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Evaluation of indicators of cadastral assessment

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2013
Latvia

To justify the importance of the indicators affecting the cadastral value, surveys were carried out, by help of which opinions of different respondent groups were summarized. The interviewed respondent groups were real property specialists of municipalities and experts. The thematic blocks of the questions included in the questionnaires are designed with the aim to clarify the quality of the indicators of cadastral assessment models, as well as their significance.

To the question of land ownership

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2012
Belarus

In course of the research there were considered the problems of reformation of the land property in the Republic of Belarus. In course of the study there were proposed directions for increasing the efficiency of land use on the basis of modernization of property relations. Special role of the land in the structure of the public relationship were revealed. The correlation of the state and the private property for land in whole and the practical experience of the different countries were analyzed. The version of use of the land plot at right of the economical ownership or lease was offered.

Analysis of the current state of the land market in the Republic of Belarus

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2012
Belarus

In course of the research there were appraised the modern conditions of the land market in the conditions of the Republic of Belarus. The characteristic peculiarities of the land market were given. The experiences of execution of the land reforms were analyzed. The directions of state regulation of the land relationships were revealed. The deficiencies that prevent the dynamic development of the land market were revealed.

Access to Land and Poverty Reduction in Rural Zambia: Connecting the Policy Issues

Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2009
Zambia

Key Policy Message:- Despite having relatively low population densities, inadequate access to land is one of the major causes of rural poverty in Zambia.- The apparent paradox of inadequate access to land for many rural households in a country of low population density is partially reconciled when taking into account that economically viable arable land requires at least some degree of access to basic services, water, road infrastructure, and markets.

Creating a public tool to assess and promote transparency in global land deals: the experience of the Land Matrix

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013

The Beta version of the Land Matrix (Land Matrix 2012) was launched in April 2012 as a tool to promote public participation in building a constantly evolving database on large-scale land deals, and making the data visible and understandable. The aim of the Land Matrix partnership is to promote transparency and open data in decision-making over land and investment, as a step towards greater accountability. Since its launch, the Land Matrix has attracted a high degree of attention, and stirred some controversy.

Scientific bases of land use systems: science and practice

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2012
Belarus

In agricultural industry of the Republic of Belarus the problem of increasing the effectiveness of utilization of land resources appears one of the most actual. Annual alienation of agricultural lands and arable fields under housing construction and industrial buildings, roads and other economic object leads to implacable decline of agricultural areas. Absence of new lands, suitable for agricultural use, promotes increase of agricultural productivity by means of intensification of producing process.

Fiscal and trade distorting effects of capital gains tax on land sales - empirical evidence from agricultural land market in Finland

Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2009
Finland

Capital gains taxes are important sources of government income in particular in high tax Scandinavian countries. These taxes, nevertheless, likely distort the market and resource allocations through so called “lock-in” effect by discouraging trade transactions that would trigger the tax payments. When it comes to agricultural land, the lock-in effect implies that, along the structural development, the land ownership and active farming gradually deviate from each other and land tenancy increases.

Extended Abstract for Cross Cutting FieldsThe Nature of Land Resource Ownership and Perceptions on its Management among Farming Families of South East Nigeria

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2012
Nigeria

Land has a cultural value in Nigeria in that its ownership cements
the relationship of the owner with the community. But more
importantly, land resource is critical to the livelihood of rural
farmers because they depend on it for income and food supply.
It is therefore important that it is sustainably managed and
efficiently used. This study investigated the ownership pattern
of land among the farming families in the study area and the
attitude towards its management. It adopted the farming and

Conservation, green/blue grabbing and accumulation by dispossession in Tanzania

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2012
Tanzania

This article shows how wildlife and marine conservation in Tanzania lead to forms of ‘green’ or ‘blue grabbing’. Dispossession of local people's land and resources has been gradual and piecemeal in some cases, while it involved violence in other cases. It does not primarily take the usual form of privatization of land. The spaces involved are still formally state or village land.

Security of Widows’ Access to Land in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Panel Survey Evidence from Zambia

Reports & Research
December, 2006
Zambia

Beyond the obvious catastrophic effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on mortality, demographicchanges, and the suffering of individuals and their families, we are still only learning about thecomplex longer-term effects of the pandemic on poverty and vulnerability. For example, theHIV/AIDS pandemic has substantially increased the number of widow-headed households inAfrica. A huge number of conceptual and qualitative studies highlight gender inequalities inproperty rights, and the difficulties that widows and their dependents face in retaining access toland after the death of their husbands.

Land as main production factor on dairy farms in Poland

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2013
Poland
Latvia

This paper presents the issues of land resources on dairy farms of various scale of production. Using a dynamic scope, it analyses the shaping of parameters such as the area of own and rented land, share of rented land in the whole area of land, share of arable land, and the technical development of land factor in accordance with the number of dairy cows. Distinct dependencies between the shaping of parameters and the scale of production have been observed in the research. Data from the Polish FADN for the years 2004-2009 were used in the paper.