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  1. Library Resource
    eia in focus
    Manuals & Guidelines
    February, 2015
    Global

    This guide helps civil society organisations and the representatives of interest groups to better understand the technical jargon of the Environmental impact assessment process and to understand its structure, functions and aims.

    This resource is part of the CCSI’s Directory of Community Guidance on Agreements Relating to Agriculture or Forestry Investment.

  2. Library Resource
    GT
    Conference Papers & Reports
    March, 2015
    South America, Brazil

    Brazil has the fifth-largest national land area in the world and this land resource represents a critical asset for the country’s urban, agricultural, and economic development, also providing essential environmental services. Nevertheless, it has a historical lack of governance over its lands, failing to provide secure land rights and to control the extensive frauds resulting in public and private land grabs. The objective of this study is to depict evidence of these land grabs and propose a typology for analyzing them.

  3. Library Resource
    GT
    Conference Papers & Reports
    March, 2015
    Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Brazil

    From colonial to modern times, Brazilian agricultural property has remained immersed in a chaotic vortex of deregulation. Attempts of institutional reform - such as the Lei de Terras (Land Law) of 1850 - have been largely unsuccessful, whilst providing legal grounds for land grab by large estates and narrowing the scope of possibilities open for legitimate reevaluations of the first institutional landmark on land use and ownership in the country - the sesmarias.

  4. Library Resource

    The Growth Challenge--Can Ugandan Cities Get to Work?

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    February, 2015
    Uganda, Africa

    This Fifth Edition of the Uganda Economic Update presents evidence that if the urbanization process is well managed, it has the potential to stimulate economic growth and to provide productive jobs for a greater proportion of Uganda’s young and rapidly expanding population. In many countries across the world, the growth of cities has stimulated the establishment and expansion of productive businesses by reducing the distance between suppliers and customers. The growth of cities has also facilitated provision of social services and infrastructure through economies of scale.

  5. Library Resource

    The Making of land Grabbing Millionaires

    Journal Articles & Books
    Reports & Research
    March, 2015
    Kenya

    Illegal and irregular allocations of public land were a common feature of the Moi regime and perhaps it’s most pervasive corrupt practice. The Ndung’u Report as well as various reports of the Public Investment Committee details numerous cases of public land illegal allocated to individuals and companies in total disregard of the law and public interest. Most allocations were made to politically correct individuals without justification and resulted in individuals being unjustly enriched at great cost to the people of Kenya.

  6. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    Legislation
    National Policies
    March, 2015
    Kenya

    The Land Act, 2012

    The Land Registration Act, 2012

    The National Land Commission Act, 2012

    The Environment & Land Court Act, 2011

    The Urban Areas & Cities Act, 2011

  7. Library Resource
    February, 2015
    Sri Lanka

    Economic progress is accompanied by a
    fundamental spatial transformation where the economic
    landscapes of countries become increasingly uneven. The
    journey from low incomes to high incomes involves rising
    concentration of prosperity in a few places. Connecting
    people to prosperity - is the principle behind economic
    integration policies that can help countries reap the
    benefits of both uneven growth and inclusive development.

  8. Library Resource
    February, 2015
    India

    In the past 50 years, Indian agriculture
    has undergone a major transformation, from dependence on
    food aid to becoming a consistent net food exporter. The
    gradual reforms in the agricultural sector (following the
    broader macro-reforms of the early 1990s) spurred some
    unprecedented innovations and changes in the food sector
    driven by private investment. These impressive achievements
    must now be viewed in light of the policy and investment

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