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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2017
    Global

    The Portfolio Overview provides a global overview of DFID's programmes working on land issues and highlights lessons and trends emerging from major land programmes over recent years.

  2. Library Resource

    Workshop 9 Synthesis - World Forum On Access To Land

    Conference Papers & Reports
    January, 2017
    Global

    Research and direct witnessing by participants allow realization of the extent to which the situation of native/indigenous peoples and rural communities in general (peasant, forest dwelling, pastoral and fishing) is dramatic everywhere on the planet. 2.5 billion people, members of so called indigenous/native peoples and rural populations in general, live on lands that they share and use in common. However, only a fifth of these lands are registered as community territories by national governments.

  3. Library Resource

    Synthèse d'Atelier 9- Forum Mondial Sur L'Accès à La Terre

    Conference Papers & Reports
    January, 2017
    Global

    Les recherches et les témoignages directs des participants amènent à constater combien la situation des peuples autochtones/indigènes et des communautés rurales en général (paysannes, forestières, pastorales, de pêcheurs) est dramatique sur l’ensemble de la planète. 2,5 milliards de personnes, membres de peuples dits indigènes/autochtones et ruraux en général, vivent sur des terres qu’elles partagent et utilisent en commun. Pourtant, un cinquième seulement de ces terres est enregistré au titre de territoires communautaires par les gouvernements nationaux.

  4. Library Resource

    Resumen del Taller 9 - Foro Mondial Sobre Acceso A La Tierra

    Conference Papers & Reports
    January, 2017
    Global

    Las investigaciones y los testimonios directos de los participantes constataron cuán dramática es la situación de los pueblos indígenas/autóctonos y de las comunidades rurales en general (campesinas, forestales, pastoriles y de pescadores). Son 2,5 mil millones de personas las que pertenecen a estos pueblos, que viven en tierras compartidas y las usan de modo comunitario. Sin embargo, sólo una quinta parte de estas tierras está registrada como territorio comunitario por los gobiernos nacionales.

  5. Library Resource

    Can technology revolutionise efforts to secure land rights?

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2017
    Global

    This LEGEND bulletin considers the impact that new technology can have on documenting land rights and democratising access to land data around the world.

  6. Library Resource

    New Technologies for Mapping and Documenting Land Rights

    Conference Papers & Reports
    May, 2017
    Global

    This event, hosted at ODI in London, was convened to discuss the use of new technologies to map and document land rights, and their impact on land registration and administration, and pr

  7. Library Resource
    Global Urban Lectures: Geoffrey Payne - Improving urban tenure security and property rights cover image
    Training Resources & Tools
    Multimedia
    July, 2017
    Global

    Geoffrey Payne outlines five fundamental propositions that are key to his understanding of tenure issues and policy options.

    These are:

    1) That access to affordable land with adequate security of tenure and associated rights is a pre-condition for realising the goal of adequate housing and poverty reduction;

  8. Library Resource
    LEGEND Land Policy Bulletin 8

    Agribusiness and land rights: turning good intentions into tangible change

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2017
    Global

    This LEGEND bulletin explores the relationship between agribusiness and land rights. It features articles on the power of local engagement for financial investment, using technology for mapping rights, and catalysing private sector respect for community land rights.

  9. Library Resource
    Pathways Out of Poverty

    A guide to Legislation, Policy and Case Law

    Reports & Research
    June, 2017
    Global, Africa, South Africa

    Twenty years after the end of apartheid farm dwellers remain some of the most vulnerable people in South Africa, with many still facing extreme tenure insecurity and lacking access to adequate housing and basic services.2 The approximately three million black South Africans (6% of the population) who live on privately owned farms in formerly white commercial farming areas are among the poorest South Africans,3 whose vulnerability is exacerbated by their “socio-economic marginality and geographical isolation”.4

  10. Library Resource

    by the Global Working Group on Land- Friends of the Custodians Committee- September 2017

    Institutional & promotional materials
    September, 2017
    Global

    This bulletin is prepared by the Friends of the Custodians Committee. The objective is to share timely information about the SDG land indicator 1.4.2 and support its reclassification from Tier III to Tier I by October 2018. 

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