Azerbaijan’s performance on the twin
goals has been commendable. The middle class has doubled in
size and extreme poverty has almost been eliminated in the
space of a decade. At the same time, regional differences
persist, with significantly higher poverty rates in lagging
regions, and Baku dominating overwhelmingly in terms of
share of GDP. Disparities in welfare also persist between
rural and urban areas as well as across social groups. As
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesNoviembre, 2015Azerbaiyán
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A brief analysis based on data from the Land Matrix in current dynamic and complex climate & land governance discourse
Informes e investigacionesJulio, 2016GlobalBased on data from the Land Matrix database, this paper briefly analyses large-scale land acquisitions in the context of current complex and dynamic land and climate governance discourse. The paper tries to explain the inter linkages between land and climate governance, within the water-food-energy nexus, and the increasing and important role for science, technology and innovation in agriculture in order to become more resilient to current and future challenges in climate and land governance.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2014Bangladesh, Camboya, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistán, Filipinas
This publication compiles land grab cases documented by LWA partners in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and Philippines. The cases highlight how farmers, women, and indigenous peoples have been displaced from their lands; and how ecosystems have been destroyed, food security undermined and livelihoods lost. This publication also features the recommended principles of responsible agricultural investment (rai) governing land investments in the Philippines recognizing the importance of farming and fishing communities in the country.
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A new era of the global land rush
Informes e investigacionesSeptiembre, 2016Australia, Global, Honduras, India, Mozambique, Perú, Sri LankaSince 2009, Oxfam and others have been raising the alarm about a great global land rush. Millions of hectares of land have been acquired by investors to meet rising demand for food and biofuels, or for speculation. This often happens at the expense of those who need the land most and are best placed to protect it: farmers, pastoralists, forest-dependent people, fisherfolk, and indigenous peoples.
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Human Rights and Land Confiscation in Karen State
Informes e investigacionesNoviembre, 2016MyanmarIn Burma, where 70 percent of people earn a living through agriculture, securing land is often equivalent to securing a livelihood. But instead of creating conditions for sustainable development, recent Burmese governments have enacted abusive laws, enforced poorly conceived policies, and encouraged corrupt land administration officials that have promoted the displacement of small-scale farmers and rural villagers.
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Holding the Development Finance Institutions responsible when private sector projects fail. The case of Addax Bioethanol in Sierra Leone.
Informes e investigacionesSeptiembre, 2016Sierra LeonaFollowing the financial and food crisis in 2008 the phenomenon of land grabbing through large-scale investments in land leading to forcible displacement of rural population, increasing their food insecurity and disregarding Human Rights became a hot topic on the global agenda. At the same time it became clear, that more investments were needed into the agricultural sector to increase food security and secure agricultural productivity.
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A Comparative Study of Land Rights Systems in Southeast Asia and the Potential of National and International Legal Frameworks and Guidelines
Informes e investigacionesSeptiembre, 2016Asia sudoriental, Camboya, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Filipinas, Viet Nam“It is paradoxical but hardly surprising that the right to food has been endorsed more often and with greater unanimity and urgency than most other human rights, while at the same time being violated more comprehensively and systematically than probably any other.”
Richard Cohen, in Causes of Hunger, 1994
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A mixed-methods assessment in Mukono County, Uganda
Informes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2014UgandaIn a first study of this kind, International Justice Mission has used mixed methods assessment to portray the depth of widow and orphan property grabbing problem and lack of justice system response in Mukono County, Uganda. The report demonstrates that nearly a third of widows have experienced land grabbing with virtually no criminal justice system response.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesMayo, 2014Paraguay
El Barrio de Ykua Porâ en Chino Cue, Paraguay, es una extensa comunidad campesina generada a partir de una ocupación colectiva pionera. Unas 60 familias forman parte de la asociación de productores y productoras. La tenencia de la tierra es familiar. Cada familia porta un título provisorio emitido en 2010 por el INDERT, que les permite hacer gestiones ante instituciones estatales y privadas.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesMayo, 2014Colombia
Se trata de un caso donde 10 familias migran, ocupan y acceden, vía adjudicación estatal, a tierras incautadas al narcotráfico, con perspectivas actuales de producción familiar, agroecología y agroforestería.
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