The Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights developed the Women’s Land Tenure Framework to assist anyone who is interested in understanding the complex issues associated with women’s land rights — officials, grassroots organizations, international technical advisers, policymakers, development practitioners, women’s rights advocates, land rights advocates, people who are developing programs to assist women farmers, people who are concerned with food security, and others.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesEnero, 2016Global
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LGSA Women's Land Rights Study
Informes e investigacionesMarzo, 2018LiberiaLand is the most important asset for many rural Liberian women and men, and is often a family’s primary source of cash income, food and nutritional security, health care, and education. Though women play a central role in agricultural production in Liberia, women’s rights and access to land are often not equal to those of men due to biases in the formal legal framework and customary law.
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Road map para a revisão da lei de terras
Legislación y políticasAbril, 2016MozambiqueEste Road Map tem como objectivo propôr os aspectos principais e os passos a seguir para iniciar, acompanhar e contribuir para uma revisão da actual Lei de Terras (LT -Lei 19/97 de 199 de Outubro). A revisão da Lei implica também a subsequente revisão dos instrumentos implementadores, nomeadamente Decretos e Diplomas Ministeriais conexos aprovados desde 1997.
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Library ResourceDocumentos de política y resúmenesJulio, 2017Mozambique
A terra, no que respeita ao regime jurídico, formas de acesso e ocupação, segurança de posse, tipos de utilização, investimento e planeamento do território, é um elemento estruturante que influencia o tipo de desenvolvimento a longo prazo.
Para além de permitir a principal fonte de subsistência nas zonas rurais (actividade agrícola), a terra constitui também um elemento sagrado que garante o encontro com os ancestrais e estrutura as relações sociais, sobretudo em sociedades maioritariamente rurais como as moçambicanas.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2008Mozambique
O presente volume reúne algumas das comunicações apresentadas no painel sobre “Cidadania e Governação” da Conferência Inaugural do Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos (IESE), que teve lugar em Setembro de 2007, em Maputo. Tratando-se de um tema muito amplo e aberto, não existe uma problemática comum aos textos seleccionados.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosEnero, 2011Mozambique
Private investment is critical to Mozambique’s development strategy.
Investment can stimulate the rural economy by helping to modernize the
agriculture sector, provide rural employment, and establish new markets
and market linkages. Private investment can fund the development of -
Library ResourceDocumentos de conferencias e informesAbril, 2012Mozambique
Investidores agrícolas estrangeiros estão em conflitos com camponeses locais em Moçambique, num confronto sobre modelos agrícolas e desenvolvimento. Investidores estrangeiros de olho em terra aparentemente vaga, prometem lucros elevados (muitas vezes inflacionados) a investidores e parceiros locais. Alguns esperam capitalizar com créditos de carbono ou produzir biocombustíveis e alegam ser investimentos “verdes” (ecológicos). Todos prometem empregos, escolas e desenvolvimento local.
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A guide to Legislation, Policy and Case Law
Informes e investigacionesJunio, 2017Global, África, SudáfricaTwenty years after the end of apartheid farm dwellers remain some of the most vulnerable people in South Africa, with many still facing extreme tenure insecurity and lacking access to adequate housing and basic services.2 The approximately three million black South Africans (6% of the population) who live on privately owned farms in formerly white commercial farming areas are among the poorest South Africans,3 whose vulnerability is exacerbated by their “socio-economic marginality and geographical isolation”.4
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Agriculture Status Report 2016
Informes e investigacionesAgosto, 2016ZambiaZambia’s agriculture sector provides the main support for the rural economy. This assertion is based on the fact that about forty nine percent of the Zambian population depends on agriculture, primarily through smallholder production for their livelihoods and employment (CSO, 2014). Notwithstanding this fact, in 2015 the sector contributed 8.5 percent to the GDP and approximately 9.6 percent of national export earnings (CSO, 2015; World Bank, 2016). The potential for agricultural growth in Zambia is staggering.
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A Case Study of Selected Agricultural Investments in Zambia
Informes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2013África, ZambiaIn recent years, Zambia has witnessed increased interest from private investors in acquiring land for
agriculture. As elsewhere, large-scale land acquisitions are often accompanied with promises of capital
investments to build infrastructure, bring new technologies and know-how, create employment, and
improve market access, among other benefits. But agricultural investments create risks as well as
opportunities, for instance in relation to loss of land for family farmers. While much debate on ‘land
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