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GTZ's Land Use Planning Methods, Strategies and Tools

These guidelines from the Working Group on Integrated Land Use Planning (WGLUP) are a further step in developing an approach to gender-sensitive land use planning (LUP) within the framework of development co-operation

Training Resources & Tools
January, 1999
Global
gender equity in access to land
rural development
property law
agriculture
natural resources management
land rights
capacity development
farmers
women
[adapted from GTZ] 1999- More than one hundred technical co-operation projects on three continents supported by the various technical departments of GTZ were involved in this discussion on Land Use Planning, paying specific attention to gender and women’s promotion through its pilot program “Gender and Women’s Promotion”.
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Monitoring land quality : assuring more sustainable agricultural production systems

Journal Articles & Books
September, 1998
Global
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land
land suitability
natural resources management
property
research
sustainable land management
Identification of Land Quality Indicators (LQIs) is a key requirement of sustainable land management. They are required to assess, monitor, and evaluate changes in the quality of land resources and environmental impacts. The Land Quality Indicator (LQI) program monitors the environment and the sector performance of managed ecosystems. The program is being developed on a national and regional scale, but it is also part of a larger global effort to improve natural resource management. The LQI program recommends addressing issues of land management by agroecological zones.
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Causes and consequences of changing land tenure institutions in Western Ghana

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 1998
Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Ghana
Forest Tenure
Land & Gender
property rights
land tenure
land tenure systems
forestry
forest management plans
land management
local communities
women
Land tenure institutions in customary land areas of Sub-Saharan Africa have been evolving towards individualized ownership. Communal land tenure institutions aim to achieve and preserve the equitable distribution of land (and hence, income) among community members. Uncultivated forestland is owned by the community or village, and as long as forest land is available, forest clearance of forest is easily approved by the village chief.
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Women's land rights in the transition to individualized ownership

implications for tree resource management in Western Ghana

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 1998
Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Ghana
Land & Gender
land tenure
land tenure systems
natural resources management
women
property rights
Based on a survey of 60 villages in Western Ghana, where cocoa is the dominant crop, this study explores evolutionary changes in land tenure institutions on women's land rights and the efficiency of tree resource management....With increasing population pressure, customary land tenure institutions in Western Ghana have evolved toward individualized systems in order to provide appropriate incentives to invest in tree planting and management. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, individualization of land rights has strengthened women’s rights to land.
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Land tenure and farm management efficiency

the case of paddy and cinnamon production in customary land areas of Sumatra

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 1998
South-Eastern Asia, Asia, Indonesia
Land & Gender
natural resources management
women
This study attempts to identify the impacts of land tenure institutions on the efficiency of farm management based on a case study of paddy rice and upland cinnamon production in the Kerinci Valley in West Sumatra, where most of Indonesia’s cinnamon is produced. The attractiveness of cinnamon as a commercial crop has implications for forest preservation. Kerinci Valley is an enclave surrounded by the Kerinci Seblat National Park, one of the largest parks in Sumatra.
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Land Law Subsystems? Urban Vietnam as a case study

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1998
Vietnam
Urban Tenure
legal empowerment
development agencies
land distribution
land reform
land policies
land law
urban areas
Throughout Vietnam's long histoty, the central elite and peripheraI farming communities have been legaIly and culturally divided. This dichotomy was never as complete as the famous injunction that "the emperor's writ stops at the village gate" infers. InitiaIly, during the period of French colonisation and more recently since the introduction of doi moi (renovation) economic reforrns, central authorities have attempted to unify land management with universaI normative law.
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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.
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Economic and financial aspects of leasing state forest land

Reports & Research
December, 1998
France, United States of America, Sweden, Peru, Indonesia, Bolivia, Canada, Guinea, Cameroon, Thailand, New Zealand, Nepal, Philippines, South Africa, Malaysia, Italy, Papua New Guinea, United Kingdom, Norway, Suriname, Africa
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
customary tenure
natural resources management
forestry
Indigenous Peoples
forest land
land tenure systems
indigenous people's tenure
The Government of South Africa has a major holding of forest land, with a total estate covering 892,000 ha of forest and associated land. Within the state's forest holding there is a wide diversity of forest and land types including: commercial plantations and other afforested land; indigenous forests; legally protected (indigenous) forest areas; and associated bare land. This land is partly owned by the state and partly held on behalf of local communities, some of whom also have existing rights to use the forest land for various purposes.
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Fao Expert Consultation on Policies for Animal Production and Natural Resource Management

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1998
Colombia, Brazil, Mexico
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
deforestation
farming systems
natural resources management
research
The purpose of the expert consulation was to review of current policies that affect the management of livestock and natural resources, focussing on sub-regions and different agro-ecological settings and the identification of policy trade-off. Presentations/resource papers were delivered from each of the five different sub-regions of the Latin American/Caribbean region (Amazon/Brazil; Andean countries/highlands; Central American countries and Mexico; Southern Cone; Caribbean).
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Non-thematic issue

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1998
Liberia, Benin, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Eswatini, Italy, Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
forestry
public ownership
environment
natural resources management
research
deforestation
forest land
land improvement
Most issues of Unasylva focus on a specific theme. The objective of this thematic orientation is to examine in depth a given aspect of forest and forestry development in order to highlight its significance and importance within our wider universe. The aim is not to serve as a primer or textbook on the chosen subject (this clearly would he impossible given the limited size of the journal) but rather to present a series of analyses on specific aspects that help to spark interest and awareness.