Issa Shivji is Professor of Law at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Executive Director of the Land Rights Research and Resources Institute (LARRRI) or Hakiardhi (in Swahili). He is an acknowledged authority on land law in Africa and chaired the 1991-2 Presidential Commission of Enquiry into Land Matters.

This paper examines the equity implications of the evolution of land rights from communal land tenure to individualization in customary land areas in Western Sumatra.

Le présent document présent le plan d’action de lutte contre la désertification de Madagascar.

Agricultural and Livestock Policy nine general objectives are: Assure basic food security for the nation, and to improve national standards of nutrition by increasing output, quality and availability of food commodities. Increase food crops production through productivity and livestock growth will be encouraged to private sector.

The National Agricultural Policy of Namibia is a multi-sectoral policy with the following objectives: achieve growth rates and stability in farm income, agricultural productivity and production levels that are higher than the population growth rate; ensure food security and improve nutritional status; create and sustain viable livelihood and employment opportunities in rural areas; improve the

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Conformément aux recommandations du Cadre Stratégique de Lutte Contre la Pauvreté (CSLP), la Mauritanie a élaboré la stratégie nationale de sécurité alimentaire aux horizons 2015 et vision 2030, à travers une approche inclusive et participative.

Dans le cadre de relever les défis majeurs qui persistent en matière de développement du capital humain, de consolidation de la gouvernance, de la croissance ainsi que d’autres préoccupations transversales telles que la préservation de l’environnement et la promotion du genre, le Burkina Faso a élaboré le Programme d’Actions du Gouvernement pour l’Emergence et le Développement Durable (PAGEDD)

A vue de concilier les nécessités de réformes structurelles et de redressement de l’économie avec les objectifs d’accroissement des revenus des pauvres et de transferts aux plus démunis, le Gouvernement Burkinabè a élaboré le Cadre Stratégique de Lutte contre la Pauvreté (CSLP).

In response to the new strategy for management, conservation, and sustainable development of Belize’s forests, the Government has developed a new National Forest Policy in 2015.

The overall aim of the present Forest and Wildlife Policy is the conservation and sustainable development of forest and wildlife resources for the maintenance of environmental stability and continuous flow of optimum benefits from the socio-cultural and economic goods and services that the forest environment provides to the present and future generations whilst fulfilling Ghana’s commitments un