Community Land Law.
Reports & Research
January, 2013
A report of a Conference held in Nairobi 6-7th June 2013. Includes case studies on community land rights from South Africa, Uganda, Mozambique, Rwanda, Brazil and Kenya.
Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin Issue 4
Reports & Research
January, 2013
News, views and experiences of policy-makers, practitioners and communities on making rangelands secure for local users
Realizing Women's Rights to Land and other Natural Resources
Legislation & Policies
January, 2013
Global
Women’s access to, use of and control over land and other productive resources are essential to ensuring their right to equality and to an adequate standard of living. Throughout the world, gender inequality when it comes to land and other productive resources is related to women’s poverty and exclusion.
International calls to fulfil Indian Government promises on land reform
Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2013
International Human Rights Day is the day to send reminders from around the world to Jairam Ramesh, India’s Minister for Rural Development, to keep the promises he made one year ago to 100 000 marchers in Agra.
Reconciling Indigenous and Women¹s Rights to Land in Sub-Saharan Africa
Reports & Research
January, 2013
Africa
by Aparna Polavarapu (University of South Carolina - School of Law)
Gender and equity implications of land-related investments - Cases of study - Zambia,Tanzania, Ghana and Lao (FAO, 2013)
Reports & Research
January, 2013
Ghana
The gender and equity implications of land-related investments on land access and labour and income-generating opportunities A case study of selected agricultural Investments in LAO PDR (2013)
Gender and equity implications of land-related investments - Case of study - Tanzania (FAO, 2013)
Reports & Research
January, 2013
Africa
A Case Study of Selected Agricultural Investments in Northern Tanzania (2013)
For early reports, see FAO’s Corporate Document Repository
Gender and equity implications of land-related investments - Case of study - Laos (FAO, 2013)
Reports & Research
January, 2013
South-Eastern Asia
The gender and equity implications of land-related investments on land access and labour and income-generating opportunities
>> A case study of selected agricultural Investments in LAO PDR (2013)
Gender and equity implications of land-related investments - Case of study - Zambia (FAO 2013)
Reports & Research
January, 2013
Southern Africa
In 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
A Case Study of Selected Agricultural Investments in Zambia (2013)
Does Sharecropping Affect Productivity and Long-Term Investment? Evidence from West Bengal’s Tenancy Reforms
January, 2013
Although transfer of agricultural land
ownership through land reform had positive impacts on
productivity, investment, and political empowerment in many
cases, institutional arrangements in West Bengal -- which
made tenancy heritable and imposed a prohibition on
subleasing -- imply that early land reform benefits may not
be sustained and gains from this policy remain well below
potential. Data from a listing of 96,000 households in 200