Tetra Tech’s land tenure and property rights experts examine how weak land and resource governance can fuel drivers of violent extremism. With a focus on the African Sahel, this new issue brief finds this dynamic is especially prevalent when land and resource governance challenges are coupled with environmental disruptions, resource scarcity, or migration.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesMayo, 2019Argelia, Sudán, Sahara Occidental, Eritrea, Etiopía, Sudán del Sur, Camerún, República Centroafricana, Chad, Burkina Faso, Malí, Mauritania, Níger, Nigeria, Senegal
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosEnero, 1970Italia, Madagascar, Níger, Perú
This issue of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives contains an interesting and
wide-ranging set of contributions providing insights into land related issues ranging from
Italy to the Central Andes, and from the historical development of sustainable tenure
practices to aspects of agriculture sector planning.
The eight articles featured open with that of Lavigne Delville, which addresses issues
relating to insecurity of tenure in West Africa, and identifies what the paths of change
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Library ResourceManual y guíasEnero, 1970Etiopía, Namibia, Burkina Faso, Panamá, Brasil, Viet Nam, Jordania, Rumania, Reino Unido, Alemania, Samoa
The Eastern and Anglophone Western Africa Regional Assessment meeting was organized by a task force consisting of FAO, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, African Land Policy Initiative, the United Nations World Food Programme, United Nations Development Programme, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme officials in Ethiopia.
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Outcomes from Uganda, Ghana & Ethiopia
Documentos de política y resúmenesAgosto, 2016Etiopía, Uganda, GhanaEquitable access to land is vital for inclusive economic growth, sustainable development and food security. Although much is known about the topics of land governance and food security, it is not always clear how the two relate to each other, especially in specific country contexts. This reflection paper, based on literature, LANDac country factsheets and three learning trajectories initiated by LANDac in Uganda, Ghana and Ethiopia, brings together findings and outcomes to provide policy recommendations for improved land governance and food security in Africa.
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A review of literature and case studies from sub-Saharan Africa
Informes e investigacionesMarzo, 2017Mozambique, Uganda, Ghana, SenegalAccess to land is at the heart of rural livelihoods. In sub-Saharan Africa, the pace and scale at which land is changing hands are increasing fast. Understanding these changes in land access is crucial if the systems of land governance, the practices of companies and organisations, and the initiatives seeking to influence rural development, are to adapt and have a positive impact.
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Library ResourceMarzo, 2015Bangladesh, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Kenya, Liberia, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Uganda
Guest commentary by Amanda Richardson, Resource Equity, and Ailey Kaiser Hughes, Landesa.
A growing body of evidence shows a correlation between gender-based violence (GBV) and land rights. Awareness of the possible GBV implications of land interventions is critical to understanding impacts on women. -
Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosSeptiembre, 2013Etiopía, Malawi, Mozambique, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria
The G8’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition aims to lift 50 million people out of poverty in ten years through a partnership between G8 members, African nations and the private sector. In order to increase production at a rate needed to achieve food security, the New Alliance seeks to accelerate responsible investment in African agriculture and commit to coordinated policy reforms.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesAgosto, 2013Kenya, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Irlanda
A new report from the World Bank suggests that Africa, which is home to half the world’s uncultivated land, can significantly reduce poverty, achieve rapid economic growth, and increase food security by improving land governance systems and strengthening land tenure and resource rights. “Land governance issues need to be front and center in Africa to maintain and better its surging growth and achieve its development promise,” says Frank Byamugisha, author of the report and lead land specialist in the World Bank’s Africa region.
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Library ResourceOctubre, 2012Kenya, Liberia
A recent New York Times article features a conversation with Roy Prosterman, founder of Landesa, a Seattle, Washington-based NGO and partner in USAID Land Tenure projects in Kenya, Liberia and other locations. Prosterman founded Landesa, formerly the Rural Development Institute, in 1966 and has been nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize. To date, Landesa has worked with local governments in over 50 countries to develop laws, policies and programs that provide secure land rights for the world’s poorest people.
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Library ResourceJulio, 2012Liberia, Mozambique, Uganda
The NGO Namati, along with partner IDLO, has just issued a new report entitled “Protecting Community Lands and Resources.” Over the past decade there has been a strong shift in land tenure work away from projects that provide for individualized titling of lands and towards the recognition of customary tenure systems and the formalization of rights held by communities. Countries adopt various approaches to formalization but often pass laws that are, on their face, designed to help protect communities against illegal or coercive dispossession and loss of rights by documenting rights.
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