In most of the world, families live and work together on their land. Why does it matter then, who manages the family’s land and other resources? For an overview of why women’s land rights matter, read this USAID Issue Brief.
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Library ResourceDocumentos de política y resúmenesEnero, 2011
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New OECD publication "Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment"
Informes e investigacionesEnero, 2011GlobalAid in Support of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (pdf, 1.5MB) published in March 2011, presents statistics on aid from DAC members to sectors focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment for the period 2008-2009.
The Global Donor Platform OECD focal point, Karim Hussein, points out that page 5 of this new publication reviews agriculture and rural development and interestingly showed that only 5% of DAC donor aid for agricultural inputs had a gender equality focus.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesEnero, 2011
- The SOFA Report 2011: “Women in agriculture: Closing the gender gap for development” (User:Wikigender, 15:02, 17 March 2011)
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A review of the treatment of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in policies and projects
Informes e investigacionesEnero, 2011Camerún"In this report, it is argued that national REDD readiness planning activities in Cameroon, including activities involving the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), lack effective actions to ensure the participation of indigenous peoples and local communities, miss solid data on the drivers of deforestation and gloss over critical land tenure, carbon rights and benefit sharing issues.
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Library ResourceDocumentos de política y resúmenesEnero, 2011
Dubbed "Land Grabs" by the media, these commercial land acquisitions, in which investors buy up or lease vast swaths of land in developing countries to develop super-sized farms, pose particular danger for subsistence farmers, women and other pastoralists in developing countries, many of whom have been using their plot of land for generations but have no formal paperwork to prove their legal ownership of the land.
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Concept, tools and applications
Recursos y herramientas de capacitaciónEnero, 2011GlobalCreating food security, dealing with climate change and promoting economic growth are the challenges facing rural regions of developing countries. Raising agricultural production and making it sustainable are keys to success in coping with these challenges. Land is a pivotal factor of strategies to develop rural areas.
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Library ResourceRecursos y herramientas de capacitaciónEnero, 2011Global
The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) encouraged FAO at its VII Session to promote the recognition of indigenous peoples’ territorial rights.
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Library ResourceRecursos y herramientas de capacitaciónEnero, 2011Global
The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) encouraged FAO at its VII Session to promote the recognition of indigenous peoples’ territorial rights.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesEnero, 2011Global
The Global Gathering of Women Pastoralists, held from 21-26 November 2010 in Mera (Gujarat), India, brought together over 100 women from herding communities scattered across 32 different countries to discuss the myriad problems faced by nomadic and semi-nomadic women pastoralists worldwide, and how, united, they can strive to solve them.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesEnero, 2011África
This paper explores the phenomenon of land grabbing in Africa, including the key drivers and policy responses.
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