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Logging, Mining, And Agricultural Concessions Data Transparency: A Survey Of 14 Forested Countries

Reports & Research
February, 2017
Brazil
Cambodia
Canada
Colombia
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Indonesia
Liberia
Madagascar
Malaysia
Mexico
Myanmar
Papua New Guinea
Peru
Russia

Global demand for timber, agricultural commodities, and extractives is a significant driver of deforestation worldwide. Transparent land-concessions data for these large-scale commercial activities are essential to understand drivers of forest loss, monitor environmental impacts of ongoing activities, and ensure efficient and sustainable allocation of land.

Despacho n.º 3989/2017

Legislation & Policies
April, 2017
Portugal

A Lei n.º 62/2012, de 10 de dezembro, criou a bolsa nacional de terras para utilização agrícola, florestal ou silvopastoril, nos termos da qual a Direção -Geral de Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural (DGADR) exerce as funções de entidade gestora da referida bolsa. A Resolução do Conselho de Ministros n.º 24/2014, de 20 de março criou o grupo de acompanhamento da bolsa de terras, integrado, nomeadamente, por representantes das direções regionais de agricultura e pescas e das GeOp.

Original People

Reports & Research
November, 2007
Tanzania

The Hadzabe community of the Yaida Valley requested UCRT to assist them to undertake a cultural mapping exercise.

Decreto Supremo Nº 014/15/MINAGRI - Precisa disposiciones que regulan otorgamiento de tierras eriazas para pequeña agricultura y establece disposiciones complementarias para reuso de aguas residuales tratadas en tierras eriazas.

Regulations
Peru
Americas
South America

El presente Decreto Supremo tiene por objeto precisar disposiciones que regulan otorgamiento de tierras eriazas de dominio del Estado con aptitud agropecuaria para el desarrollo de pequeña agricultura, a fin de asegurar su correcta aplicación; así como establecer disposiciones complementarias que permitan el reuso de aguas residuales tratadas en tierras eriazas, que se otorguen al amparo del Reglamento en materia del otorgamiento de tierras eriazas de la Ley N° 26505, de la inversión privada en el desarrollo de las actividades económicas en las tierras del territorio nacional y de las comun

Country Investment Plan.

National Policies
Bangladesh
Asia
Southern Asia

The Country Investment Plan (Plan) is a roadmap towards investment in agriculture, food security and nutrition in Bangladesh. It is a five-year comprehensive plan with national coverage that aims to ensure sustainable food security which entered into force in 2011. The Plan provides a coherent set of 12 priority investment programmes to improve food security and nutrition in an integrated way divided into three components: 1) food availability, 2) food access, and 3) food utilization.

Política para la equidad de género en el Agro Hondureño, 1999-2015.

National Policies
Honduras
Americas
Central America

El presente documento tiene por objeto la Política para la equidad de género en el Agro Hondureño, de alcance nacional y relativa al período 1999-2015. Su objetivo general consiste en institucionalizar y operacionalizar un proceso que permita el fortalecimiento y la ampliación de oportunidades económicas, sociales, políticas y culturales en igualdad de condiciones a las mujeres rurales, a fin de reducir al año 2015 la brecha de género existente en el agro hondureño.

National Environmental Management Protected Areas Act, 2003 (No. 57 of 2003).

Legislation
South Africa
Southern Africa
Africa

The objectives of this Act are: (a) to provide, within the framework of national legislation, for the declaration and management of protected areas; (b) to provide for cooperative governance in the declaration and management of protected areas; (c) to effect a national system of protected areas in South Africa as part of a strategy to manage and conserve its biodiversity; (d) to provide for a representative network of protected areas on state land, private land and communal land; (e) to promote sustainable utilization of protected areas for the benefit of people, in a manner that would pres

Land and Marine Management Strategy for Grenada.

National Policies
Grenada
Americas
Caribbean

The Land and Marine Management Strategy for Grenada is a national strategy adopted by the Government of Grenada in 2011 to guide the management of the land and marine sector. The overall goal of the Strategy is to achieve integrated national development that is environmentally sustainable. The instrument seeks to develop a coherent framework with an appropriate set of strategies that will foster productive and optimal utilization of land, freshwater, coastal and marine resources in an environmental sustainable manner.