What is the North American Program

North American Program

This page last updated: January 4, 2005

What Is The North American Program (NAP)

The North American Program

New funding is enabling the Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to study diverse land and natural resource problems in the United States, Canada, and northern Mexico. The North American Program will work with the poor, community organizations, and government agencies to analyze problems and try to find solutions.

The Land Tenure Center has long worked in developing countries on issues of resource tenure and institutional aspects of rural development. Security of land tenure directly relates to community well-being, resource sustainability, and well functioning markets. Since 1993, the Center has been organizing to address these issues in North America.

What does the North American Program do?

Works with:

grass roots activist groups
non-governmental organizations
universities and colleges
governmental agencies

Performs research to learn how access to land and natural resources affects:

social and cultural conflicts
control of land resources
sustainability of land resources and communities

Helps change occur by sharing information through:

educational events
publications

This Program addresses these critical issues:

Program Theme Areas

Social and cultural conflicts

Example: How will laws sponsored by the property rights movement affect people's access to land?

Sustainability of land resources and communities

Example: How are protection and development interests of forest-dependent communities intertwined with forest tenure and community well being?

Who controls land resources and how?

Example: What ways will be effective to help rural minority landowners seek recovery of lost land or expansion of secure tenure rights?

LTC

NAP

University of Wisconsin-Madison 1357 University Avenue, Room 210 Madison, WI 53715
E-Mail: ltc-nap@facstaff.wisc.edu Phone: 608-262-3658 Fax: 608-262-2141