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Gender and land compendium of country studies

Journal Articles & Books
July 2018
Dominica
Burkina Faso
Honduras
Belgium
Uzbekistan
South Africa
Lesotho
Uganda
Spain
Zimbabwe
Denmark
Germany
Tanzania
Zambia
Netherlands
Nicaragua
Senegal
Italy
Brazil
Switzerland
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
property rights
customary law
customary tenure
land governance
Indigenous Peoples
land tenure
private ownership
land reform
land tenure systems
land ownership
indigenous people's tenure

From the outset, the development of agriculture has been strongly associated with women’s endeavour. In fact, women’s contribution to agriculture goes back to the origins of farming and the domestication of animals when the first human settlements were established more than 6 000 years ago.

Governmental Decree No. 810 “On the issues of allotment of land plots for subsoil management”.

Regulations
December 2017
Kyrgyzstan
farmland
land
public ownership
private ownership

This Governmental Decree establishes that land plots shall be allotted for provisional tenancy covering the period of subsoil management for the following purposes: (a) geological exploration of subsoil; and (b) mining and construction of the infrastructure for subsoil management.

Edit LandLibrary Resource Land Use without Any Right to the Land: An Explorative Empirical Study on How Often and Where Illegal Land Use Occurs in the Netherlands cover image

Illegal Land Use in the Netherlands: An Explorative Empirical Study on the Use of Municipal Land Without Any Right

Journal Articles & Books
Peer-reviewed publication
December 2017
Netherlands
land ownership
land use
private ownership
public ownership

Throughout the Netherlands, land owners (or their lessees) use adjacent public or private land without any right. There is, however, no scientific empirical data on how often and where land is illegally used.

Law No. XIII-801 “On purchase of agricultural land”.

Legislation
November 2017
Lithuania
land
public ownership
farming systems
compensation
farmland
private ownership
land ownership

The scope of this Law shall be to prevent speculation in agricultural land and preserve traditional forms of farming; to create conditions for the formation of rational land holdings and land consolidation; and to promote the rational use of agricultural land.

Land (Assessment of Just Compensation) Rules, 2017 (S.I. No. 283 of 2017).

Regulations
November 2017
Kenya
compensation
land
private ownership

These Rules of the National Land Commission implement provisions of the Land Registration Act in respect of the amount of compensation to be awarded for land acquired under the Act. It, among other things, sets out factors to be taken into consideration when assessing compensation. The Commission shall determine an award based on the market value of the land to be acquired.

Land Registration (Registration Units) Order, 2017 (S.I. No. 277 of 2017).

Regulations
November 2017
Kenya
land
public ownership
land registration
surveyors
cadastres
private ownership

This Order of the Cabinet Secretary implements provisions of the Land Registration Act in respect to the establishment and operation of land registration units as constituted under section 6 (l) of the Act. The Cabinet Secretary establishes registration units as set out in the First Schedule.

Land Regulations, 2017 (S.I. No. 280 of 2017).

Regulations
November 2017
Kenya
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land
public ownership
land-use planning
land subdivision
land registration
environment
surveyors
farmland
cadastres
private ownership
protected areas
leases

These Regulations implement provisions of the Land Act, 2012, with respect to a variety of matters including administration of public land and private land, conversion of freehold or leasehold tenure, compulsory acquisition, settlement programmes, easements and analogous rights, and evictions from unlawfully occupied public land.The National Land Commission shall keep and maintain a data base o

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