Realizing the VGGTs and SDGs: The role of data ecosystems, people-centered monitoring and impact evaluation in achieving global development goals

18 October 2018

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Access to Land & Tenure Security
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
indigenous land rights
indigenous lands
indigenous peoples
indigenous tenure
land governance
land rights
land tenure
land tenure systems
security of tenure (land)
sustainable development

In 2017, the fifth anniversary of the landmark Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGTs) highlighted successful integration of VGGT principles into national law and decision-making processes across several countries. The uptake of the Guidelines has steadily grown in the past five years, aided by the development of tools and resources and further supported by an umbrella programme at FAO that has carried these processes forward in 60 countries.

Organizations: 
Land Portal Foundation
Global Land Tool Network
International Land Coalition
Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
Overseas Development Institute
Land Alliance

What do land rights mean for women? Five insights from Brazil

17 October 2018
Authors: 
Mrs. Patricia Maria Queiroz Chaves
Latin America and the Caribbean
Brazil
Access to Land & Tenure Security
Land & Gender
agriculture
gender equity in access to land
rural development
sustainable development
urban areas
women

“Land for me is life.”
“It is everything, it is health, food security, and dignity.” 
“It is life, overcoming adversity, and land security.”
“[Land for me is…] achievement and sustainability.”
“It is our home, where we raise our children, and where we preserve our culture.” – What does land mean for you? (2015)

 

How do you turn a slum into a suburb? Perhaps data holds a key

17 October 2018
Authors: 
William Cobbett
Global
Access to Land & Tenure Security
Urban Tenure
development
land development (urbanization)
land investments
land tenure
land tenure systems
land use planning
security of tenure (land)
slums
urban areas
urban planning
urbanization

A revolution is underway. In Latin America, it has likely crested. In Southeast Asia and West Africa, it is moving apace. In East Africa, it is at its most intense.

It is brewing most remarkably not in storied national capitals and megacities, but in the medium sized, second-tier cities, less watched by governments and journalists. Cities that might double in size in 12-15 years, yet already under-resourced.

It is a demographic revolution: significant population growth which drives the epochal growth of city dwelling, as the world becomes ever more urban.

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South Africa

South Africa - Context and Land Governance

Despite the achievement of Constitutional democracy in 1994, 'the land question' is at the heart of South Africa's struggles to overcome the cumulative legacies of nearly 350 years of white minority rule. The emotive quality of land policies evokes painful legacies fuelled by disappointments with the official land reform programme ushered in by the new Constitution of 1996. There is broad agreement that land reform programmes have not fulfilled their aims to significantly redistribute land and productive agrarian capacity, strengthen land tenure for the majority, and settle the restitution claims of victims of land dispossession.

Learn more about the successes and challenges in South Africa.

Rwanda agriculture land governance
Rwanda

Rwanda - Context and Land Governance

Rwanda is a small country and landlocked. It covers an area of 26,338 km². In Rwanda, land is an important issue due to two different characteristics: first is that Rwanda is one of the most densely populated countries in the world (416 people per km2 – (NISR, 2012). Being an agricultural country, where over 85% of its working class citizens depend on agriculture, adds more pressure on land as the sole economic capital to the rural peasants.

Learn more about successes and challenges and find more detailed land governance data in Rwanda.

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indigenous peoples climate change
Land, Climate Change & Environment

Land, Climate Change & Environment recounted

Climate change can destabilize existing land and resource governance institutions and associated property rights across the spectrum of landscape types. Transformed climatic conditions, manifested in either rapid-onset or slow-onset ways, can change how land and natural resources are accessed and used as geographical shifts in resource productivity, resource scarcity, and therefore land use patterns occur.

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