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  1. Library Resource
    governing land

    A technical guide to support the achievement of responsible gender-equitable governance of land tenure

    Manuals & Guidelines
    January, 2013
    Global

    The guide focuses on equity and on how land tenure can be governed in ways that address the different needs and priorities of women and men. It moves away from long-standing debates about gender equality in access to land, towards the mainstreaming of gender issues to achieve more gender-equitable participation in the processes and institutions that underlie all decision-making about land.

  2. Library Resource
    GENDER TOOLKIT
    Training Resources & Tools
    April, 2013
    Global

    This toolkit aims to give civil society organizations the tools they need to address gender justice issues in their work. The toolkit contains sections on:


    1. Gender Concepts (terms, frameworks and key debates);
    2. Gender Action Links (topical briefings and action resources);
    3. Gender Tools (checklists, indicators and methodologies for gender analysis in specific sectors); and
    4. Gender Data (links to sex-disaggregated databases).
  3. Library Resource
    CEDAW Handbook COVER
    Manuals & Guidelines
    April, 2013
    Global

    This handbook is an introduction to the human rights of indigenous women. It provides some detail on the CEDAW as the only instrument specifically for women. It also provides a brief overview of the other available human rights mechanisms.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2013
    Global, Africa

    Across the developing world, rural women suffer widespread gender-based discrimination in laws, customs and practices cause severe inequalities in their ability to access, control, own and use land and limit their participation in decision-making at all levels of land governance.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2014
    Ghana

    This survey was planned and executed in order to address key policy and research questions which have arisen as priorities for the research agenda, but for which there has been a lingering data gap. Successful commercialization of farming enterprises and f

  6. Library Resource
    Conflicts over land
    Reports & Research
    January, 2014
    Asia

    This briefing paper makes the case for proactive business engagement in respecting land rights and ensuring legal, fair and inclusive practices on land use, access to natural resources and equitable development opportunities. It outlines key challenges, provides an overview of existing instruments that can help companies address issues related to land, and points to practical entry points for improved business practices.

  7. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2014
    Northern America

    Food First Backgrounder, Spring 2014, Vol. 20, No. 1


    Introduction: Land, Race and the Agrarian Crisis


    The disastrous effects of widespread land grabbing and land concentration sweeping the globe do not affect all farmers equally. The degree of vulnerability to these threats is highest for smallholders, women and people of color—the ones who grow, harvest, process and prepare most of the world’s food.


  8. Library Resource

    Empirical evidence from Ondo and Kano states

    Reports & Research
    January, 2014
    Nigeria

    In line with the conventional view that customary land rights impede agricultural development, the traditional tenure system in Nigeria has been perceived to obstruct the achievement of efficient development and agricultural transformation. This led to the Land Use Act (LUA) of 1978.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2014
    Global

    "For millions of people living in the world’s poorest countries, access to land is a matter not of wealth, but of survival, identity and belonging. Most of the 1.4 billion people earning less than US$1.25 a day live in rural areas and depend largely on agriculture for their livelihoods, while an estimated 2.5 billion people are involved in full- or part-time smallholder agriculture.

  10. Library Resource

    Land access and labor and income-generating opportunities

    Reports & Research
    January, 2013
    Africa

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