This Regional Act aims at the protection and improvement of agricultural lands in the Veneto Region, giving particular attention to abandoned agricultural lands. The objective is to prevent soil degradation, reducing forest fires and ensuring hydrogeological balance. To this end the Act sets up the Bank for Lands in Veneto, which contains the inventory of unoccupied agricultural lands in the regional territory which may be assigned for cultivation.

El presente Decreto Supremo tiene por objeto normar la transferencia del Catastro Rural del Organismo de Formalización de la Propiedad Informal (COFOPRI) al Ministerio de Agricultura y Riego (MINAGRI), y determinar los procedimientos y servicios de los Gobiernos Regionales en materia de Catastro Rural.

The present Act lays down provisions relating to the assessment of real property for the purpose of the imposition of real property taxes.

This Law sets a complete legal basis for the correct classification, use and implementation of all rights and obligations regarding the private and public property (movable property and real estate, natural assets, various types of land and other assets) and related rights and additional ownership conditions, definitions and responsibilities.Any natural or legal person may be an owner, and holder of other property rights: right to use; right to obtain financial gain; construction rights.This Law is divided into IV Chapters and 396 article, including various financial, administrative and tec

El objeto de esta Ley es promover el desarrollo rural sustentable del Estado de Sinaloa, mediante las siguientes bases: a) definir en el marco del Plan Nacional de Desarrollo y del Plan Estatal de Desarrollo las políticas para el desarrollo rural sustentable; b) establecer y delimitar la competencia del Estado y de los Municipios en materia de promoción del desarrollo rural sustentable; c) planear, ejecutar y evaluar de manera transversal programas y proyectos para el desarrollo rural sustentable; d) promover la concurrencia de los tres niveles de gobierno, instituciones, programas sectoria

This Decree rules in detail the proceedings of elimination of common properties of land created as a result of post-socialist land allocation procedure. The purpose of this Decree is the re-allocation of portions of land and the creation of usable land parcels. These proceedings, in general, requires new surveys, mapping, land valuation, correction of cadastral data and new real estate registration.

Implements: Act No. II of 1993 on land redistribution and land assignment commissions. (2015-03-11)

This issue brief first examines the causes of land-related conflict, then examines how the issues and opportunities change through the conflict cycle: before, during and after violent conflict. This approach gives less attention to staples of the post-conflict land literature such as restitution and dispute management, but provides a more robust understanding of the longer-term challenges that are typically addressed by development rather than relief agencies.
Release Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2013File:  Land Disputes and Land Conflict

Broad-based economic growth is essential to sustainable, long-term development. It creates opportunities for raising living standards, provides countries with the resources to expand access to basic services and enable citizens to chart their own prosperous futures. Despite incredible progress that has reduced poverty and improved livelihoods around the world, global economic growth since 2008 has slowed and in some cases regressed. Today, three quarters of the world’s poor don’t have a bank account and access to capital remains a significant barrier throughout the developing world.

Insecure land tenure and property rights for women can contribute to the spread of HIV and to a weakened ability to cope with the consequences of AIDS. Land is a critical asset for the rural poor, and in most countries, men hold the rights to and control over land. As a result, women are often economically dependent on men, do not have secure fallback positions, and, therefore, have very little bargaining power.
Release Date: Monday, May 20, 2013File:  Land Tenure, Property Rights, and HIV/AIDS

Participatory mapping workshop in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, September 13 -15, 2011. Photo credit: Tetra Tech / Gary Hunter and Anna Soave
This month, we are highlighting participatory approaches that make land tenure programming more inclusive, effective, and sustainable. USAID uses participatory approaches—approaches that engage local communities and beneficiaries in project design and management—in our efforts to secure and strengthen land tenure and property rights in projects around the world.

A new report from the World Bank suggests that Africa, which is home to half the world’s uncultivated land, can significantly reduce poverty, achieve rapid economic growth, and increase food security by improving land governance systems and strengthening land tenure and resource rights. “Land governance issues need to be front and center in Africa to maintain and better its surging growth and achieve its development promise,” says Frank Byamugisha, author of the report and lead land specialist in the World Bank’s Africa region.

IFPRI has just published a new paper that considers whether or not policy changes related to gender equality and women’s empowerment in Ethiopia are, or are not, mutually reinforcing. One set of changes involves certification of land use rights at the community level. See here for a discussion of USAID’s project supporting these efforts. Certification allows husbands and wives to be listed as joint holders of the rights (these rights are inheritable by the remaining spouse when the other spouse dies).