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Réforme Agraire: Colonisation et coopératives agricoles 2002/1

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2002
France, Benin, Switzerland, Chile, Ukraine, China, Australia, Ireland, Canada, Venezuela, Guinea, Colombia, Japan, Italy, Brazil, Argentina, United Kingdom, Mexico, Norway
Land & Investments
land governance
land policies
land reform
right of access
tenant's rights
farming systems
land use
land economics
land tax
land management
poverty
rural development
land tenure
land markets
leases
agrarian reform
land ownership
Land and land reform cover a great range, both in terms of the geographical and development status of the countries considered, and of the variety of perspectives on the issues. The articles in this issue of Land Reform, Land Resettlement and Cooperatives reflect this breadth in a variety of ways. The articles range geographically from the paper addressing land and agrarian reform in Colombia, by Professor Darío Fajardo, to a consideration of the land reforms currently under way in Scotland, by Douglas Macmillan, Ken Thomson and Bill Slee.
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The state of food and agriculture, 2008

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2008
France, Nigeria, United States of America, Chile, Sweden, Germany, China, Indonesia, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, Finland, Thailand, Japan, South Africa, Malaysia, Italy, Tanzania, India, Russia, Mexico, Brazil
land use
poverty
The State of Food and Agriculture 2008 explores the implications of the rapid recent growth in production of biofuels based on agricultural commodities. The boom in liquid biofuels has been largely induced by policies in developed countries, based on their expected positive contributions to climate-change mitigation, energy security and agricultural development.
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Putting Payments for Environmental Services in the Context of Economic Development

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2006
Brazil, United States of America, Mexico, Costa Rica, Germany, China, Italy
environment
natural resources management
poverty
Paying for the provision of environmental services is a recent policy innovation that is attracting much attention in both developed and developing countries. The innovation involves a move away from command and control environmental policies, harnessing market forces to obtain more efficient environmental outcomes.
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World Agriculture: Towards 2015/2030. An FAO perspective

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2003
Egypt, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Gambia, Mali, Burkina Faso, China, Indonesia, Canada, Iran, Benin, Pakistan, Uruguay, Thailand, Italy, Iraq, India, Chad, Mexico, Brazil, Ghana
forestry
agricultural land management
natural resources management
environment
fisheries
poverty
rural development
agriculture
World agriculture: towards 2015/2030 is FAO’s latest assessment of the long-term outlook for the world’s food supplies, nutrition and agriculture. It presents the projections and the main messages. The projections cover supply and demand for the major agricultural commodities and sectors, including fisheries and forestry. This analysis forms the basis for a more detailed examination of other factors, such as nutrition and undernourishment, and the implications for international trade.
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Legal bases for the management of forest resources as common property

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1999
Nigeria, United States of America, Nepal, Zambia, Gambia, Bolivia, Guatemala, China, Tonga, Guinea, Ethiopia, Niger, Panama, Kenya, Albania, Italy, Tanzania, Syrian Arab Republic, India, Senegal, Mexico, Brazil
Forest Tenure
decentralization
public ownership
natural resources management
land tenure
forestry
poverty
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Rural Poverty and Natural Resources: Improving Access and Sustainable Management

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Egypt, Bangladesh, Zambia, Chile, Samoa, Peru, Indonesia, Bolivia, China, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Malawi, Panama, Kenya, South Africa, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Madagascar, Italy, Cambodia, India, Mexico, Netherlands, Oceania, Asia, Africa, Americas
natural resources management
land rights
poverty
This paper was prepared as a Background Paper for Chapter 2 of the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s 2009 Rural Poverty Report. It begins by providing an overview discussion of the diversity of natural resources in developing countries, and rights of access, tenure and governance relevant to the rural poor, who are disproportionately dependent on natural resources.
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Réforme agraire: colonisation et coopératives agricoles 1998/1

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1998
Serbia, France, North Macedonia, Bangladesh, Honduras, United States of America, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Colombia, Kenya, Morocco, Japan, Uganda, Albania, Italy, Tanzania, Ecuador, Tunisia, Senegal, Sudan, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, Americas
Land & Investments
Forest Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land governance
land consolidation
land policies
land
public ownership
agricultural and rural legislation
farming systems
land use
collective ownership
rural population
land tenure
land markets
land management
poverty
rangelands
rural development
private ownership
forest land
land reform
agrarian reform
land ownership
This issue of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives includes interesting descriptions of land tenure and related policies in Uganda, Tunisia, the United Republic of Tanzania and Morocco. Two thought-provoking articles on access to land and other assets focus on policies to reduce poverty and the function of markets in the allocation of production resources. In the first, J. Melmed-Sanjak and S.