This paper was prepared as a Background Paper for Chapter 2 of the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s 2009 Rural Poverty Report. It begins by providing an overview discussion of the diversity of natural resources in developing countries, and rights of access, tenure and governance…
Land Tenure Working Paper 14: Growing land scarcity and concern about land-related conflicts and rising levels of rural impoverishment have brought land to the fore once more. The main difference with the recent past is the wide spectrum of actors who want to take part in the elaboration of the…
يشهد قطاع الثروة الحيوانية تحولاً سريعاً استجابة للتحولات التي تحدث في الاقتصاد العالمي وتغير توقعات المجتمع. فالمجتمع يتوقع من قطاع الثروة الحيوانية أن يوفر أغذية وأليافاً مأمونة ووفيرة لأعداد متزايدة من سكان الحضر، وأن يوفر سُبل العيش لأكثر من مليار شخص من المنتجين والتجار الفقراء، وكذلك السلع…
Increased development pressures on the marine environment and the potential for multiple use conflicts, arising as a result of the current expansion of offshore wind energy, fishing and aquaculture, dredging, mineral extraction, shipping, and the need to meet international and national…
This paper develops a disequilibriummodel of land prices in the Netherlands. It shows thatthe behaviour of traded quantities and prices of Dutchland have some resemblance with a disequilibrium landmarket model developed by Søgaard. An errorcorrection model based on Søgaard’s model…
In dit rapport wordt een zestal voor de agrarische sector relevante vrijstellingen in artikel 15, eerste lid van de Wet op belastingen van Rechtsverkeer (WBR) geëvalueerd. De vrijstellingen zorgen ervoor dat de aankoop van landbouwgrond onder bepaalde voorwaarden onbelast is met 6%…
Met instrumenten uit de nieuwe Wet ruimtelijke ordening kunnen weidevogelgebieden effectief beschermd gaan worden. Wel lijkt daarbij inzet nodig van de provincies, zo blijkt uit een juridische analyse van Alterra. Tot voor kort viel de juridische bescherming van het weidevogellandschap een…
This book describes interactions between policy makers and coialitions of private actors such as citizens, enterprises and researchers. Even though 'policy makers' are generally associated with formal government bodies, all of the above mentioned actors are in fact policy makers. This…
Land use/cover change (LUCC) is often the cumulative result of individual farmer's decisions. To understand and simulate LUCC as the result of local decisions, multi-agent systems models (MAS) have become a popular technique. However, the definition of agents is not often based on real data…
A negotiation support system (NSS) was developed to solve groundwater conflicts that arose during land-use management. It was set up in cooperation with the stakeholders involved to provide information on the impact of land use, e.g., agriculture, nature (forested areas), recreation, and urban…
The main reason for government intervention in land markets is market failure. Open space is a non-market output or externality of farmland and, although it might be important to people, there is no actual market for the good as such. The Netherlands and the Province of British Columbia in…