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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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Implementing Ordinance relating to the Introductory Law concerning the Federal Agricultural Soil Act (Cantonal Agricultural Soil Ordinance).

Vollzugsverordnung zum Einführungsgesetz zum Bundesgesetz über das bäuerliche Bodenrecht (Kantonale bäuerliche Bodenrechtsverordnung, kBäuBV).

Regulations
January, 2011
Europe, Western Europe, Switzerland
farmland
The present Ordinance implements the Introductory Law relating to the Federal Agricultural Soil Act of 23 October 1994. Article 1 establishes that the Agricultural and Environmental Office is entrusted with the enforcement of the afore-mentioned Law. The text consists of 7 articles divided into 3 Parts as follows: Organization and competences (I); Proceedings (II); Final provisions (III). Implements: Introductory Law relating to the Federal Agricultural Soil Act. (2010-06-09)
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Pagos por servicios ambientales: ¿qué papel ocupan en el desarrollo agrícola sostenible?

Journal Articles & Books
Regulations
January, 2011
Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Europe
commons
sustainable development
natural resources management
Recientemente, se ha renovado el interés en fomentar el desarrollo agrícola sostenible unido a una búsqueda de políticas e innovaciones institucionales que lo favorezcan. Los pagos por servicios ambientales (PSA) son un instrumento normativo relativamente nuevo y diseñado para incentivar la provisión de externalidades positivas para el medio ambiente. Este artículo pretende evaluar la experiencia y el potencial de los programas de PSA en apoyo del desarrollo agrícola sostenible.
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Tuning in to consumers: Tailoring African rice value chains to urban markets

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
Senegal
agriculture
farming systems
food security
land management
peri-urban agriculture
In response to the 2008 food crisis, Senegal developed an ambitious food self-sufficiency programme which aims to entirely cover national rice consumption needs with local rice by 2015, mainly through massive investments in existing and new rice perimeters in the Senegal River Valley (SRV). It has yet to be seen, however, how the projected rice production boom will reach urban markets, where the product is often unknown or misconstrued.
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Rural development in an urbanising world

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
Global
Urban Tenure
rural development
urbanization
land policies
rural development
urban areas
urban population
rural population
Rural development and urbanisation are often seen as competing, but in most cases are intimately linked. It is essential that policies re? ect and support the many positive links between rural and urban areas, enterprises and people. This in turn requires a better understanding of urbanisation processes and the role of small towns.
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International migration flows: key data and trends

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
Global
Land & Investments
land investments
rural development
rural population
development agencies
sustainable development
Migration is a huge phenomenon. The share of migrants in industrial countries’ populations doubled over the past three decades, and remittances ? ows to developing countries are larger than foreign investment or overseas aid. In many developing countries the percentage of the population working abroad and the percentage of Global Domestic Product (GDP) represented by remittances run into double digits.
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Zimbabwean migrants destabilise the north of South Africa

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
Zimbabwe
Land Conflicts
land conflicts
landlessness
local communities
rural population
sustainable development
The sheer number of refugees from Zimbabwe puts a heavy burden on the province of Limpopo in South Africa. These new arrivals strain the already weak structure of the local labour market. The result is frustration and bitterness for local people.
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The role of local migration in African development

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
Africa
rural development
sustainable development
rural population
Surveys over several years in the Kagera region of Tanzania have shown that migration has a positive impact on people's living standards, even for those who remain in agriculture. On the other hand, there is evidence of migrants ending up in unfavourable social environments and perhaps even that the traditional home communities are protecting their livelihood and survival by setting up subtle exit barriers, in the form of norms, preventing migration of their most productive members. So, should migration be encouraged at all costs?
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Rural migrant workers in China

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
China
rural development
rural population
urbanization
urban population
sustainable development
land governance
land policies
In today’s China, about 220 million rural migrant workers are on the move – this is more than two thirds of the US population – and their number is set to increase in the course of the country’s urbanisation process. At a rate of 47 percent, still below global average, and against the backdrop of a marked rural-urban divide, urbanisation is not only an effect of rapid economic development, but also forms part of the Chinese government’s economic development strategy.
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Population dynamics and rural development in Burkina Faso

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
Burkina Faso
Land Conflicts
rural development
rural population
land conflicts
land policies
land governance
Labour migration, primarily to Côte d’Ivoire, masked the high rate of natural population growth in Burkina Faso for many years. However, since a political crisis began in this neighbouring country in late 1999, many Burkinabe have returned home. This posed major challenges, especially for rural areas. In the south of the country, shrewd population policy and appropriate rural development programmes have been e? ective in meeting these challenges.