Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Land mobility

As a rule we are only revising and re-arranging the existing AGROVOC terms and NOT adding new terms at this stage. But during the revision of existing terms, we ARE elevating some concepts from being non-descriptors to Descriptors in their own right. Land mobility is one such concept.

“Land mobility” is the movement of land parcels between farmers through sales or exchange. - (FAO Land Tenure Training Materials on Land Consolidation Pilot Projects)

This concept is gaining importance in the wake of urban-rural migration, expansion/encroachment of urban structures (roads and buildings) into rural areas, political promises and women asserting their property rights.

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