Internet Resources
Land Tenure Resources on the Internet
Selected Internet sites related to land ownership, land rights, land access, and land use
- Cyburbia, Internet Resources for the Built Environment
http://cyburbia.ap.buffalo.edu/pairc/
- This site includes a large directory of Internet resources relevant to planning,
architecture, urbanism, growth and sprawl, and other topics related to the
built environment, as well as mailing lists, newsgroups, job listings, etc.
Although it is strongest in information about the U.S., it also includes a
significant amount of information about other countries.
- Eldis, the Gateway to Development Information
http://www.eldis.org/
- ELDIS is a very extensive site that provides descriptions of and links to
a variety of information sources, including online documents, organizations
and their websites, databases, library catalogs, bibliographies, email discussion
lists, research project information, map and newspaper collections, and job
listings. Land tenure is a highlighted issue.
- FAO Legal Office
http://www.fao.org/Legal/default.htm
- This site includes FAOLEX, a searchable database of treaties, laws and regulations
on food, agriculture and renewable natural resources world-wide, including
land legislation. The site also includes some legal papers on line, and citations
for other FAO legal studies available for purchase.
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- International Association for the Study of Common Property
http://www.indiana.edu/~iascp/
- "Virtual Library of Common Pool Resources" includes on-line articles, abstracts
and papers from IASCP conferences, and searchable bibliographies. The site
also provides information about upcoming conferences and other information
about the organization
- International Development Research Centre: Conflict over Natural Resources
http://www.idrc.ca/CONFLICT/
- The site explores the socioeconomic, cultural, and political factors that
contribute to conflict over natural resources. It also includes information
about specific projects supported by IDRC in this area, publications written
on the subject, and links to related sites
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- International Land Coalition ((formerly Popular Coalition to Eradicate
Hunger and Poverty)
http://www.landcoalition.org
- The International Land Coalition is a global alliance of intergovernmental,
governmental and civil-society organizations. The Coalition works together
with the rural poor to increase their secure access to natural resources,
especially land, and to enable them to participate directly in policy and
decision-making processes that affect their livelihoods at local, national,
regional and international levels.
- Land Policy Network
http://www.worldbank.org/landpolicy
- This World Bank site focuses on policy related to land tenure, land access,
land titling, and administration. This site contains information for researchers,
policy-makers, and practitioners, and includes many full text documents.
- Land Rights in Africa
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/landrights/
- Maintained by Oxfam GB, this site includes a resource bank of papers about
land tenure issues in Africa, as well as links to othere relevant internet
resources.
- LandNet Americas
http://www.landnetamericas.org/
- The focus of this website is property registration in Latin America. It
includes a bulletin board, document database, project database, discussion
forum, calendar of events, and links to other websites.
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- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
http://www.lincolninst.edu/main.html
- The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy focuses on land use and land taxation
in the US and abroad. Site includes newsletter and full text of some other
publications, as well as information about Institute activities and publications
available for purchase.
- Participatory Avenues: Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development
http://www.iapad.org/
- "Participatory Avenues aims at sharing significant progress in visualizing
people's spatial knowledge (cognitive maps) and in providing communities added
stake in tailoring and owning conservation and development initiatives."
- Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies
http://www.uwc.ac.za/plaas/
- This program at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, fosters
critical scholarship on land and agrarian issues and seeks to support processes
of social, political and economic transformation within South and Southern
Africa. Most of its many publications are available for purchase, not in electronic
format. PLAAS is also a co-sponsor of the Pan-African
Programme on Land and Resource Rights, which makes available papers from
the several conferences it has organized.
- Rural Development Institute
http://www.rdiland.org/
- RDI is a nonprofit organization of attorneys helping the rural poor in developing
countries obtain legal rights to land. RDI attorneys are experts in land law
and policy who work with governments of developing countries, foreign aid
agencies, and other partners to reform land law and consult on land policy.
Many of its publications are available on line.
- SD Dimensions: Land Tenure
http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV/IN1_en.htm
- The Land Tenure section of FAO's Sustainable Development Dimensions, this
site contains information about the Division's activities, including publications,
seminars, policy papers, etc.
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- System-Wide Initiative on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)
http://www.capri.cgiar.org/capri.htm
- CAPRi is an Inter-Center initiative of CGIAR (Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research). The site includes several on-line publications.
- World Census of Agriculture
http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/ECONOMIC/ESS/census/wcahome.htm
- This FAO site provides summarized statistical information on land use, size
and number of holdings, and, where available, tenure status for 60 countries
based on the 1990 World Census of Agriculture. Explanatory notes include a
citation for the data source, which can provide more detailed information.
Other Useful Links
Selected Internet sites that provide more general development
information
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