Sentences with phrase «rural land rights»

The story touches on everything: the booming economy, the widening gap between rich and poor, rural land rights, environmental concerns, wild west development, and political intrigue.

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From Cain onward, right relationship with God is also mirrored by a fruitful relationship with the land, for both rural and urban dwellers, and vice versa.

Thus, when visitors arrive from rural areas with very different rules of conduct and complain that they seem to have landed in a foreign country, they are, in a sense, absolutely right.

But while the challenges posed to rural communities in Honduras are great, so are the opportunities: in the last decade, the government has begun handing over land rights to some local and indigenous people, providing an excellent basis for efforts to create sustainable forest economies.

At the same time, the Greens also committed to drop the FIRB threshold from $ 244m to $ 5m for rural land and ruled out supporting the sale of agricultural land and water rights to wholly owned subsidiaries of foreign governments.

Although the land was privately owned, over much of it — the commons and the wastes of the manor — rural people maintained rights to farm, graze their animals, catch fish and collect firewood, bracken, gravel or turf.

In «Promised Land,» directed by Gus van Sant, Steve and his partner Sue (Frances McDormand) head to a rural Midwestern community to convince the townsfolk to sell their drilling rights to the powerful energy company that employs him.

Dignified, adequate infrastructure and services should be prioritized for rural areas and poor parts of urban areas; the parasitic exploitation of villages by cities should be eliminated through measures for maximum urban self - sufficiency and sustainability; public transportation, walking and bicycling needs to be prioritized over private motorized transportation; adequate shelter / housing with land rights should be a high priority for urban slums.

Short clips depict the strategies and tactics that rural women, Maathai and other activists used to protect critical public lands, fight for human rights and protest political corruption.

And then we take the remaining 172,000 acres and assign that a value of $ 1,500 an acre and we consider that to be either rural or swampland, and the $ 1,500 estimate is pretty much where the land has been going — rural land has been selling for around these last few years and when we net out the liabilities, we get an equity value of $ 4.4 billion, which is right around our $ 50 fair value estimate.

In my experimentation with the data, I found that it was virtually impossible to get results inconsistent with the NASA results — rural stations, urban stations, raw data, adjusted data — once you average data from a few dozen stations scattered around the world, everything settles right down to something that looks very much like the NASA land - temp.

Indigenous and rural communities in Indonesia are slowly reclaiming their ancestral rights to their land.

The document also states that climate - smart land use can contribute to improving rural livelihoods and strengthening the resilience of rural communities, while safeguarding the rights of indigenous peoples.

STUYVESANT (Columbia County)-- Taking another important step in its campaign to Save the Land That Matters Most, Scenic Hudson has purchased development rights on a 60 - acre farmland property in the Town of Stuyvesant, guaranteeing this land can continue contributing to the community's agriculture - based economy and rural characLand That Matters Most, Scenic Hudson has purchased development rights on a 60 - acre farmland property in the Town of Stuyvesant, guaranteeing this land can continue contributing to the community's agriculture - based economy and rural characland can continue contributing to the community's agriculture - based economy and rural character.

Land valuations, lending criteria, misrepresentation from business advisors, increasing cost of production, low commodity prices, over regulation, animal rights activists all these, and many more reasons are causing a tidal wave to crash down on the rural -LSB-...]

In recognition of the dividends of helping indigenous peoples and local communities in rural areas secure rights to their traditional lands, in October the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) announced the International Land and Forest Tenure Facility, a $ 100 million, fund for scaling up recognition of rights to collective lands and forights to their traditional lands, in October the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) announced the International Land and Forest Tenure Facility, a $ 100 million, fund for scaling up recognition of rights to collective lands and foRights and Resources Initiative (RRI) announced the International Land and Forest Tenure Facility, a $ 100 million, fund for scaling up recognition of rights to collective lands and forights to collective lands and forests.

Walton believes allowing landowners in the rural parts of Isabella County to lease land to build wind turbines is a matter of property rights.