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Reports & Research
December 2012
The land concession inventory is the result of a trilateral cooperation between the Lao government, Switzerland, and Germany. Representatives from the three partners jointly introduced the document published by MoNRE, the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), the Swiss Agency for…
Reports & Research
December 2012
This case study of a palm oil concession in Liberia highlights wider policy considerations regarding large-scale land acquisitions in the global South including the need for both formal mechanisms to ensure free, prior and informed consent; and rigorous environmental and social impact assessments…
Reports & Research
December 2012
Ce Cas d'étude d'une concession d'huile de palme au Libéria met en lumière des considérations politiques générales sur ce qui concerne les acquisitions de terres à grande échelle dans les pays du Sudnotamment la nécessité pour les mécanismes formels pour assurer le consentement libre, préalable et…
Reports & Research
December 2012
The biaban nucleus
Beyond the Iranian hinterlands resides the desert, in Persian, the biaban.The world encompassing the expanding biaban functions much like an atom. The central element is the desert itself, the feature to which every other component orbits in deference and carefully balanced…
Journal Articles & Books
December 2012
China’s land policy has been in the news frequently over the last few weeks, since the Chinese government announced it will reform its land policy in the wake of the Third Plenum last November.
For those who do not know the Chinese land system follows a brief introduction:
Essentially, China…
Reports & Research
December 2012
Dear friends,
Released today, the 2013 Forest Peoples Programme Annual Report, presents activities from all areas of our work over the last year, also marking our first year with Joji Cariño as Director.
In her opening message of the report Joji writes: "By putting on the lens of…
Reports & Research
December 2012
This report presents the results of a rapid desk-based review of academic and grey literature on land issues in Sierra Leone, with a particular focus on literature from 2002 onwards. The review explored land ownership and rights in both the Western Area and the other provinces and the concept of…
Journal Articles & Books
December 2012
Unequal access to natural resources, especially to land, is a major issue that lies at the heart of social movements throughout the world. Population growth, development models and intensive agriculture are transforming many regions into battlegrounds where conflicts are waged over natural resource…
December 2012
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Journal Articles & Books
December 2012
Benin covers a land area of 114,763 square kilometers and occupies a long stretch of land perpendicular to the coast of the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. It is bordered on the north by Burkina Faso and the Republic of Niger, on the east by the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and on the west by the…