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Land Governance and Gender

The Tenure-Gender Nexus in Land Management and Land Policy

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2021
Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Lesotho, Ghana, Mexico, China, Germany
Land & Gender
land administration
land policies
land management
This book delivers new conceptual and empirical studies surrounding the design and evaluation of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure and land-based gender concerns. It explores alternative approaches for land management and land tenure through international experiences. Part 1 covers Concepts, debates and perspectives on the governance and gender aspects of land. Part 2 focuses on Tenure-gender dimensions in land management, land administration and land policy.
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Memorial Parking Trees: Resilient Modular Design with Nature-Based Solutions in Vulnerable Urban Areas

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Canada, Chile, Spain, United Kingdom, Greece, Mexico, Panama, Philippines, United States of America, South Africa, Southern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
geographical information systems
land-use planning
sustainable land management
urban areas
Nature-based solutions (NbS) include all the landscape’s ecological components that have a function in the natural or urban ecosystem. Memorial Parking Trees (MPTs) are a new variant of a nature-based solution composed of a bioswale and a street tree allocated in the road, occupying a space that is sub-utilised by parked cars. This infill green practice can maximise the use of street trees in secondary streets and have multiple benefits in our communities. Using GIS mapping and methodology can support implementation in vulnerable neighbourhoods.
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Hybrid land tenure administration in Dunoon, South Africa

Land Use Policy Volume 90

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2020
French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Central African Republic, Southern Africa, South Africa, United Kingdom
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land registration
land use
land tenure
research
Hybrid land tenure administration occurs in a number of South Africa’s state-subsidised housing projects and in the informal settlements from which the housing beneficiaries tend to be drawn. Ownership is the tenure form in most of these housing projects. Under ownership the law only recognises registered land transactions. Non-government tenure administration in Dunoon was organised by street and area committees that are part of the local South African National Civics Association (SANCO) branch, a community based organisation (CBO).
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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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Standardizing land cover mapping for tsetse and trypanosomiasis decision making

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2019
Angola, Mozambique, Egypt, Botswana, Malawi, Rwanda, Mauritania, Somalia, Uganda, Mali, Burundi, Italy, Tanzania, Sudan, Congo, Senegal, Chad, Namibia, Niger, Eritrea, Kenya
land cover mapping
The habitat of tsetse fly (Glossina spp.) depends upon climatic conditions, host availability and land cover characteristics. In this paper, the Land Cover Classification System (LCCS), developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is proposed as a tool to harmonize land cover mapping exercises carried out in the context of tsetse and trypanosomiasis (T&T) research and control.
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Geospatial datasets and analyses for an environmental approach to African trypanosomiasis

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2019
Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Benin, Nigeria, United States of America, Kenya, Zambia, Somalia, Uganda, Mali, Ethiopia, Italy, Tanzania, Botswana, Ghana, Congo, Senegal, Guinea, Sudan, Cameroon, Central African Republic
land administration
geographical information systems
Geospatial datasets and analysis techniques based on geographic information systems (GIS) have become indispensable tools in the planning, implementation and evaluation of a wide range of development programmes, including actions addressing sustainable agriculture and rural development. The growing volume of spatially explicit environmental information, combined with the widening utilization of GIS, allows ecological and socioeconomic factors to be integrated more fully into the decision-making process, thus laying the foundation for a holistic approach to development.
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Securing customary land tenure in Africa: alternative approaches to the local recording and registration of land rights: report of workshop held at IIED

Reports & Research
January, 2000
Sub-Saharan Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Europe
land records
land registration
land
land rights
land tenure
Series of papers on land tenure issues including: Piloting local administration of records in Ekuthuleni, KwaZulu-Natal, by Donna Hornby (AFRA, South Africa)Ivory Coast’s Plan Foncier Rural: lessons from a pilot project to register customary rights, by Camilla Toulmin (IIED) Customary land identification and recording in Mozambique, by Chris Tanner Supporting local rights: will the centre let go?
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Eight Meeting on the East and Southern African Sub-Committee for Soil Correlation and Land Evaluation

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1990
Angola, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Malawi, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Yemen, Lesotho, Madagascar, Italy, Tanzania, Botswana, Netherlands, Sudan
land use mapping
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Private Sector Assessment for the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and other Natural Resources

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Africa, Namibia, Burkina Faso, Northern America, Asia, Jordan, Europe, Romania, Netherlands
Land & Investments
VGGT
land administration
land registration
land governance
land policies
land-use planning
natural resources management
land markets
land economics
land tax
land rights
land access
land ownership
FAO and its development partners are working together with countries to prepare Voluntary Guidelines that will provide practical guidance to states, the private sector, civil society, academia, donors and development specialists on the responsible governance of tenure. By setting out principles and internationally accepted standards for responsible practice and associated technical guidance, the Voluntary Guidelines will provide a framework and point of reference that stakeholders can use when developing their own policies and actions.
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Making the most of agricultural investment

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2010
Honduras, United States of America, Kenya, Mali, United Kingdom, Ghana, Papua New Guinea, Ethiopia, Colombia, Mozambique, Japan, South Africa, Mexico, Malaysia, Malawi, Madagascar, Italy, Netherlands, Argentina, India, Vietnam, Brazil
land governance
farmland
land use
land administration
land economics
land rights
land access
right of access
land management
land tenure
landowners
land ownership
land
Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest in agricultural investment. In many cases, this new momentum has translated into large-scale acquisitions of farmland in lower- and middle-income countries. Partly as a result of sustained media attention, these acquisitions have triggered lively if polarised debates about “land grabbing”. Less attention has been paid, however, to alternative ways of structuring agricultural investments that do not involve large-scale land acquisitions.