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Governing Land for Women and Men

Gender and Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and Other Natural Resources

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Global
VGGT
gender equity in access to land
land governance
The present paper is written as part of the overall Voluntary Guidelines consultation and development process and is a contribution to the subsequent preparation of the Gender Technical Guide. It contextualises and defines gender for the Voluntary Guidelines, discusses what governance of tenure means from a gender perspective and identifies and analyses key issues and themes. It then summarises recommendations relevant to gender before drawing some conclusions for the development process of the Voluntary Guidelines.
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Urban Agriculture for sustainable poverty alleviation and Food Security

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2008
Global
agriculture
environment
farmers
food security
natural resources management
The position paper provides an updated insight on the role that urban agriculture can play in pursuing the Millennium Development Goals and more specifically MDG 1 and 7, related to poverty reduction, food security, and environmental sustainability. It intends to raise awareness and inform decision makers and planners of the different aspects of urban agriculture, which entails a broad range of activities, related to the food production and distribution chain, within natural resources planning and use including urban and peri-urban forestry.
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FAO Land Tenure Journal 1/2011

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
Global
land
land tenure
property
A new issue of the FAO Land Tenure Journal is now published in both hardcopy and in electronic formats. The 1/2011 issue features five continents and subcontinents exploring common challenges including tenure governance, the legal recognition of customary tenures, land scarcity and redistributive reforms, and the increasing role of information technology in tenure systems. The Land Tenure Journal provides an open, impartial and practice-oriented global forum for promoting the latest knowledge in land tenure.
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References to women's land rights in international instruments and references to gender in the draft Voluntary Guidelines

Input to the on-line discussion "How can women's land rights be secured?" - January/February 2012

Manuals & Guidelines
February, 2012
Global
VGGT
land
land rights
property
women
This page is meant to provide a quick overview of major reference to women's land rights in existing international instruments, as well as paragraphs related to women - or more broadly gender - in the First Draft of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the context of National Food Security (VGs). The VGs are still under-negotiations under the auspices of the Committee of World Food Security, and are therefore still subject to change.
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Rural land market in Armenia

formation, peculiarities and development trends

Reports & Research
January, 2005
Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Armenia
agrarian reform
rural development
Armenia is geographically located in the South Caucasus and bordered by Georgia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The total length of its land boundaries is 1,026 km, including a 167-km border with Georgia, 268 km with Turkey, 556 km with Azerbaijan and 35 km with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The total area of Armenia is 29,800 km2, with a land area of 28,400 km2.
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Condition of rural land markets in Azerbaijan

Reports & Research
January, 2005
Central Asia, Azerbaijan, Eastern Europe
cadastres
rural development
agrarian reform
Azerbaijan Republic is in the Southern Caucasus, between longitudes 444 and 522 East and latitudes 388 and 422 North. Its territory is 86,400 square km. The country has a population of 8,000,000 and borders on the Russian Federation in the North (390 km), the Iran Islamic Republic in the South (765 km), Turkey in the South-west (13 km), Armenia in the West (1,007 km) and the Georgian Republic in the North-west (480 km). Azerbaijan is on the western coast of the Caspian Sea with a coastline of 713 km.
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Agricultural land market in Bulgaria

Reports & Research
January, 2005
Central Asia, Eastern Europe
cadastres
land policies
land rights
The land fragmentation in Bulgaria is a big problem after the land restitution. As a result of the implementation of the activities according to the Law on Ownership and use of agricultural land, land reallocation plans by Territories Belonging to Settlements (TBSs) were drawn up and came into force for the entire territory of the country. There were established about 10 million land properties, belonging to approximate 2 million owners, which means that the average area of a property is about 0,6 ha, including perennial plantations, meadows, and pastures.
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The state of cadastre, land market and real property development in Serbia and Montenegro

Reports & Research
January, 2005
Central Asia, Eastern Europe
cadastres
land rights
legal empowerment
The paper provides basic sharacteristics of Real Estate Cadastre as a unique record system of real estate and registration rights with overview regarding its implementation and ways of managing Land Cadastre and Land Books. The problems of unique record system have been emphasized due to its inclusive real estate date and registration of rights. In the paper there are also presented some other problems which has negative effects regarding the land reform process in Serbia.
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Land market development in the Czech Republic

Reports & Research
January, 2005
Central Asia, Eastern Europe
cadastres
rural development
Land market in the Czech Republic is monitored by Research Institute of Agricultural Economics on the sample of 24 districts (1/3 of the CR). Land prices depend on the area, culture and region of the plot. Sales of small plots (up to 1 ha) prevail. These plots are usually purchased for non-agricultural use and their prices are many times higher than prices of large plots (above 5 ha) which are usually bought for agricultural purpose. Land market is not well developed, only 0.2 - 0.4 % of monitored area are sold each year. But in the last years it is increasing.
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SOME REASONS THAT INFLUENCE AGRARIAN LAND MARKET

The case of Slovakia

Reports & Research
January, 2005
Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Slovakia
land
property
Situation and structure of land relations is in each state result of long-term development of society. Structure of agricultural land ownership in Slovakia is likewise as also in other EU states different from structure of agricultural land use. In administration of the Slovak Land Fund it is still at present (2005) app. 25% of agricultural land. The agricultural land market is marked with previous period and it is up to now poor developed. The reasons are economic as well as legal one.