Within the framework of implementing the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT), this paper summarizes the empirical findings from three sequentially related phases of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) VGGT programme, implemented as a pilot project in 2018. The methodology used relied first on context analysis of the critical aspects influencing and hindering women´s land rights.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksNovember, 2020Sierra Leone
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchNovember, 2019Sierra Leone
This booklet presents both successes and challenges faced by the people of Sierra Leone, whose lives and livelihoods are dependent on their legitimate rights to own, farm, fish, build or develop an area of land or water. The Voluntary Guidelines have helped these communities to turn their challenges into achievements.
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Library ResourceAgreements & ContractsNovember, 2012Sierra Leone
This is a Social Agreement posted on OpenLandContracts.org. It lists Oil palm or palm oils as the primary resource(s)
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksMarch, 2017Ghana, Sierra Leone
Since the end of the Cold War, natural resources have assumed an increasingly prominent role in security, conflict, and peace studies. Scholars and development practitioners alike view the development of strong institutions, which aim to domesticate global regulatory regimes that foster neoliberal principles like privatization, transparency, and accountability, as necessary to mitigate natural resource conflict in resource-rich states, as well as enhance opportunities for peace and social justice.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksAugust, 2019Liberia, Sierra Leone
This book argues that a set of persuasive narratives about the links between natural resource, armed conflict and peacebuilding have strongly influenced the natural resource interventions pursued by international peacebuilders. The author shows how international peacebuilders active in Liberia and Sierra Leone pursued a collective strategy to transform “conflict resources” into “peace resources” vis-à-vis a policy agenda that promoted “securitization” and “marketization” of natural resources.
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Volume 9 Issue 3
Peer-reviewed publicationMarch, 2020Sierra LeoneThe impacts of human activities on ecosystems are significantly increasing the rate of environmental change in the earth system, reshaping the global landscape. The rapid rate of environmental change is disrupting the ability of millions of people around the globe to live their everyday lives and maintain their human niche. Evidence suggests that we have entered (or created) a new epoch, the Anthropocene, which is defined as the period in which humans and human activities are the primary drivers of planetary change.
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Library ResourceLegislationMarch, 1884Sierra Leone
An Ordinance for giving Possession to the War Department of Land at Kortright Hill and Kennedy Ridge for the purpose of Constructing Barracks and a Rifle Range thereon
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Library ResourceLegislationNovember, 1921Sierra Leone
An Ordinance to empower the Governor in Council to provide, by Order, for Matters relating to Navigation in the Territorial Waters of the Colony
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Library ResourceLegislationFebruary, 1951Sierra Leone
An Ordinance to Provide for and regulate the Survey of Lands and the Licensing of Surveyors.
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Library ResourceLegislationApril, 1951Sierra Leone
An Ordinance to make provision against third party risks arising out of the use of motor vehicles.
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