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   Fisheries in the Drylands of sub-Saharan Africa

   Journal Articles & Books

   May, 2016

   Burkina Faso, Nigeria, United States of America, Rwanda, Zambia, Mali, Burundi, Namibia, Ghana, South Sudan, Malawi, Niger, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Italy, Tanzania, Botswana, Netherlands, Senegal, Chad, Norway, Africa, Southern Africa

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   natural resources management

   climate change

   water management

   land management

   fisheries

   The focus of this review has been on both documenting the general resilience of many fish resources to climatic variability and its underestimation in livelihood importance, including in protracted crisis situations, but also on enhancing the potential supply of fish from dryland areas by better use of the available water bodies, and in particular from small reservoirs.

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   Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993 (1993 Cap. 44).

   An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to crofting, with amendments to give effect to recommendations of the Scottish Law Commission.

   Legislation

   United Kingdom, Europe, Northern Europe

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   customary law

   pastoralists

   land subdivision

   fisheries

   leases

   grazing

   This Act continues into being the Crofters Commission and provides with respect to crofting, a particular form of land tenure exercised in Scotland and related matters such acquisition of land by crofters. The Commission was established by the he Crofters (Scotland) Act 1955.

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   Act No. 85 of 2005 relating to legal relations and management of land and natural resources in the county of Finnmark (Finnmark Act)

   Lov om rettsforhold og forvaltning av grunn og naturressurser i Finnmark fylke [Finnmarksloven]

   Legislation

   Norway, Europe, Northern Europe

   Land Conflicts

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   Forest Tenure

   customary law

   pastoralists

   environment

   fisheries

   land management

   forest land

   land dispute resolution

   forest conservation

   land ownership

   This Act provides for the management of land and natural resources in the county of Finnmark. This shall be done in a balanced and ecologically sustainable manner for the benefit of the residents of the county and particularly as so as to enhance Sami culture, reindeer husbandry, use of non-cultivated areas, commercial activity and social life. The Act shall apply to real property and watercourses with natural resources in the county of Finnmark. On the shoreline, the Act shall apply as far out to sea as private right of ownership extends.