Land registration and property rights in Iraq have deep historical foundations reaching back to the Hammurabic period. However, the current land registration system owes more to the 400-year Ottoman occupation of Iraq and the subsequent interval under the British mandate. Under these regimes, land policy was self-serving and designed to maintain and reinforce the existing political power. This was done through the allocation of land to influential individuals who supported the incumbent regime.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2005Iraq
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksFebruary, 2004Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
How do we measure the success of agrarian transformation? Land reform, in- terpreted in the transition context as privatization of land with the associated is- sues of land market development and the restructuring of traditional large farms, is only one facet of a multi-dimensional process of transition to a market-oriented agriculture. However important land reform is, success requires progress in all relevant dimensions.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2004India
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2004India
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2004China
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2005India
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2005India
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2005China
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Local sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities
Reports & ResearchDecember, 2004Papua New GuineaLocal and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practitioners themselves guiding the narrative. The Equator Initiative aims to fill that gap.
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