AGTER

1. Governance challenges in « la Démocratie en miettes »

2010-09-02T14:58:36Z

All along the book « la Démocratie en miettes », we can find a definition of governance, term that appears to be as well a concept than a analytical framework allowing to change our mind. Nevertheless, Pierre Calame does not reduce governance to one single definition. According to the author, fitting governance in history and a long term process is the first stake. From this point, some principles allow us to both understand better and implement a governance adapted to 21st century (...) - File. Selected documents on « Gobernance »

AGTER participates in consultation with civil society organizations from Europe, Middle East and Central Asia on the Voluntary Guidelines for Land and Natural Resource Tenure. Rome, July 2010. CIP, FAO.

Michel Merlet — 2010-08-29T08:27:47Z

Call-Voluntary guidelines The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations- FAO has initiated a process of discussion which should lead to the adoption of the Voluntary Guidelines for Land and Natural Resource Tenure. The attached text gives a quick overview of this process along with its objectives and structure. It is within this context that the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty has convened and hosted the regional meeting of Civil Society (...) - 2. News of the network and new articles

White Paper of the French Development Cooperation: Land Governance and Security of Tenure in Developing Countries

Samuel L'Orphelin — 2010-08-10T13:15:44Z

Bringing together experts, researchers and French Cooperation agents, the Technical Committee on “Land Tenure and Development” is an informal think tank. Since 1996, it has provided French International Cooperation support on strategies and activity supervision in the fi eld of land tenure in conjunction with numerous French and international actors. The Technical Committee on “Land Tenure and Development” initiated the website “www.foncier-developpement.org”. The White Paper was drafted under (...) - 1. Synthesis and Reference Papers.

33. CAMBODIA

Mathieu Perdriault — 2010-06-28T09:35:28Z

Direct foreign land investments projects on a large scale, and purchase of large concessions by Cambodian companies, in a highly insecure food context.

- Exemples de pays concernés par les achats ou locations de terres à grande échelle.

Securing land rights as a Global Public Good

Pierre Merlet — 2010-06-25T05:09:58Z

During the last 20 years, an increased concern about global issues has emerged. Some problems like global warming, financial instability or global conflicts have led to the development of global governance schemes in order to try to solve them. Recently, the phenomena of massive land acquisitions in developing countries by private investors or foreign states (usually called “land grab” in the press) have led to a new demand for the implementation of global governance mechanisms in relation (...) - 6. Prioritary think tank: appropriation and Concentration of Land and land grab Worldwide.

4. The different categories of goods

2010-05-11T15:46:41Z

The distinction between different types of goods offers a privileged field of application of the interpretative framework of governance in view of the evolution of today's society. The binary pattern according to which there would be from one side the public goods, and to the other the private or traders' goods, does not stand up to the analysis. By the yardstick of the trilogy put forward by the interpretative framework of the governance - " objectives, ethical criteria and work devices "-, (...) - File. Selected documents on « Gobernance »

Main transformations on the access rights to halieutic resources and the management of the fishing resources

Pauline Vuarin — 2010-05-06T16:15:50Z

This article gives an idea of the main transformations that took place in the last decades, concerning the access rights, the management of the resources and the running of the fishing. At the end of Second World War, the fishing sector showed a considerable growth. The industrial fish catches were intensifying as fishing techniques have been developed: big trawlers, sonar fish finders, more and more sophisticated fishing equipment. Worldwide fish catches has shown a regular growth since (...) - 2. Fishing Resources

3. The territory, foundation brick of governance in the 21st century.

2010-05-06T09:36:33Z

The active subsidiarity principle allowed us to understand in particular how different levels of governance communicate and cooperate with each other. Among these governing levels, the local territory represents the place where we can concretely identify both the acting individuals, the occurrence of the problems as well as their effect. Far from being an abstract and subsidiary environment, it is the typical place where relations between the actors involved and different ranks of (...) - File. Selected documents on « Gobernance »

BRESIL. Scenarios of the evolution of the forest in the state of Amazonas. Rent capture and land issues.

Michel Merlet — 2010-04-30T10:19:14Z

Over the last few years, the State of Amazonas has developed an original forest policy [1] based on small-scale sustainable management of forests, the creation of protected areas and a climate law. Below we discuss the possible evolutionary scenarios for the Amazonian forests at the state level and the challenges that the policy needs to address in the light of reference studies. Existing studies and estimates Nearly all studies are agreed that deforestation is not primarily the result of (...) - 3. Forests

SOUTH AFRICA (Eastern Cape Province, former Transkei)

Mathieu Perdriault — 2010-04-30T09:40:21Z

Conversion into a monoculture of rape on large shared pastoral territories and food gardens in order to produce agrofuels for the European market.

- Exemples de pays concernés par les achats ou locations de terres à grande échelle.