BACKGROUND Improvements in the built environment and changes in land-use policy are promising approaches to increasing physical activity among a largely sedentary population. Opportunities for walking and cycling as part of daily life are important to increasing physical activity and improving health. Yet, local zoning codes and related land-use regulations have made it difficult to create vibr...

In this article, we argue that research on land reform in the nation of Zimbabwe has overlooked possibilities of integrating geospatial methods into analyses and, at the same time, geographers have not adequately developed techniques for this application. Scholars have generally been captured within the debate focused on the success or failure of the Zimbabwean land reform program, and have neg...

Land tenure security is important to agricultural development, especially in developing countries. Viet Nam’s land law has been significantly improved since its economic reform starting 1986, and made a great contribution the enhancement of farmers’ land-use rights. However, transition modern economy as emerging Nam, there remain challenges rights such limitation arable landholding ceiling, unn...

In reviewing the outcomes of 70 years of land reforms in Latin America, we arrive at the following ten lessons that give guidelines for future programs of access to land. Lesson 1: Latin American land reforms have generally been “incomplete” in that they have not provided beneficiaries with the prerequisites for competitiveness. As a consequence, they have had a poor record in solving the pover...