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Institutional options for managing rangelands

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2003

This brief considers the benefits and costs of alternative tenure and institutional arrangements and the impact of existing legal and policy frameworks on the sustainability and equity of pastoral production systems under three categories of landownership: (1) state ownership; (2) individual ownership; and (3) common property... Achieving efficient, equitable, and sustainable rangeland management depends on the costs and benefits of alternative systems. These costs and benefits, in turn, depend on agroecological, sociocultural, and economic characteristics.

Digesto de la jurisprudencia latinoamericana sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas a la participación, la consulta previa y la propiedad comunitaria

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Latin America and the Caribbean

 
La obra jurídica elaborada por María Clara Galvis Patiño y Ángela María Ramírez Rincón sistematiza y analiza decisiones judiciales de altas cortes de nueve países de América Latina: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panamá y Perú.
El citado Digesto refleja los debates y problemas jurídicos que han tenido que resolver los jueces ante el alto número de conflictos sociales relacionados con la propiedad de la tierra, el territorio y los recursos naturales de los pueblos indígenas.

Atlas de la tenencia de la tierra en el Ecuador

Manuals & Guidelines
August, 2011
Ecuador

El "Atlas sobre la tenencia de la tierra en el Ecuador" constituye una colección de mapas que dan cuenta de la tenencia de la tierra en Ecuador: quiénes tienen acceso a la tierra, en qué magnitud, cuáles son los tipos de cultivo y en qué cantones y provincias se encuentran.
Debido al tamaño del archivo, visite este link para poder descargarlo.

From Risk and Conflict to Peace and Prosperity

Reports & Research
January, 2017
Kenya
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Senegal
Brazil
Colombia
Peru
China
Indonesia
India

Amid the realities of major political turbulence, there was growing recognition in 2016 that the land rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities are key to ensuring peace and prosperity, economic development, sound investment, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Despite equivocation by governments, a critical mass of influential investors and companies now recognize the market rationale for respecting community land rights.

Local use agreements: contributing to decentralisation and democritisation?

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
Global

There is growing degradation in sylvo-pastoral lands that were originally under common property regimes, but over which the state now asserts ownership. User associations are being given the right to take charge of regulating how these areas are sustainably exploited by means of use agreements, and are proving an effective instrument in halting the degradation process.

Réforme Agraire: Colonisation et coopératives agricoles 2002/2

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2002
Switzerland
Guatemala
Guinea-Bissau
Bolivia
Guinea
Costa Rica
Niger
Mozambique
Philippines
South Africa
Nicaragua
Italy
Ecuador
Norway
Sudan
Mexico
Brazil
Asia
Africa
Americas

The management of conflict over land and natural resources is a very broad issue and there is a growing literature on techniques that have potential for use in this field. At the moment, the Land Tenure Service of FAO’s Rural Development Division is working towards achieving a deeper understanding of the current methods and practices in land conflict management and is gathering cases from all over the world to ascertain the techniques used and the results achieved. This edition of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, prepared with the strong support of Ms A.

Communal Tenure and the Governance of Common Property Resources in Asia

Reports & Research
November, 2011
Bangladesh
United States of America
Afghanistan
China
Sri Lanka
Indonesia
Australia
Laos
United Kingdom
Guinea
Republic of Korea
Thailand
Nepal
Pakistan
Yemen
Philippines
Singapore
Vietnam
Kyrgyzstan
Myanmar
Brunei Darussalam
Cambodia
Japan
India
Kazakhstan
Georgia
Malaysia
Papua New Guinea
Mongolia
Asia
Oceania

Land Tenure Working Paper 20. This paper presents an analysis of communal tenure and its role for natural resource management system, in different contexts of selected Asian countries. The current market driven pressures on natural resources create both challenges and opportunities for communities and governments to use and strengthen communal tenure in order to promote sustainable management of some natural resources.

Statutory recognition of customary land rights in Africa

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2010
Angola
Burkina Faso
United States of America
Zambia
Mali
Germany
Namibia
Eswatini
Ghana
Guinea
Malawi
Niger
Cameroon
Mozambique
South Africa
Lesotho
Uganda
Tanzania
Botswana
Senegal
Papua New Guinea
Africa

Given the recent trend of granting vast areas of African land to foreign investors, the urgency of placing real ownership in the hands of the people living and making their livelihood upon lands held according to custom cannot be overstated. This study provides guidance on how best to recognize and protect the land rights of the rural poor. Protecting and enforcing the land rights of rural Africans may be best done by passing laws that elevate existing customary land rights up into nations' formal legal frameworks thereby making customary land rights equal to documented land claims.

Leaving two thirds out of development: Female headed households and common property resources in the highlands of Tigray, Ethiopia

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2006
Nepal
Zambia
Afghanistan
Guatemala
Indonesia
Canada
Ethiopia
New Zealand
Mozambique
Laos
Uganda
Kyrgyzstan
Netherlands
India
Mongolia
Mexico
Cambodia
Africa

This report contains the results of a study of gender and access to forest and tree resources, women and men’s use of common lands and botanical resources, and the importance of these resources for the livelihoods of people in highland Ethiopia.