degradation, including integration of land management measures with population policy

Thereafter, tensions between British officials and colonists over western land policy diminished.

Are these factors taken into consideration when land use policy is decided?

Poverty and land degradation characteristics may vary from location to location and according to land and livelihood management and policy.

In the context of land degradation, a much greater integration between population policy, agriculture and land resource management is needed.

All these factors must be incorporated into housing and land use planning policy.

It is the government policy to help Namibians to have access to land tenure.

A much greater integration between population policy, agriculture and land resource management is needed.

It may be necessary to establish high level advisory committees on land degradation control policy

In this same context, Israel has continued its policy of confiscating Palestinian land to build settlements.

The policy of annexation and confiscation of land has affected the socio economic situation in the occupied territories.

52. The Working Group noted that a change in migrant labour policy was envisaged and that land reforms based on a free market policy were also under discussion.

Only producing bio fuels without the use of additional land is justifiable in terms of environmental and social policy.

A clearly defined land tenure policy is an important prerequisite for a successful cooperative management programme (Ngaido Kirk, 2001).

Specific policy measures should guarantee access by the marginalized to assets and opportunities particularly to education, land, capital and technology.

In the above context, Botswana's National Settlement Policy does not give power to any particular ethnic group to allocate land.

Integrating the NAP into macroeconomic policy is an essential element in enhancing the effectiveness of programmes to combat land degradation.

39. Institutional structures to combat land degradation may be grouped into institutions responsible for strategy and policy, research and implementation.

Indigenous women are seeking inclusion in decision making and policy making as well as the right to access and control land.

(i) Defining the roles and responsibilities of central government and local authorities within the framework of a land use planning policy

(i) defining the roles and responsibilities of central government and local authorities within the framework of a land use planning policy

Land? Selling land?

The Special Rapporteur recommended that a moratorium on all forced evictions be imposed until a national housing and land policy is in place.

(c) Research into the underlying causes of degradation, as well as the integration of land resource management with wider aspects of population policy.

In most developed countries, land use planning is an important part of social policy, ensuring that land is used efficiently for the benefit of the wider economy and population, as well as to protect the environment.

Agricultural land and pastoral land

agricultural land and pastoral land

Grassland to forested land Cropland to forested land Wetland to forested land Settlement to forested land.

The report indicates that the Government is concerned about the need for a comprehensive programme of land reform and that the Comprehensive Land Policy will create an enabling environment for women who are the head of the family to have access to land for housing and agriculture (para.

Today, foreign policy is like being on the open seas, with no rules beyond countries 200 mile maritime borders, and no land in sight.

After all, territory including land, oceans, air space, rivers, and seabeds is central to a country s identity, and shapes its security and foreign policy.

Three systems of land tenure obtain namely, tribal land (73 ), state land (23 ), and freehold land (4 ).

Land tenure and access to land

Land use (percent of total land) ____________

Even while trade expands, China is attempting to confine India within greatly foreshortened land and sea borders through its so called string of pearls policy.

Like all other citizens, Basarwa living throughout Botswana, whose number is estimated at about 60 000, are entitled to land in accordance with this policy.

Such strategies should integrate energy policy with land use, urban planning, eco housing projects and viable transportation options to encourage the use of public transportation.

Appropriate agricultural policy incentives can help to ensure sufficient input of resources in marginal regions to allow sustainable agricultural practices, rather than continuing land degradation.

Country Parties may consider it beneficial to adopt appropriate policy and regulatory measures to safeguard sustainable land management and the sustainable use of natural resources.

127. Uruguay has established a Ministry of Housing, Land Planning and Environment in order to ensure adequate attention to policy and programming in these sectors.

A new land policy, therefore, is a major necessity for the new Government in order to address the socio economic imbalances confronting the rural population.

Land use, land use change and forestry

No not the land! Not the land!

Call them fiscal policy, credit policy, monetary policy, and inflation.

Without a clear land reform policy, we believe that the legacies of apartheid that the new Government will be inheriting, particularly with respect to the land issue, could, if not addressed, be a major cause of instability in the future.