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Two FAO land initiatives
Author: various, Capetown	Date Written: 30 October 2009
Primary Category: Africa General	Document Origin: AllAfrica.com
Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://allafrica.com/
Key Words: FAO, land initiatives, food security,
Summary & Comment: The Food and Agriculture Organization has begun technical consultations on international guidelines to ensure that tenure to land and other natural resources such as water, fish stocks, and forests are properly governed. A separate initiative will address the problem of foreign companies and governments buying and leasing land in African countries . . .

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