In view of the 2012 United Nations Commission on the Status of Women’s thematic focus on rural women’s empowerment, the gender team at the Development Centre has launched an issues paper, “<a href="https://oecd.org/…
The Land Watch Asia campaign seeks to enhance access to and control of land through policy dialogue, capacity building, information sharing, and networking. Seven national campaign updates highlight the major interventions and achievements of the various campaigns from 2010 to 2011 in…
The Guidelines on the Tenure of Land Fisheries and Forests are a first step, but much more is needed to ensure people’s rights to land and natural resources - Joint statement of civil society organizations which have actively participated in the process of developing these Guidelines
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is an intergovernmental body and functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) mandated to promote gender equality and the advancement of women. The <a href="…
On 23rd of January the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development has launched a new position paper on large scale investment in land and its implication on development policies. Objective of the position paper is to reflect the recent dynamics. Currently the paper is…
[<a href="https://www.unwomen.org/2012/03/impasse-at-commission-on-status-of-women-deeply-regr… UN-Women</a>] During this 56th session of the Commission on the…
En los últimos años se extiende por Asia, Africa y América Latina la adquisición de enormes extensiones de tierras, llevada a cabo por grandes empresas –extranjeras y también de los países en lo que se adquieren las tierras, inversionistas institucionales
y especuladores e incluso estados…
Since 2008, the rush for land in developing countries has rapidly intensified but the sector remains largely unregulated and land deals are frequently agreed in secret between governments and investors. Such a lack of mechanisms or political will to ensure transparent, accountable, and equitable…
The structure of this review is as follows: the first section discusses how contract farming is defined for the purposes of this review and briefly describes the history and extent of contract farming globally. The second section details the main factors contributing to the increased incidence…
<h5>The new baseline report on ActionAid's Women's Land Rights Project highlights the need for indigenous women in Guatemala, Dalit women in India, and rural women affected by HIV and AIDS in Sierra Leone to gain actual realisation of their land rights. The report suggests that …
[...] In our understanding of the green economy, one thing is clear: rural women have already faced eviction or exclusion from land ‘grabbed’ for powerful green agendas that are not their own. This is because the current political/economic paradigm ensures that the interests of corporate actors…