Reversing the legacy of the 1913 Natives Land Act. The root of the land question today arises out of the pervasive process of land alienation that dispossessed the majority of South Africans of their land over the past few centuries. 2013 is the centenary f the 1913 Natives Land Act, which was the first of number of discriminatory laws that reinforced the massive dispossession of land from black South AFricans

To provide for the temporary protection of certain rights to and interests in land which are not otherwise adequately protected by law; and to provide for matters connected therewith

In the accelerating process of urbanization and social transition era, industrialization, urbanization and construction of urban-rural integration also inevitably leads to the land expropriation, land conflicts have become important issues in the development process.

As a country we need to prioritise the acquisition and development of land for settlement purposes if we are to make any impact on the demand for housing.  Between 1994 and 2014 the South African government provided more than 2.5 million houses and some 1.2 million serviced sites, but the housing backlog nevertheless increased over this same period from 1.5 million to 2.1 million units

Throughout 2017, Spatial Collective applied new technologies to the data capture element of land registration in order to test whether affordable tools for documentation of land exist, whether these tools can reach the accuracy standards required by the state, and whether communities can replicate the work of a professional surveyor. To do this, our research looked into the land demarcation process, determined whether new technologies were of quality and met national standards, and gauged the most cost-effective tools which are widely accessible to local c

Land transformation has been at the centre of the economic growth of post-colonial Asia. In the 1990s, many Asian countries embraced economic liberalization and speculative business interests in land began to replace the state’s control of land for developmental purposes. The growing demand for land by corporations and private investors has fuelled several regional land rush waves in Asia, bringing them directly in conflict with communities that require these lands for their occupations and survival.

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La preocupación por preservar la Amazonía remite a una doble problemática ambiental y geopolítica. Por una parte refleja la toma de conciencia, en el ámbito internacional, de los límites del desarrollo industrial, tanto entre las ONGs y la sociedad civil como entre los organismos multilaterales que conforman el sistema institucional internacional. Por otra parte, plantea el problema de la soberanía nacional de los países y la legitimidad de políticas que pueden ir en contra del interés general en el plano global.

Los corregimientos de La Boquilla, Punta Canoa y Arroyo de Piedra están conformados principalmente por comunidades afrocolombianas organizadas en la actualidad por Consejos Comunitarios rurales de comunidades negras, reconocidas por la alcaldía del distrito de Cartagena de Indias y por el Ministerio del Interior de Colombia.

Los mismos proyectos de desarrollo que se implementan con el objetivo de aliviar la pobreza, encuentran serios obstáculos al enfrentarse a una estructura agraria pulverizada. Esto es lo que sucede, por ejemplo, con los proyectos de riego en el contexto de comunidades altamente minifundizadas.

Este ensayo tiene como propósito principal dar a conocer la relevancia de la festividad del Muyu Raymi, una iniciativa de resiliencia agrícola. Para ello, en un primer momento, se hará una breve contextualización que permitirá entender la fiesta en el marco de una realidad climática, social y política particular. Luego, se describirá el Muyu Raymi enfocando tres ejes fundamentales: la agrobiodiversidad, las mujeres y la identidad. Este ensayo se nutre de conversaciones, opiniones y experiencias vividas en el marco del Muyu Raymi que se llevó acabo el 13 de agosto del 2016.