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Secure Land Tenure Rights for All: Key Condition for Sustainable Development

Successful Approaches and Their Impacts

Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2019
Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda, Namibia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Brazil, Peru, Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Eastern Europe, Global
cadastral administration
community land rights
customary tenure
displacement
eviction
gender equity in access to land
informal settlements
land registration
land rights
land tenure systems
private ownership
public ownership
tenure security
tenure regularization
The aim of this policy paper is to present successful approaches to secure land tenure rights in rural and urban areas. To support future programmatic decisions by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), this paper focusses especially on impacts and good practices. It discusses examples from the German technical cooperation but also includes good practices and impacts achieved by other development partners.
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Climate-Smart Agriculture in Zambia

Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2017
Zambia, Africa, Southern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
climate change
land use
food security
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Climate-Smart Agriculture in Mozambique

Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2017
Mozambique, Southern Africa, Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
climate change
land use
food security
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Climate-Smart Agriculture in Lesotho

Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2018
Lesotho, Africa
Land & Food Security
land use
food security
agriculture
The climate-smart agriculture (CSA) concept reflects an ambition
to improve the integration of agricultural development and climate
responsiveness. It aims to achieve food security and broader
development goals under a changing climate and increasing food
demand. CSA initiatives sustainably increase productivity, enhance
resilience, and reduce/remove greenhouse gases (GHGs); and
require planning to address trade-offs and synergies between
these three pillars: productivity, adaptation, and mitigation [1].
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Empowering women in integrated crop-livestock farming through innovation platforms: Experience in semi-arid Zimbabwe

Policy Papers & Briefs
February, 2018
Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa
Land & Gender
women
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Land redistribution: South Africans prioritize land taken in forced removals, support ‘willing seller’ approach

Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2018
South Africa
expropriation
land distribution
land reform
In 1913, South Africa’s Land Act set aside 87% of the country’s land for exclusive use and ownership by white people, helping to divide the nation into a relatively prosperous white heartland and a cluster of increasingly impoverished black reserves on the periphery and within cities (Walker, 2017). More than a century later, South Africa is still struggling to redress this historical injustice and the inequality it continues to foster.
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Learning from the decline of smallholder agricultural projects in the Kat River Valley, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2017
South Africa
Land & Food Security
land use
Local level, collective small-scale farming projects in the Kat River Valley, like elsewhere, have proven difficult to sustain. Various factors from macro-level policies to local level social and political dynamics were found to hinder or block the success of such projects. Some of the most challenging factors relate to history and path dependency, prevailing neoliberal agricultural policies and discourses, narrow markets, internal conflicts, lack of local capacity and unclear and insecure land tenure.
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Land acquisition for and local livelihood implications of biofuel development in Zimbabwe

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2016
Southern Africa
Land & Investments
land acquisitions
In recent years,proponents of 'green and clean fuel' have argued that the costs of overreliance on fossil fuels could be reduced through transition to biofuels such as bio-ethanol. Global biofuel discourses suggest that any transition to biofuel invariably results in significant benefits, including energy independence, job creation, development of agro-industrial centres at local level and high revenue generations for the state with minimum negative impacts on the environment.
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Local safety nets help people cope with shocks and stressors and prevent the deepening of poverty and vulnerability

Vulnerability, coping and adaptation within the context of climate change and HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Investigating strategies to strengthen livelihoods and food security and build resilience

Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2015
South Africa
Land & Food Security
food security
This policy brief draws on three sources of data from a study undertaken in Lesseyton in Lukanji Local Municipality and Willowvale in Mbashe Local Municipality, in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.The aim was to understand the vulnerability context of households in the two sites and how they coped with multiple shocks and stresses, with an emphasis on various types of safety nets. Methods included a survey that specifically targeted vulnerable households, data from several community workshops and in-depth life history interviews.
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Addressing local level food insecurity amongst small-holder communities in transition

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2016
South Africa
Land & Food Security
food security
Whilst most interpret food insecurity to mean an insufficient quantity of food (as measured by the number of calories consumed), the widely accepted FAO definition considers four dimensions of food security, namely quantity, quality or diversity, access and use. Provision of enough calories on a daily basis is not sufficient if the diet lacks diversity and appropriate balance to provide the full range of minerals and vitamins necessary for proper health,or if the food available is culturally unacceptable.