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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    September, 2006
    Latin America and the Caribbean, Uruguay

    Este artículo aborda asuntos vinculados a la demanda, precio y extranjerización de la tierra en Uruguay. Ofrece información censal, datos sobre la evolución de la demanda y del precio de la tierra entre 1980 y 2005, e hipotesis que explican los procesos del mercado de tierras. El autor termina con una reflexiones en términos de estrategia de crecimiento y desarollo nacional y de la economía agraria. 

  2. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    October, 2006
    Georgia

    Introduction of geoinformation technologies for building up a modern land management system in Georgia goes back to mid-1990s. This has been stimulated by start of land reform resulting in privatization of over 3 million agricultural land plots in whole in the entire country. These new properties were to be properly surveyed, registered and recorded in a newly established cadastral system with the aim of launching free market transactions.

  3. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2006
    Burkina Faso

    Au Burkina Faso, les agricultrices, majoritaires parmi les femmes, doivent se contenter de sols souvent dégradés, de superficies réduites. Les retours de migrants les exposent à des expropriations qui compromettent leurs activités agricoles et menacent l’alimentation familiale. La solution pour s’en sortir : négocier.

  4. Library Resource
    mali country case study

    MALI – COUNTRY CASE STUDY

    Reports & Research
    October, 2006
    Mali

    Has 3 main chapters: modes of access to land and natural resources and the tenure situation of the poor and marginalized groups (customary rules, statutory law, development of commercial transactions); some ways of securing land rights for the poor and other vulnerable groups (local resource management agreements, formalization of collective rights and of land transactions, access to justice); can the necessary reforms be carried out?

  5. Library Resource
    Land Use Policy
    Journal Articles & Books
    October, 2006
    Nigeria

    Mounting exclusionary forces have made the task of achieving equity in urban land delivery more elusive than it has ever been. Statistics show that, in practice, most land for urban development (especially that occupied by the poor) is supplied outside state regulatory frameworks and there is overwhelming evidence of the importance of secure access to land and housing to the livelihood strategies of poor urban households.

  6. Library Resource
    Legal Coordinated Cadastres

    Theoretical Concepts and the Case of Singapore

    Conference Papers & Reports
    October, 2006
    Singapore

    The field of cadastre holds an inherent complexity much based on its interdisciplinary characteristics and the national uniqueness of each cadastral system. In addition, some cadastral terminology is vague or ambiguous, which is why omission of the explicit sense and context of a particular term may bring obscurity to international comparisons and analyses. The concept legal coordinated cadastre (and kindred expressions), occasionally mentioned in connection with visions and plans of cadastral modernisation, is discussed here in order to clarify possible meanings and implications.

  7. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    September, 2006
    South-Eastern Asia, Thailand

    The objective of this research was to assess the multiple effects of land-use change in a high populated steepland environment on land degradation processes and farmers' coping strategies. A case study was conducted at Pakha Sukcay village (located in Thailand's northern most Chiang Rai province). Erosion processes were monitored during a period of 3 years, and informal interviews were conducted to elucidate farmers' opinions.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    September, 2006

    65 pp. Maps included. Adopted September 18, 2006. Captured October 16, 2006.
    The state Unincorporated Communities Rule (OAR 660-022) requires counties to adopt landuse and zoning measures specific to unincorporated communities in order to ensure thatcumulative development in the communities will not:• Result in public health hazards or adverse environmental impacts that violate state orfederal water quality regulations, or• Exceed the carrying capacity of the soil or of existing water supply resources and sewerservices.[From the Plan]

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