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  1. Library Resource
    Documentos de política y resúmenes
    Enero, 2022
    África, Tanzania, África occidental

    Key Messages and Recommendations

    • Combating desertification and land degradation while mitigating the effects of drought can secure long-term socio-economic benefits for people living in drylands and reduce their vulnerability to climate change.

    • Land degradation neutrality (LDN) is an approach that counterbalances the expected loss of productive land with the recovery of degraded areas.

    • Land tenure insecurity, especially for women, often prevents farmers from adopting sustainable land management practices

  2. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Abril, 2021
    Timor-Leste

    This article discusses the inherent limitations of law in transitional justice processes regarding land grievances. Through analysis of the case of Timor-Leste (East Timor), a country marked by post-colonialism, post-authoritarianism, and post-conflict. The article shows how complex transitional justice regarding land grievances can be, and argues that a legalist perspective gives a limited view of these grievances, both for studying and finding solutions to them. The article employs the concept of ‘wicked problems’ to overcome the limitations of law.

  3. Library Resource
    Informes e investigaciones
    Diciembre, 2021
    Sri Lanka

    Endless War: The Destroyed Land, Life, and Identity of the Tamil People in Sri Lanka, brings forth shocking new evidence on the extent of the continued persecution of the minority Tamil population in the North and East of the country.

  4. Library Resource

    A novel framework with an application to Rwanda’s organic land law 2005

    Publicación revisada por pares
    Marzo, 2021
    África subsahariana, Rwanda

    Land laws provide a legal basis for addressing a country’s land-related strategies and are the central land policy instruments through which governments realise land policy objectives. Considering their vital role, it is imperative that land laws be evaluated to ensure that policy objectives are followed and that the laws are not ineffective or counterproductive. The extant literature, however, provides only a fragmentary basis for evaluation.

  5. Library Resource

    Southeast Europe 2021

    Manual y guías
    Informes e investigaciones
    Octubre, 2021
    Europa, Europa oriental, Europa meridional

    The present Guidelines form part of a joint effort by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to help countries achieve indicator 5.a.2 of Target 5.a in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations in 2015.

  6. Library Resource
    Informes e investigaciones
    Diciembre, 2010
    Tanzania

    Posted in: African farm news in review, issue #133

  7. Library Resource
    protection manual
    Manual y guías
    Enero, 2008
    Global

    This manual provides guidance on management logic that can be taken up in different organisational contexts and structures to incorporate security into the work plan to protect human rights defenders.

  8. Library Resource
    Housing and Land Rights Network Toolkit
    Manual y guías
    Marzo, 2015
    Global

    This toolkit provides an overview of the main international legal basis and popular claims that ground the human right to adequate housing. It comes with a checklist to compare these international texts with national states' engagements and practices.

  9. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Noviembre, 2020
    Sierra 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.

  10. Library Resource
    Informes e investigaciones
    Julio, 2014
    Zambia, Brasil, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Ucrania, Papua Nueva Guinea

    Driving Dispossession: The Global Push to “Unlock the Economic Potential of Land,” sounds the alarm on the unprecedented wave of privatization of natural resources that is underway around the world. Through six case studies — Ukraine, Zambia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Brazil — the report details the myriad ways by which governments — willingly or under the pressure of financial institutions and Western donor agencies — are putting more land into so-called “productive use” in the name of development.

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