THE COMMUNITY LAND ACT No. 27 of 2016
Date of Assent: 3lst August,2016
Date of Commencement : 2 I st September, 201 6
Executive summary:
"In January 2016 the government adopted a National Land Use Policy, which included the recognition
of customary land management practices. While this is a welcome first step in the necessary
integration of Burma’s customary land management systems with the national-level system,
This report, which focuses on Kenya, constitutes one of four country-wide assessments produced under the overall project.
In the Mekong region, conflicts between local communities and large scale land concessions are widespread. They are often difficult to solve.
Maroba dos Teixeiras foi reconhecida como comunidade quilombola pela Fundação Palmares no 26 de janeiro de 2009. Comunidades quilombolas são aqueles grupos formados por sujeitos afrodescendentes que resistiram ao sistema escravista que perdurou dos séculos XVI a XIX no Brasil. Além do acesso à terra, as comunidades lutam por ter sua cultura respeitada, acesso à educação e saúde.
Encroaching on Land and Livelihoods examines whether national expropriation laws in 30 countries across Asia and Africa follow the international standards established in Section 16 of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGTs).
Land Core Group Shifting Cultivation Meeting
Yangon, Myanmar
A comunidade quilombola Guajará Mirim é formada por cinco povoados e conta com 140 famílias. Está localizada no município de Acará, região do Baixo Acará, nordeste do estado do Pará. A área da comunidade soma 1.024,1954 hectares titulados em 2002 pelo Instituto de Terras do Pará. O título foi dado em nome da Associação das Comunidades Remanescentes de Quilombos Filhos de Zumbi.
Key points:
This document highlights, in English and Burmese, some key chapters of the National Land Use Policy: Objectives...Grants and Leases of Land at the Disposal of Government...Procedures related to Land Acquisition, Relocation, Compensation, Rehabilitation and Restitution...Land Use Rights of the Ethnic Nationalities...Equal Rights of Men and Women...Harmonization of Laws and Enacting New Law...Mon
This research is conducted to contribute to the currently ongoing policy debate on the benefits of collective vis-à-vis individual land tenure rights. The paper attempts to explore the Mozambican community land delimitation (CLD) program based on a community-level survey conducted in mid-September 2014.
4. STDM-Online, the Social Tenure Domain Model on the Web - Paper