With a rising sea level, shifting rainfall patterns, coastal flooding, increased frequency of droughts and other natural disasters, climate change induces disruption of how land and natural resources are accessed and used. Subsequent displacements of population and livelihood changes are also drastic social consequences that challenge current tenure systems.
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The Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) assesses the status of land governance at Country level in a participatory process that draws systematically on local expertise and existing evidence. The LGAF is designed to help countries to involve all relevant stakeholder groups to participate in technical assessment to assess and rank countries.’ land governance status against global good practice using a common framework. In Tanzania the framework for landholding is regulated under a set of statutes that recognize grants of Rights of Occupancy (GRO) with Certificates of Title, in what are categorized as General and Reserved Lands.
Alongside these are Customary Rights of Occupancy (CRO) that may be granted or issued with Certificates of Customary Rights of Occupancy (CCRO) which relate mostly to the category of Village Land. The Land Act, Cap. 113 regulates the issuance of GRO while the Village Land Act Cap. 114 (VLA) regulates CRO and the issuance of CCRO, together these statutes are known as the Land Acts. While GROs are largely granted in the urban and formal sector, the CCRO are largely issued in rural areas. With regard to these occupancy arrangements this report makes certain overall finding that are summarily presented
The land cover legend of Senegal, consisting of 55 classes, was set up using the F.A.O. LCCS
methodology. The analysis was based on a set of corrected Landsat ETM images dated 2005. To
affine the interpretation, a set of aerial photos donated by USGS and the high resolution images
of Google Earth have been used. The mapping scale used for the Land Cover visual photointerpretation was 1:100.000. Senegalese full resolution Land Cover dataset consists of 23,922
polygons, covering an area of 19,659 thousands ha.
During the fieldworks carried out all across the country, 170 field forms have been compiled;
moreover, about 700 field extra observations (GPS coordinates, a photo and a short
description/code for each point) incremented the field work data which have been afterwards
hot-linked in an interactive database
Several indicators whitch include some aspect like land governance.
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