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Innovative Land Administration Approaches for Sustainable Development: Belarusian Success Factors

Reports & Research
July, 2016
Belarus, Brazil, Central African Republic, Norway, United States of America
development
land
land administration
sustainable development
Belarus has preserved its third position in Registering Property in the World Bank’s Doing Business 2014 report. Constant improvement of property registration procedures has allowed Belarus to achieve that. The Registering Property indicator takes into account three factors: the number of procedures required to transfer rights to property, the time spent on completing all the necessary procedures and the cost of procedures. From ”The Earth Summit“ in Brazil 1992 sustainable development recognized by almost all societies as one of the major global goals.
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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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Driving Dispossession: The Global Push to “Unlock the Economic Potential of Land”

Reports & Research
July, 2014
Zambia, Brazil, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Papua New Guinea
land governance
development
land economics
land investments
land rights
dispossession
Indigenous Peoples
Driving Dispossession: The Global Push to “Unlock the Economic Potential of Land,” sounds the alarm on the unprecedented wave of privatization of natural resources that is underway around the world. Through six case studies — Ukraine, Zambia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Brazil — the report details the myriad ways by which governments — willingly or under the pressure of financial institutions and Western donor agencies — are putting more land into so-called “productive use” in the name of development.
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Secure Land Tenure Rights for All: Key Condition for Sustainable Development

Successful Approaches and Their Impacts

Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2019
Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda, Namibia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Brazil, Peru, Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Eastern Europe, Global
cadastral administration
community land rights
customary tenure
displacement
eviction
gender equity in access to land
informal settlements
land registration
land rights
land tenure systems
private ownership
public ownership
tenure security
tenure regularization
The aim of this policy paper is to present successful approaches to secure land tenure rights in rural and urban areas. To support future programmatic decisions by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), this paper focusses especially on impacts and good practices. It discusses examples from the German technical cooperation but also includes good practices and impacts achieved by other development partners.
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Report of the 24th Session of the Committee on Forestry

Reports & Research
September, 2018
Equatorial Guinea, United States of America, Dominican Republic, Sweden, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Costa Rica, Poland, Netherlands, Latvia, Austria, Iran, Finland, Thailand, Morocco, Japan, Italy, Norway, Sudan, Brazil, Cuba
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
sustainable land management
forest land
Report of the 24th Session of the Committee on Forestry
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Moving forward

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Angola, Liechtenstein, Bangladesh, United States of America, Congo, Comoros, Cameroon, Uzbekistan, Switzerland, Kenya, Zambia, Denmark, Rwanda, Philippines, Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Brazil, Tunisia, Argentina, Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Czech Republic
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
forestry
natural resources management
sustainable land management
forest land
Forests, trees and woodlands cover almost one-third of the Earth’s land area. They are a crucial source of food and income for more than a billion people around the globe. They provide a variety of wood and non-wood products and vital ecosystem services – preventing erosion from wind and water, preserving water quality, shading crops and livestock, absorbing carbon which contributes to countering climate change, and providing habitat for many species of plants and animals, thus helping to conserve the planet’s biological diversity.
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Base de référence mondiale pour les ressources en sols 2014, Mise à jour 2015. Système international de classification des sols pour nommer les sols et élaborer des légendes de cartes pédologiques

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2018
France, Belgium, United States of America, Philippines, Canada, Nicaragua, Bulgaria, Madagascar, Denmark, Luxembourg, Poland, Netherlands, Venezuela, New Zealand, Brazil, Ghana
land-use planning
land use
land use mapping
La première édition de la Base de référence mondiale pour les ressources en sols (WRB) a été publiée lors du 16ème Congrès Mondial de la Science du Sol à Montpellier en 1998. Lors du même événement, elle fut adoptée comme système de corrélation des sols et de communication internationale de l'Union Internationale des Sciences du Sol (IUSS). La seconde édition de la WRB a été publiée au 18ème Congrès Mondial à Philadelphie en 2006.<p></p>Après huit années de tests intensifs et de collectes de données dans le monde entier, la troisième édition de la WRB est publiée en 2014.
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Base referencial mundial del recurso suelo 2014

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2018
France, United States of America, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Chile, Australia, Denmark, Austria, Poland, Netherlands, Argentina, New Zealand, Canada, Brazil, Ghana
land-use planning
land use
land use mapping
La tercera edición de la WRB incorpora, en el nuevo capítulo 2, elementos que permiten generar nombres taxonómicos mucho más informativos que llevan a deducir con facilidad la génesis y funciones de los suelos. Por otro lado, esta nueva versión de la WRB facilita la elaboración de leyendas de mapas a varias escalas para uso multifinalitario.
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Sources of international water law

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2019
Belgium, Chile, Albania, Denmark, Italy, Bulgaria, Bolivia, Cuba, New Zealand, China, Colombia, Brazil, Austria
natural resources management
water management
This publication provides the text of general conventions, declarations, resolutions and decisions adopted by international organizations, international NGOs and international and arbitral tribunals on international rivers, lakes, relevant basins and underground aquifers. It provides easy access to a vast body of sources of international water law.
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Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

Reports & Research
February, 2019
Ethiopia, Namibia, Burkina Faso, Niger, Panama, Brazil, Jordan, Romania, Russia, Italy, Samoa
Land & Food Security
VGGT
land governance
food security
land tenure
The guidelines are the first comprehensive, global instrument on tenure and its administration to be prepared through intergovernmental negotiations. The guidelines set out principles and internationally accepted standards of responsible practices for the use and control of land, fisheries and forests.