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  1. Library Resource
    Growing better cities cover image

    Urban Agriculture for sustainable development

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2006
    Global

    The United Nations predicts that over the next 25 years nearly all population growth will be in the cities of the developing world. At current rates, 60% of the world’s total population will live in cities by 2030. As the cities grow, so does the number of urban poor. Unemployment, hunger, and malnutrition are commonplace. In the big city, most of any cash income the poor might bring home goes to feeding themselves and staying alive; any food that does not have to be bought is a bonus.

  2. Library Resource

    Urban Agriculture for sustainable development

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2006
    Global

    The United Nations predicts that over the next 25 years nearly all population growth will be in the cities of the developing world. At current rates, 60% of the world’s total population will live in cities by 2030. As the cities grow, so does the number of urban poor. Unemployment, hunger, and malnutrition are commonplace. In the big city, most of any cash income the poor might bring home goes to feeding themselves and staying alive; any food that does not have to be bought is a bonus.

  3. Library Resource

    Research and Analysis from Africa, Asia, and Latin America

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2010
    Cameroon

    Drawing from field research in Cameroon, Ghana, Viet Nam, and the Amazon forests of Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru, this book explores the relationship between gender and land, revealing the workings of global capital and of people’s responses to it.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2007
    Global

    This book explores the meanings of gender justice and the practice of citizenship as shaped by context-specific histories, cultures and struggles. It presents a conceptual framework and provides four regional perspectives and a guideline for development programs. The section on Sub-Saharan Africa in particular focuses on the the definition of citizenship in the female experience as more than simply a formal relationship between the individual and the State, but also involving her position in a family, a community and an ethnic group.

  5. Library Resource
    StateofOpenData

    From the Book: State of Open Data

    Journal Articles & Books
    February, 2019
    Global

    Key points

    • Global availability of land ownership and land deals data is patchy, but, when available, it has been used by individual citizens, entrepreneurs, civil society, and journalists.

    • Over the last decade, a number of responsible data lessons have been learned. These lessons can provide guidance on how to balance transparency and privacy and on how to draw research conclusions from partial data.

  6. Library Resource
    an open up guide on land governance

    March 16th 2020 web‑workshop report

    Conference Papers & Reports
    March, 2020
    Global

    This report provides a summary of an online workshop on March 16th 2020, organised in place of a planned fringe meeting of the World Bank Land and Poverty Conference which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2-hour digital workshop brought together over 40 participants from across the world to discuss key data and key open data use-cases for land governance. This report is written based on workshop recordings and shared notes.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2011
    Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    In Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya, a decentralized approach to land administration promises more accessible dispute resolution and a better deal for women. Among the challenges however, are old social attitudes that pre-empt discussion about women’s right to control land. In Lira district, for example, in-laws and land-grabbers routinely chase widows off land. A “viciously vibrant land market” often means that women are swindled in Bugunda district.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 1999
  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2011
    Pakistan

    For decades, efforts to distribute agricultural land more equitably consistently excluded women. Then, a groundbreaking research project made women part of the discussion. It set the stage for a provincial campaign that for the first time in Pakistan’s history transferred land to poor women.

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2011
    Sub-Saharan Africa

    Women in many African countries have a legal right to
    own land, but this often means little in areas where
    “customary law” prevails. As a result, researchers in two
    countries have come to believe that women’s security
    of tenure depends as much on addressing social
    assumptions as on enacting legal reforms.

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