Role of land administration in sustainable development : country case studies of India and Switzerland
Velpuri, Manohar & Daniel Steudler
Natural resources are many-fold, with land being the most abundant and precious resource for most societies. Less developed countries are attempting to catch up with more developed countries in terms of economic growth, which is very often linked with land development. It however is observed that this development is often intertwined with land grabbing of millions of hectares of agricultural land by richer corporations or even foreign governments. Controversial land deals could in the words of Jacques Diouf (Director-General Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, 2008) create a form of "Neo colonialism" with poorer states producing the food for the richer at the expense of their own food security. It can be argued that with the help of political decisions there is an upsurge of the economic pillar of sustainable development at the expense of the social pillar, i.e. the loss of social equity in land rights.
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