And the total amount of land under lease has declined by about a fifth.
Mr. Ramsden declined to say what he paid for his place, which he purchased in 2010 with a 70-year land-lease.
Between 1998 and 2000, a senseless war with neighbouring Eritrea cost a fortune and prised many of the strongest hands off hoes and on to rifles. (In Eritrea, the aftermath has been even bleaker: 2.3m people now need food aid, out of a population of only 3m.) Ethiopian peasants are also burdened with taxes on the land they lease from the state, and levies for clinics, schools and roads.
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They say the changes would affect their hunting and fishing rights, as well as their ability to lease land to non-Native tenants.
Even China is finally opening up to private agricultural investment, in part because new laws allow farmers to lease land, thus making possible economies of scale.
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The Maisin say they never signed away their land and that the lease is invalid, with inadequate signatures.
So, as a first step, they could simply put enough money down to buy or lease the land and explore.
Calling themselves the Royal Army of Sulu, the clan members said they were descendants of the Sultanate of Sulu in the southern Philippines, which ruled parts of northern Borneo for centuries, and demanded that the Malaysian government pay more money to lease their land.
And the threat of losing the lease on the land jeopardizes the investment.
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The investor therefore typically accesses the land on the basis of lease agreements.
The council plans to lease the the land from the Homes and Communities Agency, which owns it, for traveller site use.
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The Times insists it is paying full freight for its 99-year lease on the land and that the land has long been scheduled for condemnation by the state anyway.
The site is owned by UK Coal but the council expects to sign a lease on the land over the next few days - and says it will eventually buy it.
That scenario could play out across Manhattan under an unprecedented proposal by the city housing authority to lease out public housing land and allow developers to build market-rate apartment buildings intended for much wealthier residents on areas currently occupied by basketball courts, parking lots and outdoor plazas.
Her government did recently pass a law allowing business to lease modest plots of public land.
Most of the wine grapes are grown by families that lease about an acre of land from their local agricultural commune.
The only promise Mr. Hua extracted, verbally, was that the township would not take the land back for the duration of the lease.
Solar Wind Energy (which used to be called Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc.) is negotiating for a lease from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a 1, 700-acre parcel of flat, empty desert on the Mexican border, right next to an Air Force bombing range.
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By far the most ambitious of all the land deals in the past year was Daewoo Logistics' contract with the government of Madagascar to lease 1.3m hectares, almost half the country's arable land, to produce corn for Daewoo's home country, South Korea.
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The building will be built on land donated to the project on a peppercorn lease.
Pacific Rim also disputes the land ownership charge, claiming to own or lease all of the lands it is required to own in order to comply with Salvadoran mining laws.
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Between 2007 and 2009, a solar land rush in California and the desert Southwest resulted in scores of developers putting lease claims on more than a million acres of property controlled by the United States Bureau of Land Management.
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Foreigners wishing to buy property must find a local partner to formally own the land, and then sign a long-term lease with that partner.
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While some companies prefer to own their land and buildings, others would much prefer to lease and reduce their capital commitment, particularly in a country where traditional bank financing is generally unavailable.
Landgrabbing--building infrastructure, housing and factories without any compensation (there is no private land ownership, but the farmer has a lifelong lease)--is a major source of revolt as well, everywhere, due to China's very development.
Except for the mining lease, most approvals are in place and land deals have been locked in with stakeholders.
Unlike all other big fast-food chains, McDonald's owns or controls under a long-term lease the vast majority of its stores and land.
The opportunity to create the home came in 2002, when Mr. Hua heard about a piece of land zoned for industrial use available for a 30-year lease.
Purchasing a property is relatively straightforward, but nearly all of the land is owned by the government, and buyers will have a lease-hold only.
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