Land Law

• FAO Legal Office
  This site includes FAOLEX, a searchable database of treaties, laws and regulations on food, agriculture and renewable natural resources world-wide, including land legislation. The site also includes some legal papers on line, and citations for other FAO legal studies available for purchase.
  
  
• Institute for Liberty and Democracy
  The Instituto Libertad y Democracia (ILD), founded by de Soto, is a private, non-profit organization headquartered in Lima, Peru. It emphasizes the need for institutional reforms that give the poor access to formal property rights for their real estate holdings and businesses along with the tools to release the capital locked up in those assets.
  
  
• International Association for the Study of Common Property
  Virtual Library of Common Pool Resources' includes on-line articles, abstracts and papers from IASCP conferences, and searchable bibliographies. The site also provides information about upcoming conferences and other information about the organization.
  
  
• International Development Research Centre: Conflict over Natural Resources
  The site explores the socioeconomic, cultural, and political factors that contribute to conflict over natural resources. It also includes information about specific projects supported by IDRC in this area, publications written on the subject, and links to related sites.
  
  
• International Land Coalition
  This is a global consortium of civil society, intergovernmental and governmental organizations working to empower the rural poor through improved access to land and other productive resources. Its stated purpose is 'empowering the rural poor through land reform and improved access to productive assets.' Its former name was the Popular Coalition to Alleviate Hunger and Poverty. Its Secretariat is in Rome, hosted by IFAD.
  
  
• Land Rights in Africa
  Maintained by Oxfam GB, this site includes a resource bank of papers about land tenure issues in Africa, as well as links to othere relevant internet resources.
  
  
• LandNet Americas
  The focus of this website is property registration in Latin America. It includes a bulletin board, document database, project database, discussion forum, calendar of events, and links to other websites.
  
  
• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
  The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy focuses on land use and land taxation in the US and abroad. Site includes newsletter and full text of some other publications, as well as information about Institute activities and publications available for purchase.
  
  
• Rural Development Institute
  RDI is a nonprofit organization of attorneys helping the rural poor in developing countries obtain legal rights to land. RDI attorneys are experts in land law and policy who work with governments of developing countries, foreign aid agencies, and other partners to reform land law and consult on land policy. Many of its publications are available on line.
  
  
• Sustainable Development Dimensions: Land Tenure
  The Land Tenure section of FAO's Sustainable Development Dimensions, this site contains information about the Division's activities, including publications, seminars, policy papers.
  
  
• System-Wide Initiative on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)
  CAPRi is an Inter-Center initiative of CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research). The site includes several on-line publications.
  
  
• University of Wisconsin Land Tenure Center
  LTC is an interdisciplinary research center and its site has for many years been the 'gold standard' for information on land policy and land rights in the developing world. The links provided here have been largely culled from their longer list.