title: Law No. 86-844 relating to New Caledonia, 17 July 1986.
abstract: Among other things, this Law creates an Agency for Rural Development and Land Management in New Caledonia.  The Agency is authorized to acquire by private sale or pre-emption land suitable for farming, livestock, and forestry in order to manage it in a more valuable way and grant it back to individuals or groups or grant use rights over it.  If the land is granted to a local group, the group has the choice of holding it according to customary law.  The Agency may also give a lifetime indemnity to any agricultural worker over 55 years old  who stops using land situated in certain defined zones, or give persons using land in such zones a grant for relocation if they exchange that land for land outside these zones.
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004777:Environment; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D008542:Melanesia; D009510:New Caledonia; D010139:Pacific Islands; D012939:Social Planning; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014197:Trees
keywords: Agriculture--legal aspects; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Environment; Forests--legal aspects; Land Tenure--legal aspects; Legislation; Macroeconomic Factors; Melanesia; Natural Resources; New Caledonia; Oceania; Rural Development--legal aspects; Socioeconomic Factors