The preservation of suburban agricultural land in the face of rapid urbanization in the West African region has been a major problem in recent decades. This paper examines the land tenure strategies used by farmers in relation to their assessments of the impact of urban growth. It is based on individual surveys conducted among farmers and landowners on the outskirts of the city of Lomé in Togo. This study reveals that perceptions differ according to gender and that women—although marginalized by customary land tenure—play an important role in maintaining suburban agricultural land.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2021Togo
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A Collaborative Approach to Change
Informes e investigacionesEnero, 2023África, Etiopía, Tanzania, Uganda, Senegal, Colombia, Asia, Camboya, Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, GlobalLand rights are ascendant across the development sector. Movements addressing women’s empowerment, poverty, social justice, food security and climate change are all increasingly turning to land rights to strengthen their cause. In 2022, renowned philanthropist MacKenzie Scott joined these efforts by making an unprecedented $20 million investment in our work. Ms. Scott’s generous gift represents a profound endorsement of the power of land rights to improve the lives of women, men, and communities around the world.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosAgosto, 2019Gambia
A predominantly rural territory with few urban centers historically, the Gambia holds little in the way of well-known luxury resources commonly discussed in studies of western Africa. People of the region, in particular women, have exploited both riverine and oceanic food and material resources. The limited scholarship available on Gambian women reveals they have been essential to those endeavors contributing to economy, politics, society, and family institutions.
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Scaling up Land Governance for Food Security in Burkina Faso
Documentos de política y resúmenesEnero, 2022Burkina FasoThis one-pager provides details on the LAND-at-scale project in Burkina Faso. This project is implemented by Nitidae, Observatoire National du Foncier Burkina Faso (ONF-BF), Oxfam Burkina Faso, and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via the Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesEnero, 2021Kenya, Tanzania, República Democrática del Congo, Sudáfrica, Côte d'Ivoire
Achieving tenure security, land and property rights in informal urban settlements remains one of the most persistent, intractable development challenges today. The Secure Tenure in African Cities: Micro Funds for Community Innovation initiative launched by Cities Alliance aimed to address this challenge.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesSeptiembre, 2015Mauritania
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WRM Bulletin 254 – Jan/Feb 2021
Documentos de política y resúmenesEnero, 2021Mozambique, Camerún, República Democrática del Congo, Gabón, Liberia, Nigeria, Brasil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Malasia, TailandiaThe articles in this Bulletin are written by the following organizations and individuals: National Coordinator for the Defense of the Mangrove Ecosystem (C-CONDEM), Ecuador; Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakya (Bentala Raya Heritage Foundation), Indonesia; Venezuelan Observatory of Political Ecology and members of the WRM international secretariat in close collaboration with several allies who are part of grassroots groups in different countries.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2019Chad, África occidental, Burkina Faso, Malí, Mauritania, Níger, Nigeria, Senegal
Located in the arid and semi-arid areas of West Africa, the Sahel has undergone profound changes over the past 50 years. Known for the prevalence of land degradation processes, the Sahel is suffering from the combined negative effects of population growth, human activities and climate variability, resulting in recurrent droughts and the continued decline of natural resources and land productivity.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2019Burkina Faso, República Centroafricana, Camerún, Argelia, Eritrea, Etiopía, Malí, Mauritania, Níger, Nigeria, Sudán, Senegal, Sudán del Sur, Chad, África
The support plan for the Sahel is a regional approach to collectively address the root causes of disruptions such as poverty, migration and youth unemployment, climate change, insecurity, governance and institutional issues in the region. In this report an overview of the current situation for each of the priority areas of the UN Support Plan is presented to demonstrate that the full implementation of the plan could utilize an existing momentum of development not seen in decades in the Sahel.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosNoviembre, 2020Sierra Leona
Within the framework of implementing the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT), this paper summarizes the empirical findings from three sequentially related phases of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) VGGT programme, implemented as a pilot project in 2018. The methodology used relied first on context analysis of the critical aspects influencing and hindering women´s land rights.
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