Land Use Rationalization Project

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The project objectives are to: (a) improve the government's information base, as a means of raising its effectiveness; and (b) provide a basis for strengthening the institutions responsible for land settlement and for natural resources management and protection. The components of the project include: (a) the creation of a complete multi-purpose rural cadastre for the Eastern Region and part of the Western Region (the Chaco) and related socio-economic data base, including a new geodetic grid implemented and financed by the Inter-American Geodetic Survey of the U.S. government; (b) the establishment of a Geographic Information System as the basis for an economic land use classification and its associated legal and policy studies; (c) a program of studies, including: (i) institutional analysis of the agricultural sector, and formulation of recommendations for change; (ii) analysis of the existing system of land titling, with recommendations for change based on the new cadastre; (iii) analysis of policy affecting land use practices, and recommendations for change; (iv) analysis of environmental legislation and regulations; and (v) analysis of and recommendations for the role of indigenous people in natural resources management.