Sentences with phrase «ownership of agricultural land»

After the prime minister's comments, Fitzgibbon ruled out a change to the rules governing the FIRB but committed to a National Register of Foreign Ownership of Agricultural Land from 1 July 2014, «commencing with a comprehensive stocktake of existing overseas ownership».

Not exact matches

Development efforts began in countries with an agricultural system characterized by the concentration of land ownership in the hands of the very few.

By comparison with Britain, America was late in industrializing, and its agricultural economy was based on widely distributed ownership of land.

Bob Katter introduced the Australian ownership bill this year to stop the sell off of agricultural land and his party has a policy for a 10 % tariff on imported goods.

The Coalition will also set up a register for rural land to keep track of foreign ownership in the agricultural sector.

In September, the government's agricultural reform institute, INCRA, produced a map of land ownership which shows that 2.3 per cent of the country's rural properties hold more than 50 per cent of its private land.

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

Going beyond the difficulties of determining land ownership and rights to resources, these include «extremely challenging governance conditions in many tropical forest countries, complex land - use pressures due to scarce agricultural land and unclear land tenure situations, very high profits from alternative land - uses such as destructive logging or conversion for cash crops,» says Ebeling.

Our team of farming lawyers advise on all aspects of farming businesses, including rural land ownership, to provide specialist agricultural advice on farming law.

Asset ownership is one measure of economic empowerment, and can convey substantial agency as a wealth store, especially for large productive assets, such as agricultural land or home ownership.

The World Bank acknowledges customary title as a means of facilitating econ omic development and recently noted that «subject to minimum conditions, [customary title] is generally more effective than premature attempts at establish ing formalised structures».38 It should be noted that agricultural use of land is a key element of the value of land in the World Bank analysis, whereas this is not necessarily the case for remote land held under Indigenous communal ownership.

Every owner of a private agricultural land holding must lodge a notification of ownership with the Commission in the prescribed form within 12 months of the commencement of the Act, if enacted in its present form (Commencement).

Every person who acquires ownership of a private agricultural land holding after the Commencement must lodge a notification with the Commission within 90 days of the acquisition.

The Commission is to establish a register of public and private agricultural land ownership.

A foreign person wishing to dispose of an agricultural land holding must offer it to the Minister who will have a right of first refusal to acquire ownership of such land.

The Bill, if enacted in its present form, will have far reaching consequences on the agricultural sector, affecting all owners of agricultural land and in particular, foreign nationals and owners of agricultural land holdings determined to be in excess of «ceilings» for land ownership, which excess will be available for redistribution, with or without expropriation.

Major property type categories include Residential, Land, Commercial, Industrial, Public, Recreational, Agricultural, Special Purpose and Ownership Forms, each of which has a number of subset options (see drop - down boxes).