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    Conference Papers & Reports
    March, 2016
    Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Brazil
    This article shows the case of the cerrado region where because of a lack of clear property rights the land market is completely immobilized.
     
    It started with the land occupation of Piauí's cerrado region and the creation of its land market in the seventies by the State Development Agency (CONDEPI), which sold with symbolic prices very large properties for cattle and fruit production. The small landowners that occupied previously the region based on common rights were sometimes dispossessed.
     
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    Issues in Ownership of Real Estate Sri Lanka
    Reports & Research
    December, 2008
    Sri Lanka

    The report answers the following questions:


    1. Is perpetual fee simple ownership of real property permitted? If not, what are the principal forms of ownership, or other principal form of ownership, of real property?


    2. What instruments are used to convey fee simple ownership, or other principal form of ownership, of real estate?


    3. How in this jurisdiction is the ownership of real property recorded or searched? Who generally performs the search? 


  3. Library Resource
    The fragmented land use administration in Indonesia

    Analysing bureaucratic responsibilities influencing tropical rainforest transformation systems

    Peer-reviewed publication
    February, 2015
    Indonesia

    Tropical forests in Indonesia are subject to major transformation processes from native forests to other land uses, including rubber agroforestry as well as rubber and oil palm plantation systems. Using content analysis of policy documents, this paper aims at (i) analysing the formal administrative responsibilities related to the four rainforest transformation systems and (ii) based on the informal motives of the competing bureaucracies involved generating hypotheses on their future course of action and related research.

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     Droits de propriété foncière des communautés locales et populations autochtones en République du Congo

    Instruments de droit international et législation nationale applicables en République du Congo

    Reports & Research
    July, 2020
    Congo

    Ce rapport présente et analyse les dispositions internationales et nationales encadrant les droits de propriété foncière des communautés locales et populations autochtones en République du Congo.

    Il s'agit d'un document à but éducatif visant à améliorer l'accès et la compréhension des lois congolaises.

  5. Library Resource
    Líderes y Lideresas indígenas en la Amazonía Peruana Cover

    Líderes y Lideresas indígenas en la Amazonía Peruana

    Reports & Research
    May, 2018
    Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Peru

    The native communities of San Martín and its representative organizations face innumerable challenges in relation to their lands and territory, environment, governance, identity, justice and physical integrity, among others. For many years the land titling process was stagnant due to lack of funding, but today, with the presence of several projects that have considerable sums destined to the degree, the natives are be prepared and trained in this subject, as well as in the multiplicity of issues that challenges them.

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    Factsheet Peru GP Land Policy Deutsch

    ProTierras Comunales

    Institutional & promotional materials
    May, 2018
    Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Peru

    Das Factsheet stellt Kontext, Ansatz und Projektdetails des Globalen Programms für verantwortungsbewusste Landpolitik in Peru (ProTierras Communales) vor. 

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    February, 2020
    Vietnam

    This paper deepens the economic analysis of the effects of land consolidation – reduction of land fragmentation. It does this in the context of rural Vietnam, studying whether land consolidation promotes or hinders the Vietnamese government's policy objectives of encouraging agricultural mechanization and stimulating the off-farm rural economy. The analysis views land consolidation as a form of technical change, making it possible to apply the rich insights developed in the economic literature on that subject.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2018
    Thailand

    There has been a trend to encourage organic agriculture in response to improve global food security. This article investigated how organic agriculture contributed to food security of small land holders experiencing organic agriculture. It involved in-depth interview, focus group, and participatory observation from a purposive sample of thirty participants at San Sai and Muang Wa Villages, Luang Neua Sub-District, Doi Sa Ket District, Chiang Mai Province, the north of Thailand.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2018
    Myanmar

    In light of the urgency of both forest conservation and the recognition of indigenous communities’ rights to land and resources, along with the documented potential for creating conservation synergies through recognition of community rights, this study tries to look at the approaches to forest conservation taken in Myanmar so far, and to take stock of their achievements and impact with respect to both forest conservation and the rights and wellbeing of communities.

  10. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2018
    Thailand

    Land use decision making is influenced by various factors including tenure security, natural disasters and farm characteristics. Smallholder farmers operate under different land tenure systems, which influences their crop combinations. This paper investigates smallholder farmers’ crop combinations under different land tenure systems in Thailand in the context of the 2011 flood and government policy on rice.

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