ABSTRACTED FROM WEB INTRODUCTION AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In order to inform Myanmar’s first multi-stakeholder national dialogue workshop on land tenure and user rights (held November 24th & 25th, 2012), Forest Trend’s Senior Law & Policy Advisor Rob Oberndorf was asked to conduct an in-depth analysis of recently enacted land legislation in the country, and suggest ways in which the legal frameworks relating to rural land management could be improved. This report is the result of that research and analysis assignment.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2012Myanmar
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2009Vietnam
Đổi Mới, the name given to the economic reforms initiated in 1986 in Vietnam, has renewed the party-state’s ambitious scheme of industrialization and has intensified the process of urbanization in Vietnam. A large area of land has been converted for these purposes, with various effects on both the state and society. This article sheds light on how land conversion has resulted in farmers’ resistance and in what way and to what extent it has transformed their livelihoods in the transitional context of contemporary Vietnam.
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Evidence from Ethiopia
Reports & ResearchApril, 2009EthiopiaWhile early attempts at land titling in Africa were often unsuccessful, the need to secure land rights has kindled renewed interest, in view of increased demand for land, a range of individual and communal rights available under new laws, and reduced costs from combining information technology with participatory methods. We used a difference-in-difference approach to assess the effects of a low-cost land registration program in Ethiopia, which covered some 20 million plots over five years, on investment.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJuly, 1988Thailand
This study assesses the economic implications of land ownership security in rural Thailand. It uses data from this country to rigorously analyze several aspects of land ownership security. It provides both qualitative and quantiative information on the effects of ownership security. The study presents a conceptual model and literature review and is followed by separate discussions on the evolution of land rights in Thailand; the study methodology and the nature of the data; and the credit market.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2014Russia
In view of creating in 2015 the Europe Asia economic union (EAEU) and its possible future expansion, there are considered issues of correlation in national and collective food security under conditions of countries integration, as well as basic lines of ensuring such security. The models of agrarian policy in EU and EAEU are compared, stressing that the EAEU statute document envisages the agreed (coordinated), but not uniform agrarian policy. That is the principal difference from EU agrarian policy, which contains uniform economic rules.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2014Russia, China
Detailed comparative analysis of basic lines of agrarian transformations in China and Russia has been done, its results have been analysed. Not only conceptual differences of the agrarian policy in those countries are demonstrated, but also consequences of concrete political decisions for the development of the branch. The differences are stipulated mainly by two groups of factors. The first of them is the opposite approaches to transforming land relations and the entire system of agrarian relations.
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A guide to Legislation, Policy and Case Law
Reports & ResearchJune, 2017Global, Africa, South AfricaTwenty years after the end of apartheid farm dwellers remain some of the most vulnerable people in South Africa, with many still facing extreme tenure insecurity and lacking access to adequate housing and basic services.2 The approximately three million black South Africans (6% of the population) who live on privately owned farms in formerly white commercial farming areas are among the poorest South Africans,3 whose vulnerability is exacerbated by their “socio-economic marginality and geographical isolation”.4
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsJune, 2016Bangladesh
These factsheets present the relevant policy and institutional contexts with respect to land governance and food security. They have been updated in July 2012 and 2015/2016.
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Library ResourceTraining Resources & ToolsJuly, 2017Global
Date : juillet 2017
Source : Foncier & Développement
Par : Philippe Lavigne-Delville (IRD / Pôle foncier)
Le thème de l’insécurité foncière est mis en avant depuis les années 1990 dans les débats de politique foncière, mais trop souvent sans définition claire de cette notion. Or il ne faut pas confondre sécurité et droits formalisés ou légalisés, ni sécurité et propriété privée.
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THE ROLE OF TRADITIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND LOCAL COUNCIL COURTS
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2011UgandaPost-conflict northern Uganda has witnessed an increase in disputes over land. This has, to a great extent, been as a result of the armed conflict and its aftermath. Beyond that, other chaotic factors embedded in various social, legal, economic, and political aspects of this society have influenced the nature, gravity, and dynamics of these disputes and the way in which Traditional Institutions and the Local Council Courts have attempted to resolve them.
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