STATUTORY RECOGNITION OF CUSTOMARY LAND RIGHTS IN AFRICA - 2011

An investigation into best practices for lawmaking and implementation

FAO Legislative Study 105. This study seeks to provide guidance on how best to recognize and protect the land rights of the rural poor. It is founded upon the notion that protecting and enforcing the land claims of rural Africans may be best done by passing laws that elevate existing customary land claims up into nations' formal legal frameworks and make customary land rights equal in weight and validity to documented land claims.

CREATING LEGAL SPACE FOR WATER USER ORGANIZATIONS - 2009

Transparency, governance and the law

FAO Legislative Study 100. This study zeroes in on the experience of a number of "transition" countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. It describes what legal solutions these countries have devised in answer to their specific problems and, based on these, it seeks to distil a number of key regulatory requirements. It serves as a design/drafting manual for policymakers and for drafters of legislation on water users organizations.

GENDER AND LAW - 2007

Women’s rights in agriculture

FAO Legislative Study 76. This study examines the legal status of women in three key areas: rights to land and other natural resources; rights of women agricultural workers; and rights concerning women’s agricultural self-employment activities, ranging from women’s status in rural cooperatives to their access to credit, training and extension services.

INTEGRATED COASTAL MANAGEMENT LAW - 2006

Establishing and strengthening national legal frameworks for integrated coastal management

FAO Legislative Study 93. This publication is intended to assist anyone involved in the development or implementation of a legal or institutional framework to promote integrated coastal management (ICM).

MODERN WATER RIGHTS - 2006

Theory and practice

FAO Legislative Study 92. This publication offers a fresh look at the theory and practice of modern water rights, from a comparative law angle. It sheds light on a number of key features of such rights, and contrasts these to traditional forms and kinds of water rights.

LEGISLATING FOR PROPERTY RIGHTS IN FISHERIES - 2004

FAO Legislative Study 83. This study examines the historical background to fishing rights, and the theoretical concepts and constructs employed in the analysis of property rights in fisheries. It contains a detailed study of the legislation of various countries in respect of fisheries rights and the extent of their property nature.

LAND AND WATER RIGHTS - 2004

The interface

FAO Legislative Study 84. This paper is concerned with the interface between land tenure rights and water rights.

LAW AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SINCE RIO - 2002

Legal Trends in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management

FAO Legislative Study 73. This book consists of 12 chapters, including on land, fisheries, forestry and water, which describe legislative developments during the period of 1992-2002.

THE LAND ENVIRONMENT - 1997

legal-institutional foundations for sustainable management of renewable natural resources in the Sahel region

A new approach based on the legal and anthropological study of different operating systems of the Niger Inland Delta (Mali) and their interactions allows to demonstrate the interweaving of basic soils (defined as a substrate holder of biotic) and environment (consisting of renewable resources as an issue of power relations). This interdisciplinary approach is based on a methodological approach taking into account three levels of observation: the village land, the province and the region.