Search results

Showing items 1 through 9 of 11.

Library Resource

Zimbabwe’s land reform compensation deal agreed at last

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2020
Zimbabwe
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
land reform
land
compensation
farmers
An agreement between the Zimbabwean Government and the Commercial Farmers Union on compensation for land taken from white farmers was finally agreed on 29 July 2020;20 years after the land reform programme began. There had been previous attempts;but the science of asset valuation is far from exact. The issue had blocked international recognition of the Zimbabwean Government. Looks at the detractors and sceptics and asks how the agreed sum of US$3.5 billion will be paid for. Believes this is an immensely important step in a long-running and frustrating saga.
Library Resource

Lutas, Memórias e Violações no campo Brasileiro

Conflitos, repressão e resistências no passado e no presente

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2020
Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Brazil
Land Conflicts
land governance
conflicts
disturbance
displacement
dispossession
land conflicts
land dispute
government
Nos últimos anos intensificou-se o debate em torno das relações entre camponeses e a ditadura empresarial militar que se instalou no Brasil em 1964 e descortinaram-se várias questões novas bem como caminhos e fontes de pesquisa sobre o tema.
Library Resource

Améliorer le système d'expropriation et de compensation dans un contexte de pluralisme juridique: Leçons du Camerou

Vol 3, No 1: March 2020, Special Issue 2 on Land Policy in Africa

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2020
Africa
Land Conflicts
expropriation
compensation
dispossession
Cameroon is currently witnessing an unprecedented wave of land-based investments, ranging from natural resources exploitation (oil, mining and gas), logging, large infrastructure building, etc. These developments happen in a context of population growth, in an increase in the domestic demand for land. There is a gap between the legislation governing expropriation and compensation in the country, and the variety of customary rules on land and resources. This context of legal pluralism results into endless conflicts opposing communities and the investors, including the State.
Library Resource

Four Decades of Land-Cover Change on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska: Detecting Disturbance-Influenced Vegetation Shifts Using Landsat Legacy Data

Volume 9 Issue 10

Peer-reviewed publication
October, 2020
Global
land cover
disturbance
Across Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, disturbance events have removed large areas of forest over the last half century. Simultaneously, succession and landscape evolution have facilitated forest regrowth and expansion. Detecting forest loss within known pulse disturbance events is often straightforward given that reduction in tree cover is a readily detectable and measurable land-cover change. Land-cover change is more difficult to quantify when disturbance events are unknown, remote, or environmental response is slow in relation to human observation.
Library Resource

Report of a Home Office fact-finding mission to Sri Lanka

Conducted between 28 September and 5 October 2019. Published: 20 January 2020.

Reports & Research
January, 2020
Sri Lanka, United Kingdom
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
post-conflict settings
compensation
land conflicts
land dispute resolution
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
ABSTRACTED FROM PURPOSE OF THIS MISSION: The purpose of the mission was to gather accurate and up-to-date information from a range of sources about a number of issues concerning the treatment of Tamils including the government’s attitude to diaspora activities and the treatment of members of diaspora groups, in particular members of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE). The mission was also interested in gathering information about the treatment of members and former members of the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE).
Library Resource

The Impact of Urbanization on Farmland Productivity: Implications for China’s Requisition–Compensation Balance of Farmland Policy

Volume 9 Issue 9

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2020
China, Russia, United States of America
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
compensation
farmland
land productivity
urbanization
The rapid growth of China’s economy since the reform in 1978 should be largely attributed to urbanization. Nonetheless, in terms of farmland productivity, urbanization may lead to perverse incentives and thus threaten food security. On the one hand, the requisition–compensation balance of farmland (RCBF) policy could reduce farmland productivity because of a “superior occupation and inferior compensation”; on the other hand, urbanization promotes the transfer of the younger labor force and thus reduces the productivity of the agricultural labor force.
Library Resource

Landscape Disturbance Gradients: The Importance of the Type of Scene When Evaluating Landscape Preferences and Perceptions

Volume 9 Issue 9

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2020
Chile
Land, Climate Change & Environment
disturbance
geographical information systems
land cover
land use
Understanding of people’s landscape preferences is important for decision-making about land planning, particularly in the disturbance patterns that usually occur in rural-urban gradients. However, the use of different types of images concerning the same landscape may influence social preferences and thus perceptions of landscape management and planning decisions. We evaluated landscape preferences and perceptions in four landscapes of southern Chile.
Library Resource

From Closed to Claimed Spaces for Participation: Contestation in Urban Redevelopment Induced-Displacements and Resettlement in Kigali, Rwanda

Volume 9 Issue 7

Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2020
Central African Republic, Rwanda
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
compensation
development
displacement
expropriation
land acquisitions
resettlement
In many cities and urban areas in Africa, land acquisition for urban redevelopment, land readjustment, and resettlement of affected urban residents are currently framed as innovative approaches to eradicating informal settlements, improving the living environments, and supporting the implementation of newly adopted city Master Plans. Nevertheless, it is not yet known how the responses of institutions and affected people shape these processes.
Library Resource

Land Conversion for Tourism Development under Vietnam’s Ambiguous Property Rights over Land

Volume 9 Issue 6

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2020
Vietnam
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
compensation
development
land law
property
property rights
The paper aims to explore the process of land conversion for tourism development in Vietnam, under the present ambiguous and insecure property rights system. Four case studies in different geographical areas were selected to analyse land conversion and land compensation for tourism projects before and after the implementation of the new land law in 2013.
Library Resource

Comment la REDD+ peut-elle contribuer à promouvoir et soutenir les garanties sociales dans les législations nationales ?

Étude comparative des garanties sociales intégrées dans les législations du Ghana, du Libéria et de la République du Congo

Reports & Research
April, 2020
Congo, Ghana, Liberia
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
compensation
forest law
land tenure systems
L’Afrique de l’Ouest et centrale abrite 25 % des forêts tropicales de la planète. La déforestation y est une préoccupation centrale au défi climatique. Face à cette menace, des lois nationales visent à protéger et à restaurer les forêts, ainsi qu’à encadrer leur utilisation pour le développement national.