Book of the Month
Agricultural and Urban Areas: Biomes of the Earth
Richard Garratt

Fiery Japanese maples outshine local varieties [  Toronto Star  ] Thu, 23 Nov 2006 Partial shade is best for most varieties (so they're ideal for city gardens) but some will thrive in full sun, provided they get lots of moisture. Read More ...
Tiwi school tied to lease [  Special Broadcasting Service  ] Fri, 10 Nov 2006 This was because private investors would be needed to run the school, and they would only sign up if there was the security of land tenure provided by the Read More ...
From droughts to floods, Ethiopians struggle with an array of [  ReliefWeb (press release)  ] Mon, 20 Nov 2006 Compounding Ethiopias economic problems is the countrys system of land tenure by which the government owns the land and leases it to tenants. Read More ...
What will bring Maine's young people home [  MaineToday.com  ] Tue, 07 Nov 2006 The organization has full-time staff and lawyers and has designed and distributed a curriculum for teaching about clean technology, urban agriculture and energy Read More ...
Ghana takes African governance exam [  AND  ] Fri, 17 Nov 2006 Numerous local conflicts exist, often over land tenure differences and disputes over succession to chiefly titles, while the system of decentralized government Read More ...

Farmers Need Land Tenure to Feel Secure [  AllAfrica.com  ] Wed, 01 Nov 2006 FARMERS should be given land tenure for them to feel secure and confident to produce enough for the country, the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands Read More ...

Anarchist's Progress [  Ludwig von Mises Institute  ] Mon, 06 Nov 2006 point, hinting that the collisions between the Indians and the whites may have been largely due to a misunderstanding about the nature of land-tenure; that the Read More ...

Bay municipality gets set to streamline work [  The Herald Eastern Cape  ] Wed, 08 Nov 2006 fresh produce market, procurement, tourism, automotive, small business enterprises and community development, trade and investment, and urban agriculture. Read More ...

A Border Security Strategy for Bush and Calderón: Improve [  Heritage.org  ] Wed, 08 Nov 2006 Education must be improved in rural areas, while the countrys 80-year-old land tenure system should be phased out to let occupants farm more efficiently or Read More ...

Property rights and poverty alleviation [  Jamaica Observer  ] Sun, 19 Nov 2006 One of the main objectives of the programme was to 'clarify land tenure' for some 30,000 parcels of land in the parish of St Catherine. Read More ...

Don spells out agric woes [  ZNBC  ] Sat, 11 Nov 2006 Africa University day. He also said government should put in place a good land tenure policy which can improve land management. Read More ...

US grants Mali funds for airport, irrigation [  Business in Africa (subscription)  ] Tue, 14 Nov 2006 to finance a massive irrigation and modernisation programme in Mali's Alatona region designed to increase food production and improve land tenure security in Read More ...

Australia fishing in Fijis troubled sea [  The Guardian (Australia)  ] Wed, 08 Nov 2006 There are frequent disruptions to water supply to town and country communities and there are land tenure conflicts and squatter evictions. Read More ...

'An important introduction to Cuba's socialist revolution' [  The Militant  ] Sat, 18 Nov 2006 A brigadier general in the Revolutionary Armed Forces, in the early 1990s, he helped initiate the small-scale urban agriculture program that has since expanded Read More ...

FAO presents new approach to pasture ownership and management [  ReliefWeb (press release)  ] Mon, 27 Nov 2006 Dr. Liz Alden Wily, an international land tenure and natural resources management specialist and team leader of a recent mission to Bamyan province, presented Read More ...

Study examines prospects for urban farming in Providence [  WLNE-TV (ABC6)  ] Mon, 13 Nov 2006 businesses. The year-long study conducted by the Urban Agriculture Task Force examined the challenges of producing food in the city. Read More ...

Women still lack land rights in East Africa [  Daily Nation (subscription)  ] Thu, 16 Nov 2006 Since the existence of customary, religious and statutory arrangements is a critical, defining, feature of African land tenure, reforms must accommodate this Read More ...