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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2015
    Global

    Licuri is a highly valuable tree species, both to local ecosystems and in traditional cultural uses, with a clear commercial niche. Its productive and sustainable uses are directly linked to ecosystem conservation and women’s empowerment—which is being further developed to great success. Project partners are working together to increase the mechanization of the licuri harvesting and production process, aiming to lessen the time-burden on women and enhance their livelihood potential.

  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2014
    Global

    For generations, people have managed natural resources in such a way that their multiple needs for food, fibre, fodder, fuel, building materials, medicinal products and drinking water were largely fulfilled. Farming, livestock, forestry and fisheries systems have evolved, and been adapted to variable and changing environmental and socio-economic conditions. Not only natural factors, but also population growth or loss, tenure arrangements, labour availability, access to markets and economic growth, as well as cultural traditions and political strategies, have shaped landscapes over time.

  3. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2015
    Global

    Land is a key driver of conflicts and is a bottleneck to recovery. Although increasingly acknowledged as a critical factor in peace-making and peacebuilding, land-related issues are often linked to the development agenda but are not properly addressed in post-conflict and peacebuilding. Neither are they inserted in the conflict cycle analysis. Conflicts are often not linear in character and phases of insecurity and partial stability can alternate.

  4. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2014
    Global

    The “Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National Food Security” (VGGT), endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in 2012, set out principles and internationally accepted standards for responsible practices and is the first comprehensive intergovernmental global instrument on tenure and its administration.

  5. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2014
    Global

    The Legal Assessment Tool (LAT) for gender-equitable land tenure was developed by FAO’s

    Gender and Land Rights Database (GLRD) for the purpose of providing prompt, targeted and

    effective policy advice and capacity development to FAO’s Member countries working towards

    gender-equitable land tenure.

  6. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    November, 2014
    Global

    The Pacific Islands, a group of fourteen island nations in the South Pacific Ocean had been a source of low interest for the global powers, however, this seems to have changed as Asia draws increasing attention from the world economies in the 21st century. Despite geographical distance and unenthusiastic historical interaction, initiation of India’s development engagement with these island nations date back to as early as the year 1973.

  7. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2014
    Global, Uganda

    The Social Tenure Domain Model offers practical solutions and opportunities for land professionals, researchers, grassroots organisations and government authorities. These opportunities include the empowerment of the grassroots communities to develop and manage their own information systems (and their own data), with all the benefits of the advanced technologies can offer, with less investment in resources and with less reliance on highly paid experts. Land professionals can also make their services available to all and offer people-centred and affordable solutions.

  8. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2014
    Global

    In many parts of the world, women’s rights to land and property are systematically denied. Women have fewer or less secure rights than men, and discriminatory attitudes and practices undermine them. This leaves many women vulnerable, and almost entirely dependent on the men in their lives for basic economic survival. 


    Dependance on men can lead to entrapment in abusive relationships, less control over sexual relations, and less ability to produce food or secure food.


  9. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2014
    Global

    News, views and experiences of policy makers, practitioners, academics and communities on making rangelands more secure.

  10. Library Resource

    Madeleine Fairbairn

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2014
    Global

    At the turn of the 21st century, farmland was still considered an investment backwater by most of the financial sector. Although some insurance companies have had farmland holdings for years, most financial investors found farmland, and agricultural investment in general, unappealing compared to the much higher returns to be made in financial markets.


    Introduction: Farmland, A Safe Investment in Troubling Financial Times


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