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Governança de Terras: Da Teoria à Realidade Brasileira

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Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
América Latina e Caribe
América do Sul
Brasil
O quadro legal e institucional, construído historicamente, que regulamenta a propriedade e a posse da terra no Brasil tem sido responsável por vários tipos de problemas fundiários no país que vão desde os conflitos de terras rurais, a ausência de moradias urbanas, as ocupações de terras rurais e urbanas (por alguns, chamadas de invasões), o desmatamento das florestas tropicais, a gr

Community Land Protection Initiative

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Training Resources & Tools
December, 2016
Global

The Community Land Protection Initiative provides land rights defenders with the practical skills to support communities to document and protect their indigenous and customary lands. It includes practical how-to videos, blogs and other tools that will help you design interventions to protect community land rights.

UNCTAD's Investment Policy Hub

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Training Resources & Tools
December, 2016
Global

This policy hub brings together useful resources for policy makers on a wide variety of topics: formulating investment policies, negotiating investment agreements, monitoring investment policies in other countries and more.

An Analysis of Non-State and State Approaches for Forest Certification in Mexico

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Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2016
Mexico

Mexico has had a non-state forest certification system under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) since it was initiated in 1993, and developed a new state-sponsored Mexican Forest Certification System (MFCS) that began in 2008. Several analyses have been made of FSC forest certification in Mexico, but none have summarized the new MFCS system or compared its standards with FSC.

Towards a Theoretical Construct for Modelling Smallholders’ Forestland-Use Decisions: What Can We Learn from Agriculture and Forest Economics?

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Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2016
Global

Academic research on smallholders’ forestland-use decisions is regularly addressed in different streams of literature using different theoretical constructs that are independently incomplete.