an update to the 2011 “Study on the Challenges of Fraud to Land Administration Institutions" (ECE/HBP/165). It analyses the current state of play and best practices in addressing fraud in land administration systems in the ECE region.
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Résolutions février 2021

Sociétés civiles en danger

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Middle Africa, Colombia, Palestine, France
Urban Tenure
land practitioners
development agencies
farmers associations
grassroots organizations
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Legal Instruments to implement the objective “Land Degradation Neutral World” in International Law

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Brazil, United States of America, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land-use planning
land degradation
The protection of fertile soils is a precondition for sustainable development. In the final document of the conference of the United Nations on sustainable development in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20 Conference), the international community thus agreed to strive for a “land degradation neutral world”. The legal study by Ecologic Institute, Berlin, firstly scrutinizes some national legislation (Germany/EU, USA and Brazil) in order to identify legal instruments which are suitable for the implementation of the goal of a “land degradation neutral world”.
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Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration in Violent Conflict Settings

Volume 10 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Honduras, Iraq, Norway, Panama, Peru, Sudan, Somalia, South Sudan, United States of America
land administration
land governance
According to the United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency, there were 79.5 million forcibly displaced people worldwide by the end of 2019. Evictions from homes and land are often linked to protracted violent conflict. Land administration (LA) can be a small part of UN peace-building programs addressing these conflicts. Through the lens of the UN and seven country cases, the problem being addressed is: what are the key features of fit-for-purpose land administration (FFP LA) in violent conflict contexts?
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Spatiotemporal Evolution Analysis of Habitat Quality under High-Speed Urbanization: A Case Study of Urban Core Area of China Lin-Gang Free Trade Zone (2002–2019)

Volume 10 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
China, Czech Republic, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Urban Tenure
urbanization
This paper, examining the Pilot Free Trade Zone Lin-Gang Special Area in China (Shanghai), identifies the relationship between urban expansion and habitat change and analyzes the influence mechanism of habitat quality (HQ) on spatiotemporal distribution. The results show the following: (1) From 2002 to 2019, the HQ in the study area decreased significantly, and the spatial differences gradually expanded over time. The HQ was low in the southwest and high in the northeast, and low-level habitats gradually moved to the southwest.
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3D Digital Representation of Cadastral Data in Turkey—Apartments Case

Volume 9 Issue 6

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2020
Norway, Turkey, United States of America
land
research
With the widespread use of three-dimensional (3D) geographic information technologies, studies for 3D digital representation of property units in cadasters have increased in recent years. In Turkey, a project named 3D City Models and Cadasters was initiated by the General Directorate of Land Registries and Cadasters in 2018. With this project, which is planned to last four years, it aims to create 3D models of individual units (apartments) in buildings and provide visual representations of these individual units with legal information.
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Political Economy of Statebuilding

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2013
Sudan, Burundi, Haiti, Afghanistan, Georgia, Iraq, North Macedonia, Kosovo
Land in post-conflict settings
land administration
land dispute
land governance
This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of conflict-affected countries over the past 20 years. It focuses on countries that are emerging, or have recently emerged, from periods of war and protracted conflict. The interventions covered fall into three broad categories: