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   Land and forest tenure reform to support REDD+ implementation

   Institutional & promotional materials

   August, 2018

   Sierra Leone, Panama, Tunisia

   Forest Tenure

   forest land

   land reform

   land tenure

   Land and forest tenure systems greatly influence a country’s ability to reduce deforestation and forest degradation. Clear and legitimate tenure rights over forests can provide an incentive to manage forests sustainably and simultaneously reduce deforestation and forest degradation. In fact, communities and stakeholders with secure tenure rights have a strong interest in investing time and resources to maintain and enhance the natural capital under a long-term vision.

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   Tunisia Case Study: Prepared for FAO as part of the <i>State of the World’s Forests 2016 </i>(SOFO)

   Reports & Research

   December, 2016

   Georgia, Bangladesh, Ghana, Tunisia, Gambia, Costa Rica, Chile, Africa

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Forest Tenure

   sustainable land management

   land use

   land tenure

   forest land

   forest conservation

   land degradation

   Forests and woody vegetation cover a total surface area of 1.3 million ha in 2015 (FAO 2015) that represents 8% of the country surface area. It includes 1 million ha of forests and 0.3 Million ha of shrubs and other woody area. The forest area has increased from 643,000 ha in 1990 to 1,041,000 ha in 2015 ((FAO 2015) that corresponds to an increase by 62% in the last twenty five years or an annual increase of 1.9%.

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   Georgia Case Study: Prepared for FAO as part of the <i> State of the World’s Forests 2016 </i> (SOFO)

   Reports & Research

   December, 2016

   Georgia, Ghana, Tunisia, Gambia, Costa Rica, Chile, Germany, Asia

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Forest Tenure

   sustainable land management

   land use

   land tenure

   forest land

   forest conservation

   land degradation

   The <i>State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) 2016 “Forests and Agriculture – Land Use Challenges and Opportunities” </i> examines the competing demands for land for forests and agriculture; and the relationship between forest cover changes and food security. In particular, forests and food security highlight the possibility to meet food security objectives while maintaining or increasing existing forests.

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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.