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Bulgaria: Expanding ProCredit’s Operations in Rural Areas

Reports & Research
December, 2004
Romania, France, North Macedonia, Switzerland, United States of America, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Europe
land tenure
The focus of this exercise was on issues connected with a possible substantial increase in the agricultural loan asset portfolio of ProCredit Bank. This summary outlines the type of client who could be targeted by the bank – the core borrowing group, the ways in which the bank could market its services to the desired core clientele, the type of loans for which a demand is clear, the enterprise types for which credit-financed investment appears to be most profitable, the regional considerations and, finally, the personnel requirements within the bank.
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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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FAO/ITTO Expert Consultation on Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management

Reports & Research
December, 2004
United States of America, Germany, Guatemala, Indonesia, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, Costa Rica, Finland, Cameroon, Cyprus, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Italy, Poland, India, Mexico, Brazil, Austria
Forest Tenure
forestry
natural resources management
sustainable development
The Expert Consultation on Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management (ECCI-2004) was organized by the Forest Management Bureau of the Philippines, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Tropical Timber Organization and convened in Cebu City, Philippines, from 2 to 4 March 2004. The Forest Management Bureau of the Philippines hosted the meeting.
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FOREST LEGISLATION IN EUROPE: HOW 23 COUNTRIES APPROACH THE OBLIGATION TO REFOREST, PUBLIC ACCESS AND USE OF NON-WOOD FOREST PRODUCTS

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2004
Slovenia, Liechtenstein, France, Estonia, Switzerland, Lithuania, Croatia, Sweden, Germany, Ukraine, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Austria, Finland, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Albania, Poland, Latvia, Romania, Norway, Czech Republic, Europe
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
deforestation
environment
land improvement
land rights
This report presents the results of an extra budgetary project which analyses similarities and common approaches in European national forest legislation. The forest laws of 23 countries have been examined in order to find out whether provisions are made to put into practice the following three legal issues: (1) reforestation obligations after logging through final cutting or loss of forest cover due to fire and natural calamities, (2) regulations concerning public access to forests and (3) public use of non-wood forest products occurring on forest land.
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Land and water – the rights interface

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2004
United States of America, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Australia, United Kingdom, Ghana, Iceland, Gabon, Pakistan, Kenya, Japan, South Africa, Hungary, Italy, Tanzania, Suriname, Kuwait, Uganda, Brazil, Canada
agricultural land management
land policies
land
land use
natural resources management
water management
land tenure
water rights
land rights
land management
land governance
land ownership
This publication explores various aspects of the interface between water rights and land tenure. It is intended to synthetize and assess current learning on this topic, to define salient issues and to propose fruitful approaches for further investigation.
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Law No. 354 “On the formation of real estate objects”.

Legislation
October, 2004
Moldova
cadastres
land registration
This Law determines the procedure for the formation of real estate objects depending on their owner and intended use of the object of real estate. The scope of this Law shall be the formation of real estate as independent objects of law by separation of a part of the object, subdivision, consolidation, combining or re-distribution of objects registered in cadastre, and registration of the formed objects of real estate.
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Legal frameworks and access to common pool resources

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2004
Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Gambia, Mali, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Guinea, Niger, Cameroon, Mozambique, Laos, Philippines, South Africa, Uganda, Italy, Tanzania, Cambodia, India, Russia, Mexico
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
customary law
customary tenure
natural resources management
land governance
agricultural and rural legislation
land tenure
Indigenous Peoples
common lands
common property
land tenure systems
indigenous people's tenure
In recent years, local people and rural communities have assumed increasing prominence in strategies for natural resource management.This paper briefly reviews some of the central legal issues that are associated with this shift. In doing so, its goals are limited. It does not ad dress fundamental questions about when, where and what kind of management works, nor attempt to identify the political, social, economic and environmental ingredient s for success – subjects on which there is a huge, if still inconclusive, literature.
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Ministerial Decree No. 1094 validating the Regulation on the modalities of elaboration of the land use planning projects on the territories of protected areas, and territories of recreation and cultural heritage.

Regulations
August, 2004
Ukraine
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land-use planning
environment
protected areas
The present Regulation establishes the mechanism of elaboration of the land use planning projects on the territories of protected areas, and territories of recreation and cultural heritage. The aforesaid land use planning projects shall be elaborated in conformity with: 1) decision by rural administration, local self-government, regional, district of city administration authorized to make decisions as regards the allotment of the plots of land; 2) contract concluded between landowner, land tenant and the developers of the land use planning projects; 3) sentence of the court.
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Ministerial Decree No. 579 validating the Regulation on the documentation for the re-categorization of forest stock land.

ПРАВИТЕЛЬСТВО РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ ПОСТАНОВЛЕНИЕ от 25 октября 2004 г. N 579 ОБ УТВЕРЖДЕНИИ ПОЛОЖЕНИЯ О СОСТАВЕ И ПОРЯДКЕ ПОДГОТОВКИ ДОКУМЕНТАЦИИ О ПЕРЕВОДЕ ЗЕМЕЛЬ ЛЕСНОГО ФОНДА В ЗЕМЛИ ИНЫХ (ДРУГИХ) КАТЕГОРИЙ.

Regulations
October, 2004
Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia
Forest Tenure
forest land
public ownership
This Ministerial Decree establishes the documentation required for the re-categorization of forestland, and shall be applicable to public forests and public land.
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Regional Decree No. 379 validating the Regulation on regional state nature reserve “Chulpan”.

Regulations
August, 2004
Russia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
protected areas
This Regional Decree establishes that state nature reserve “Chulpan” shall be classified as cultivated land (landscape) protected area constituted for the purpose of conservation of cultivated land and land reclamation area as a reference model erosion-resistant ecologically balanced agriculture in water erosion zone.