Archive for the ‘Land use planning and tenure’ Category
February 17th, 2012
Vientiane Time, February 17, 2012
The capacity for commercial agriculture plantations to alleviate poverty in rural areas of Laos must increasingly be weighed against the potential impacts on ecosystem services, sustainability of land resources and traditional livelihoods.
The National Economic Research Institute (NERI) yesterday presented the results from a study on the economic valuation of ecosystem services for sustainable land use at a national policy workshop in Vientiane. The case study compared both the financial returns and the environmental costs of different land uses such as non-timber forest products collection, upland rice farming and maize and rubber plantations in Oudomxay province.
Posted in Agriculture and agribusiness, Land use planning and tenure, Rubber, bio-fuel and other commodities 
Tags: maize, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Ministry of Planning and Investment, MoNRE, National Assembly, NERI, Oudomxay, rubber 
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February 7th, 2012
Reuters, February 7, 2012
Premier Wen Jiabao said at the weekend that China’s government failed to give farmers enough protection from land confiscation for what many of them see as paltry compensation. The survey of 1,791 farmers overseen by the Landesa Rural Development Institute, based in Seattle, gave statistical flesh to the extent of complaints over losses of land to commercial development, an issue that triggered a dramatic ten-day confrontation in Wukan Village in Guangdong province last year.
December 12th, 2011
FAO and Transparency International, December 12, 2011
 Transparency and accountability help to ensure that land resources benefit everyone.
December 1st, 2011
A thematic issue of the Land Tenure Journal brings together theories and practices related to land tenure and climate change both from the mitigation and adaptation perspectives. Articles look at the implications that REDD+ and Payments for Environmental Services pose to land tenure and administration. In addition they propose approaches to deal with the new challenges and analyze the adaptation of local tenure systems and livelihoods to climate change. Land Tenure Journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access flagship journal of the Land Tenure Group within the Natural Resources Management and Environment Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The journal can be accessed here.
November 10th, 2011
 The LIWG Communal Land Titling workshop gathered together a variety of public, private and civil society organisations. Forest Carbon Asia, November 10, 2011
In recent landmark developments, Laos issued its first communal forest land titles on an NGO development project site. Mr. Chanthaviphone Inthavong of the National Land Management Authority laid out the background and government plans for land titling including communal titling, while local government agencies presented their experiences from the case study. Next steps?
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