TNRF, UCRT and Maliasili Initiatives have published, From Promise to Performance?: Wildlife Mangement Areas in Northern Tanzania. The summary provides an overview of findings of two studies recently carried out by TNRF on the current status and performance of three WMAs in northern Tanzania, in Arusha and Manyara regions
Labor mobility is determined by a whole set of different factors, but housing market is clearly one of the most important ones. Individuals do not make employment decisions without taking into account options of housing market. Economy constantly changes and diverse opportunities arise in different locations at different points of time. Badly functioning housing market can cause low labor mobility and restrain the ability of employers to match vacancies in specific locations. The issue of labor mobility is especially vital for developing countries.
This report is in relation to a study on the Land Tenure and Livelihood Issues in the Albertine Graben Region. The study was carried out in three districts of Amuru Buliisa and Hoima. The study specifically focused on tenurial arrangements and land transactions in the region. The ultimate outcome of this study will be drawing of policy issues for policy engagement and dialogue towards a comprehensive policy direction to land governance in the Albertine Graben.
This report provides an overview of the conflict in Loliondo, reviewing historical information, current land uses and tenure arrangements.
A expansão da soja nas cercanias das Terras Indigenas nao necessariamente resulta em relações entre as partes ou impactos sobre os indios, mas reforça uma preocupação já manifestada pelo movimento indigena do Cerrado.
Colombia cuenta con uno de los legados indígenas más diversos del mundo, queengloba a una gran variedad de culturas,idiomas, estructuras sociales y formas de vida.Según el censo de 2005, en Colombia vivencasi 1,4 millones de indígenas, en torno al 3,4por ciento de la población total. Los cálculossobre el número de grupos indígenas distintosvarían: el censo de 2005 registró 85, pero,según la Por ejemplo, menos del 8 por ciento de lastierras de los resguardos son aptas para laagricultura.
*Irma Lorena Acosta Reveles
Los campos agrícolas latinoamericanos, lo mismo que la sociedad rural del subcontinente, son espacios de intensos contrastes. Dos extremos de esta realidad, extendida desde el norte de México hasta el sur de la Patagonia, son las misérrimas explotaciones campesinas y el pujante empresariado agropecuario; ambos prototipos de racionalidades productivas contrapuestas que, sin embargo, confluyen, al mostrar por diferentes vías la precariedad de las condiciones de vida y de trabajo de la población que se dedica a las labores agrarias.
Up to one quarter of the world’s population is estimated to be landless, including 200 million
people living in rural areas,1
and approximately 75% of the world’s population living in extreme
poverty (less than $1/day) live in rural areas.2
According to the Food and Agriculture Agency of the
United Nations (FAO), “rural landlessness is often the best predictor of poverty and hunger.”3
“While not the only pathway out of poverty, ample evidence suggests that access to land is effective
The practice of forced eviction is a global phenomenon. Between 1995 and 2005, a survey covering only ten countries, showed that over ten million people were forcibly evicted. These people were left homeless and subject to deeper poverty, discrimination and social exclusion. A number of such evictions involve entire communities of tens or even hundreds of thousands of people. Such communities are invariably evicted against their will and in most cases without any compensation or alternative housing.
This is the report relating to the facts finding mission conducted by HAKIARDHI and LHRC as an intervention in response to an outcry from the villagers at Namwawala village in Kilombero district, Morogoro region, owing to the alleged plan of the government to take possession of the village land for investment purposes.
The protection given to the land rights of women, orphans and any other vulnerable groups in Northern and Eastern Uganda is probably as good as can be found anywhere in the world. Customary land law is based on three main principles. First, everyone is entitled to land, and no-one can ever be denied land rights. A second principle is that all inherited land is family land, never individual property.
