The Bill aimed at overriding old ordinances that dated back to the 1950s and 60s. The main objective of the Bill is that of decentralisation, and has three main points: the establishment of "authorized planning authorities" (APA); the consolidation of Townships Board and the Namibia Planning Advisory Board (NAMPAB) into one Urban and Regional Planning Board; and long term spatial development frameworks by means of a structure plan at all levels: national, regional, and urban.

The project took place in Katima Mulilo and Rundu during 2007-11. The project consisted of 66 township extensions, and resulted in 18,500 plots developed in a period of 5 years. The project was funded by LUX Development, the cooperation agency from Luxemburg, which poured significant funds to make the project possible. One of the innovation aspects was to do the topographic and cadastral mapping in parallel with the layout and design. This was done by teams consisting of a town planner, a surveyor , and community facilitators selected by the inhabitants of the settlement in question.

The current paper derives from work conducted in the context of the Revision of the Mass Housing Development

Programme (MHDP) that the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development (MURD) commissioned to the Integrated

Land Management Institute (ILMI) at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST). The paper contains

only publicly-available information and was prepared for public dissemination of issues related to the work

undertaken for the Ministry in the context of this project. More information about this project can be found on

Land tenure in Namibia is regulated by a variety of Acts, some of which date back to as far as 1937, and some of which are

yet to be approved by Cabinet. This variety of Acts makes it difficult to evaluate the performance of land administration as a

whole, and the appropriateness of coercive instruments with regards to urban land tenure in particular. In this article we

evaluate how urban land tenure regularization practices are conducted in Namibia, and to compare new formal procedures,

In contrast to their sedentary image, farmers in Central and South Mali are surprisingly mobile. Many have settled in scattered farming hamlets where they are rapidly expanding the areas under agriculture. This study focuses on farmers’ mobility in relation to accessing land in two regions in Mali where farming conditions are very different regarding rainfall, population growth and opportunities for income generation. It is shown that differences in farming conditions in the two regions have shaped the different temporal and spatial dimensions of farmers’ mobility.

Door verschillen in ondernemers en omstandigheden, is grondgebruik, grondgebondenheid en grondproductie specifiek voor elke situatie.

Bij steeds meer beleid en wetgeving spelen regelingen een rol die betrekking hebben op individuele percelen. Voor de uitvoering en evaluatie van deze regelingen bestaat er daarom grote behoefte aan perceelsgebonden informatie. Om een efficiënte verzameling, opslag en verwerking van deze informatie mogelijk te maken speelt geografische vastlegging van de grenzen van percelen een belangrijke rol.

In het kader van de "Projectstudie Midden-Brabant" is een model ontwikkeld voor het maken van financiele prognoses in de landbouwstructuur. Deze ontwikkelingen worden gevolgd via het samenvoegen van veranderingen die worden gesimuleerd op individuele bedrijven. De veranderingen worden gesimuleerd op grond van uit het verleden geschatte gedragsveranderingen