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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2013
    Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Africa

    The article examines the European share in large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper aims to identify correlation between biofuels policy and large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa and the consequences of this phenomenon. It first identifies the backgrounds that caused the increased interest in biofuel production and, consequently, African land acquisition in recent years. Then, it examines growth in the number of land transactions that take place on the continent. Finally, the paper investigates the share of European capital in land transactions.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Africa

    This report examines the role of European Union (EU) member States, both collectively and individually, in the current reported wave of foreign land investment in Africa that has led to the current use of the term ‘land grabbing’.It discusses whether this role is consistent with the EU’s commitment to advance agriculture in Africa in order to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals and member states’ obligations under international human rights law.

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    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

    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”.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2019
    Belgium, Sweden, Germany, Malaysia, Portugal, Netherlands, Lebanon, France, Slovakia, Spain, Chile, Guatemala, Denmark, Ireland, Greece, Finland, Thailand, New Zealand, Morocco, Italy, Hungary, Norway

    Given its wide scope on the work on forests, FAO requests information from its member countries in many different ways, using various reporting formats and questionnaires. The collected information is used to produce several outputs such as databases, overviews, reports, case-studies and other analyses. Below the flow of information from countries to FAO is sorted in two main categories: 1. Regular reporting requests and 2. Other reporting requests. The regular reporting requests contain information regularly reported by countries to FAO.

  5. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    July, 2011
    Slovenia, France, Estonia, Slovakia, Belgium, Spain, Luxembourg, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Bulgaria, Latvia, Greece, Malta, Finland, Cyprus, Lithuania, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Netherlands, Ireland, Romania, Czech Republic

    Great share of rented land in total utilised area as well as a significant variability of land rent and market prices of land causes a need of research that would assess which factors influence the land rent as well as the price of land and how significant such factor are in each state. The average land rent is significantly lower in new EU member states than in the EU 15 members. There is a strong dependence of land rent on the intensity of production. Subsidies have moderate to medium influence.

  6. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 1997
    Slovenia, North Macedonia, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Albania, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Austria, Czech Republic, Netherlands

    The registration system of immovable property in Albania was chosen for four basic reasons: (1) it protects the right of immovable property owners by providing strong and reliable evidence about ownership and other interests in immovable properties; (2) it is simple and inexpensive to administer and maintain; (3) it provides the public with easily accessible information which they need to buy and sell, mortgage, and rent immovable property, thereby providing the basis for a market-oriented economy; and, (4) it permits the building of a Geographical Information System with property informati

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    Slovenia, Estonia, Slovakia, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Belarus, United Kingdom, Finland, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Czech Republic

    Meeting Name: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)
    Meeting symbol/code: CGRFA-16/17/Inf.11.3
    Session: Sess. 16

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Georgia, Europe, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, United Kingdom, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland

    FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and other development partners are working together with countries to prepare Voluntary Guidelines that will provide practical guidance to states, civil society, the private sector, donors and development specialists on the responsible governance of tenure. By setting out principles and internationally accepted standards for responsible practices, the Voluntary Guidelines will provide a framework and point of reference that stakeholders can use when developing their own policies and actions.

  9. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1999
    Egypt, Estonia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Sweden, Ukraine, Denmark, Germany, Latvia, Finland, Japan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Poland, Netherlands, Russia, Norway, France, Europe

    This report presents the outcome of a macroeconomic survey of the forest sector of the Republic of Latvia. It presents issues and parameters facing public and private sector decision-makers in their respective attempts to develop this sector. It identifies opportunities and constraints to investment and proposes measures to, accordingly, either engage them or remove them. It also attempts to introduce simple methodologies to undertake analysis currently constrained by the absence of more comprehensive data.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2003
    Slovenia, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, United Kingdom, Canada, Russia, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Netherlands, Ireland, Czech Republic, Turkey, Norway, Austria, Europe

    This study deals with the challenge of adjusting inconsistencies in the historical data series over time for the main forest resources parameters based on the UNECE/FAO Forest Resources Assessments (FRA) source data. It describes the methods used to improve the quality of long-term series based on national inventory data and assesses trends for a number of European countries. It attempts to identify driving forces behind major long-term changes in key forest resource parameters.

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