ResourcesPolicy

A presentation by Landesa staff about a nationwide survey of farming families in China, in which the researchers describe issues relating to documenting land rights, investments in land, an emerging land market, compulsory land takings, and corporate leasing and farming, and offer recommendations.

A review by a staff member of Landesa (then called the Rural Development Institute) of land legislation in Novgorod Oblast (region) in Russia, which includes a short profile of agricultural land reform in the region; discusses the Constitution of the Russian Federation and other federal legal enactments that give Novgorod oblast legal authority to act in the land area; and cites issues important in the process of land reform and land market development.