Analyzing the Connection between Customary Land Rights and Land Grabbing: A Case Study of Zambia
Since the global crises in the 2000s, many foreign and domestic actors have acquired large tracts of land for food and biofuel crop cultivation and other purposes in Africa, often leading to the displacement of the African people living on customary land.
Yuh Jin Bae
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RSFSR Land Code of 1922 as the first codified act in the history of Russian land legislation
The RSFSR Land Code of 1922 (LC), adopted as part of the comprehensive codification of Soviet law in the 1920s, is in the focus of this article. The Land Code is looked at as the first codified act that forms the branch of Soviet land law, defining its ...
Tatyana F. Yashchuk
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Socio-economic and environmental impacts of land acquisition for tourism development in Vietnam
Like in many countries around the world, Vietnam’s tourism development has been a driver for land acquisitions. In the process of land acquisition, according to the introduction of the 2013 Land Law, affected people in Vietnam have gained more ...
Mai T.T. Duong +2 more
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Cross-border acquisition of the ownership of agricultural lands and some topical issues of the Hungarian law [PDF]
While Serbia is working on a new EU-conform land law, the EU law concerning the cross-border acquisition of agricultural lands cannot be considered as a static phenomenon.
Ede Szilágyi János
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LEGAL ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE IN UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION [PDF]
In modern economic conditions, organic production is gaining global significance, partly addressing food security and contributing to the well-being of the population. Ukraine is in the top-20 of world leaders in the organic movement.
Iryna Ignatenko
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Adat in Indonesian Land Law: A Promise for the Future or a Dead End?
At present the contestation of the Indonesian state’s dispossessory policies regarding land and other natural resources is dominated by a discourse based on adat.
A. Bedner, Yance Arizona
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL MANDATE FOR SOCIAL WELFARE – SYSTEMIC DIFFERENCES AND LINKS BETWEEN PROPERTY, LAND RIGHTS AND HOUSING RIGHTS [PDF]
Our purpose in this article is to argue that, as far as the constitutional promotion and protection of social welfare is concerned, there are significant theoretical and systemic differences between property, land rights and housing rights.
AJ van der Walt, Sue-Mari Viljoen
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Land law reform in Kenya: Devolution, veto players, and the limits of an institutional fix
Much of the promise of the good governance agenda in African countries since the 1990s rested on reforms aimed at 'getting the institutions right', sometimes by creating regulatory agencies that would be above the fray of partisan politics.
Catherine Boone +7 more
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Ignored for long, private property was eventually consecrated by the financial constraints induced by the 1996 oil crisis. The state disengagement from the economic sphere led to a more and more accepted privatization, which became constitutionalized in ...
Ammar Belhimer
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Acquisition of the ownership of agricultural lands in Hungary, taking the EU's and other countries' law into consideration [PDF]
The present article concentrates on the acquisition of ownership (and in some respects: use) of agricultural and forestry lands, especially as to the cross-border aspects.
Szilágyi János E.
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