This Order establishes that protection area shall be established with a view of protection of unique nature complexes and ecosystems of the protected area against unfavourable anthropogenic impact, conservation of old-age forests and biological diversity. Forest plots within the boundaries of protection area shall not be expropriated from landowners, land tenants, and servitude holders.

The proposed draft partly amends Acts No. 591 and No. 932 with regard to the scope and further consultation of water plannings in certain environmentally protected areas such as watercourses. Fertilization may NOT occur in rural areas in a buffer zone of max. 10 meters from the limits of watercourses and lakes of a surface greater than 100 square meters. The specific changes and plannings shall be electronically registered with the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries.

La presente Resolución aprueba el Protocolo de Muestreo por Emergencia Ambiental, que tiene como objetivo estandarizar los procedimientos para la recolección de muestras de suelos en el marco de la declaratoria de emergencia ambiental, que permita identificar los sitios impactados y potencialmente contaminados, y como resultado de esta identificación proponer las medidas adicionales para reducir y controlar los riesgos e impacto al ambiente y a la salud derivados de la contaminación de los suelos.

"For millions of people living in the world’s poorest countries, access to land is a matter not of wealth, but of survival, identity and belonging. Most of the 1.4 billion people earning less than US$1.25 a day live in rural areas and depend largely on agriculture for their livelihoods, while an estimated 2.5 billion people are involved in full- or part-time smallholder agriculture.

In line with the conventional view that customary land rights impede agricultural development, the traditional tenure system in Nigeria has been perceived to obstruct the achievement of efficient development and agricultural transformation. This led to the Land Use Act (LUA) of 1978.

Food First Backgrounder, Spring 2014, Vol. 20, No. 1

Introduction: Land, Race and the Agrarian Crisis

The disastrous effects of widespread land grabbing and land concentration sweeping the globe do not affect all farmers equally. The degree of vulnerability to these threats is highest for smallholders, women and people of color—the ones who grow, harvest, process and prepare most of the world’s food.

This Regional Act sets out the legislative framework for promoting the economic and social development of mountain areas. To this end it promotes the creation of “mountain unions” which are composed of municipalities falling within mountain territories. These entities shall exercise the functions listed in article 3, which cover the following areas: land reclamation in mountain territories; management of waters resources; forest management; renewable sources of energy. The Regional Fund for Mountain Areas is set up for the attainment of the objectives pursued by this law.

This Regional Law regulates relations in the sphere of organization, protection and management of protected areas with a view of conservation of unique and typical natural ecosystems and objects, particular natural formations, objects of wild fauna and wild flora and genetic resources thereof, study of natural processes in the biosphere and control over change of its state, and also for ecological education.

This Regional Law establishes the modalities of conservation and protection of protected areas and defines the status thereof and the status of environmental protection institutions located on their territory, classifying protected areas as follows: (a) state nature reserves, including biosphere reserves; (b) national parks; (c) natural parks; (d) state nature reserves; (e) nature monuments; (f) ecologic-ethnic areas; (g) dendrological parks and botanical gardens; and (h) healthcare and health rehabilitation areas and spas.

28 May 2014

GRAIN | La Vía Campesina

For immediate release

La presente Ley regula el régimen de autonomías en base al artículo 271 de la Constitución Política del Estado y las bases de la organización territorial del Estado establecidos en su Parte Tercera, que dispone que Bolivia se constituye en un Estado Unitario Social de Derecho Plurinacional Comunitario, libre, independiente, soberano, democrático, intercultural, descentralizado y con autonomías, que garantiza la libre determinación de las naciones y pueblos indígena originario campesinos preservando la unidad del país.

These Regulations provide, for purposes of implementation of the give effect to Irelands Third Nitrates Action Programme, rules relative to good agricultural practice to protect waters against pollution from agricultural sources and prescribe measures for these purposes, including: periods when land application of fertilizers is prohibited; limits on the land application of fertilizers; storage requirements for livestock manure; and monitoring of the effectiveness of the measures in terms of agricultural practice and impact on water quality.