Drawing primarily on a series of sectoral papers presented at a UNDP-EC workshop on poverty and the environment in January 1999 and on supplemental materials, this paper attempts to provide an integrated framework for looking at poverty-environment interactions across a number of resource regimes. It seeks to identify common analytical elements, to identify principles that have produced win-win outcomes, and to extract some general principles for policy formulation and implementation.

This strategy is built on three guiding pillars: harnessing the potential of forests to reduce poverty, integrating forests into sustainable economic development, and protecting global forest values. Recognizing the key role forests play in contributing to the livelihoods of people living in extreme poverty, government and local ownership of forest policies and interventions are emphasized along with the development of appropriate institutions to ensure good governance and the mainstreaming of forests into national development planning.

Dubbed "Land Grabs" by the media, these commercial land acquisitions, in which investors buy up or lease vast swaths of land in developing countries to develop super-sized farms, pose particular danger for subsistence farmers, women and other pastoralists in developing countries, many of whom have been using their plot of land for generations but have no formal paperwork to prove their legal ownership of the land.

INDIAN GENDERCIDE: A GREAT THREAT TO SECURITY

Dr Gursharan Singh Kainth

Director

PRIVATE SECTOR COMMENTS ON the FAO’s Zero Draft of the “Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and Other Natural Resources”

Unruh JD (2011) Land rights and peacebuilding: challenges and responses. International
Journal of Peace Studies. 15: 89-125.

Unruh JD (2011) Land rights and peacebuilding: challenges and responses. International
Journal of Peace Studies. 15: 89-125.

A new issue of the FAO Land Tenure Journal is now published in both hardcopy and in electronic formats. The 1/2011 issue features five continents and subcontinents exploring common challenges including tenure governance, the legal recognition of customary tenures, land scarcity and redistributive reforms, and the increasing role of information technology in tenure systems. The Land Tenure Journal provides an open, impartial and practice-oriented global forum for promoting the latest knowledge in land tenure.

The Working Group on Land Relations for formulation of 11th Five Year Plan was set up by the Planning Commission under the Chairmanship of Shri D. Band yopadhyay, vide order No. M-12018/1/2005-RD dated March 13, 2006, having the terms of reference and members.

Präsentationen zum Fachgespräch Landnutzung und Klimawandel in Madagaskar vom 31.08.2011 - Tanja Pickardt und Klaus Ackermann (GIZ)

Abstract
The persistent interplay of food production problems, land
degradation, and social and climatic difficulties on the Horn of
Africa result in recurring famines in spite of vast sums of money
spent on agricultural development. As land resources--which
undergird both social and production systems in Africa--become
increasingly degraded, development efforts, especially in
problematic areas, need to become part of comprehensive resource
use programs that take into account the existing regional land

RISD in conjuction with IFAD carried out a study on ’Strengthening Women’s Access to Land’ in the Districts of Kayonza and Kirehe in Eastern Province.