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Donor-driven land reform in Cambodia – Property rights, planning, and land value taxation

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Journal Articles & Books
december, 2010
Cambodia

This paper focuses on legal and economic instruments of the multi-donor-driven land reform in Cambodia with its overarching aim of achieving tenure security and reparation after the Khmer Rouge. Land tenure applies to state public/state private property and private property. The essential property form for public land management is state public property.

Land Policy for Socio-economic Development in Vietnam

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Reports & Research
december, 2010
Vietnam

FIRST PARAGRAPH OF OVERVIEW: This paper is part of a study “Policy Analysis for the Development of Land Policy for Socio- Economic Development.” Land policy relates to the institutional arrangements through which the Government of Vietnam defines which individuals and groups have access to rights in land and the circumstances that apply to gaining and retaining that access.

Land Tenure: A foundation for food security in Myanmar's uplands

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Reports & Research
december, 2010
Myanmar

Access to land for smallholder farmers is a critical foundation for food security in Myanmar's uplands. Land tenure guarantees seem to be eroding and access to land becoming more difficult in some upland areas. If this trend continues it may have negative impacts for food security and undermine environmental and economic sustainability.

Revitalizing Agriculture in Myanmar: Breaking Down Barriers, Building a Framework for Growth

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Reports & Research
december, 2010
Myanmar

ABSTRACTED FROM THE INTRODUCTION: This is a study of the rice economy in Myanmar. It seeks to identify barriers and bottlenecks that are hindering growth and depressing value in a sector that must play a central role in alleviating the extreme poverty that currently afflicts an expanding proportion of rural households.

Social Land Policy for Sustainable Rural Development in Cambodia

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Journal Articles & Books
december, 2010
Cambodia

On 1st of July 2009, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen signed the “Declaration of the Royal Government on Land Policy”. According to this document emphasis should be given to State reform, land law, and environmental law with their impacts on the use of non-renewable resources (land, water, and soil).

Simulating the effects of tax exemptions on fertiliser use in Benin by linking biophysical and economic models

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Journal Articles & Books
december, 2010
Benin
Western Africa

The sluggish increase in the area productivity of staple crops is a major factor causing increased dependence of African countries on food imports. The increased use of mineral fertiliser may dramatically improve the food balance of many countries and result in lower food prices, higher food supply and consumption, and improved food security and nutritional status.

Irrigation in the context of today's global food crisis

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Journal Articles & Books
december, 2010

During 2008 the world witnessed a global food crisis which caused social unrest in many countries and drove 75 million more people into poverty. The crisis resulted from sharply higher oil prices, increased bio-fuel production, dwindling grain stocks, market speculation, changing food consumption patterns in emerging economies, and changes in world trade agreements, among other factors.

NEW TENSION ON THE HORIZON BETWEEN THE FOOD AND BIOFUEL INDUSTRIES?

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Journal Articles & Books
december, 2010
Brazil
United States of America
China
South America
Europe

Az élelmiszerárak növekedése 2006–2008 között a világ egyes térségeiben zavargásokhoz és a politikai stabilitás megrendüléséhez vezetett. Különösen fejlődő országokban súlyos a helyzet, ahol a legszegényebb rétegek jövedelmük döntő hányadát élelmiszerekre költik.

Participatory Geographic Information Systems (P-GIS) for natural resource management and food security in Africa : ict4d article, August 2010

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Institutional & promotional materials
december, 2010
Senegal
Africa

Access to land is highly dependent on social status (ethnicity, social class) and family status (position in the household) of individuals. Women's access to land varies according to eco-geographical zones and as well, is dependent on their particular position and rank in the family household.

Stadslandbouw voorbeelden : Inspiratie door variatie

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Reports & Research
december, 2010

Een aantal steden in Nederland pioniert met het verbinden van stad en platteland, met het idee dat het verbinden van stad en platteland kan bijdragen aan een gezonde en leefbare stad. Iedere stad heeft hier haar eigen redenen voor, variërend van het bevorderen van een aantrekkelijke woonomgeving, duurzaamheid, sociale cohesie of gezondheid.

Gevolgen van het afschaffen van dierrechten

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Reports & Research
december, 2010

This report answers the questions expressed in a motion Polderman. This motion asks about the consequences of abolishing the existing pig and poultry rights (animal production rights). In this study, we first address the creation of these production rights in the framework of the mineral policy (or manure policy) and the significance of these rights.