For more than five years, the Women’s Land Tenure Security (WOLTS) Project has been investigating the intersection of gender and land relations in mining-affected pastoralist communities in Mongolia and Tanzania. The aim has been to develop a methodology for long-term community engagement and capacity building to protect and support the land rights of all vulnerable people – thus to fully mainstream attention to gender equity in land tenure governance within a framework that would facilitate improvements in community land rights across the board.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJune, 2021Tanzania, Mongolia
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsMarch, 2019Mongolia
This paper shares findings from new research on gender and land in a pastoralist community in central- western Mongolia, with a complex structure of investment and operations in gold mining. The paper examines what has been learned from the research about people's coping strategies in the face of social and environmental change, specifically in the context of the development of mining since the transition from socialism and in a relatively isolated area.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016Namibia, Ghana, Peru, Kyrgyzstan, China, Global
GOOD PRACTICES AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM SIX GLOBAL CASE STUDIES
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2018Mongolia
Mokoro’s practical and action-oriented long-term strategic research project, the Women’s Land Tenure Security Project (WOLTS), is piloting its methodology through a ‘Study on the threats to women’s land tenure security in Mongolia and Tanzania’.
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Library ResourceRegulationsChina, Eastern Asia, Asia
The purpose of these Regulations is to regulate the contracted management of rural land and guarantee the legitimate rights and interests of the contracting parties.
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Library ResourceRegulationsChina, Eastern Asia, Asia
These Regulations have been formulated for the purpose of stabilizing and perfecting the two-level operation system, which is based on the responsibility system of contracting by households supplemented by unified management, protecting the legal rights and interests of the parties of the contracting of rural land, so as to improve the development of agriculture and the rural economy and stabilize the rural areas.
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Library ResourceRegulationsChina, Eastern Asia, Asia
These Measures, consisting of 31 Articles, are formulated in accordance with the Law on the Rural Land Contracting. A member of a rural collective economic organization is entitled to contract the rural land of such rural collective economic organization. The Contractor shall obtain the right to land contractual management after the contract enters into effect. The right to land contractual management obtained through household contract may, according to law, be circulated by subcontracting, leasing, exchanging, transferring or other means.
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Library ResourceRegulationsChina, Eastern Asia, Asia
The purpose of these Regulations is to stabilize and improve the contracted management system of rural land, and effectively protect the rights and interests of farmers', and promote the development of agriculture, rural economy and rural social stability.
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Library ResourceRegulationsChina, Eastern Asia, Asia
These Measures have been formulated in accordance with the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Contracting of Rural Land.
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Library Resource
The urgency of securing community land rights in a turbulent world
Reports & ResearchFebruary, 2017Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, China, Indonesia, IndiaAmid the realities of major political turbulence, there was growing recognition in 2016 that the land rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities are key to ensuring peace and prosperity, economic development, sound investment, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Despite equivocation by governments, a critical mass of influential investors and companies now recognize the market rationale for respecting community land rights.
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