Indigenous territories cover more than one-fourth of the world’s land surface, overlap with distinct ecological areas, and harbour significant cultural and biological diversity; their stewardship provides critical contributions to livelihood, food security, conservation, and climate action. How these territories are accessed, used, and managed is an important question for owner communities, state governments, development agencies, and researchers alike.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksSeptember, 2023Bolivia, Global
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2013Bolivia
In the last two decades, the best agricultural lands in Bolivia have been put into commercial production by large-scale producers closely linked to foreign investors, particularly Brazilians. Foreigners now control more than one million hectares of prime agricultural and ranching lands in Bolivia, primarily in the eastern lowland department of Santa Cruz, an important agroexport region dominated by transnational corporations and what has been termed “trans-Latina” corporations or TLCs.
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Aplicabilidad en Bolivia y Perú de las ´Directrices voluntarias sobre la governanza responsable de la tenencia de la tierra, la pesca y los bosques en el contexto de la seguridad alimentaria nacional´
Policy Papers & BriefsNovember, 2014Bolivia, PeruLas Directrices Voluntarias sobre la Gobernanza responsable de la tenencia de la tierra, la pesca y los bosques –pese a las críticas por su carácter transaccional y no vinculante– se constituyen en una importante herramienta que orienta y genera información sobre las prácticas internacionalmente aceptadas para los sistemas que regulan los derechos de uso, gestión y control de la tierra, la pesca y los bosques.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsAugust, 2009Bolivia
Este documento contiene información, análisis, doctrina, legislación comparada y propuestas normativas, relativas al diseño de implementación de autonomías indígenas según la tipología de casos. Los objetivos específicos de la investigación fueron tres: 1. Proporcionar herramientas de información y análisis que faciliten el trabajo legislativo de la Comisión de Descentralización y Participación Popular. 2. Recopilar doctrina y legislación comparada para sustentar las propuestas normativas referidas a la implementación de la autonomía indígena según tipología de casos. 3.
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An analysis based on household data from nine countries
Reports & ResearchMarch, 2015Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, AlbaniaAbout two-thirds of the developing world’s 3 billion rural people live in about 475 million small farm households, working on land plots smaller than 2 hectares. 1 Many are poor and food insecure and have limited access to markets and services. Their choices are constrained, but they farm their land and produce food for a substantial proportion of the world’s population. Besides farming they have multiple economic activities, often in the informal economy, to contribute towards their small incomes.
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Local sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities
Reports & ResearchDecember, 2010BoliviaLocal and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practitioners themselves guiding the narrative. The Equator Initiative aims to fill that gap.
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Local sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities
Reports & ResearchDecember, 2004BoliviaLocal and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practitioners themselves guiding the narrative. The Equator Initiative aims to fill that gap.
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Local sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities
Reports & ResearchDecember, 2004BoliviaLocal and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practitioners themselves guiding the narrative. The Equator Initiative aims to fill that gap.
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Local sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities
Reports & ResearchDecember, 2010BoliviaLocal and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practitioners themselves guiding the narrative. The Equator Initiative aims to fill that gap.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2019Bolivia
Construcción de la justicia desde la justicia indígena: Experiencias interlegales de Inquisivi
Magali Vienca Copa Pabón[1] / Amy Michelle Kennemore[2]
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