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2014 CSO Land Reform Monitoring: Towards an Accountable Governance on Land in Asia

Reports & Research
January, 2015
Asia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines
land governance
land reform
This publication is a collection of 2014 CSO land reform monitoring reports on the status of land tenure and access to land from seven Asian countries (Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and the Philippines). The book also reflects the recent expansion of the monitoring initiative to a ridge-to-reef framework providing a more holistic approach in addressing ancestral lands, rural lands, and marine resource concerns.
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A Regional Workshop on Land Monitoring Initiatives: Proceedings

Reports & Research
April, 2015
Asia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Vietnam
development agencies
land access
land reform
tenure security
This publication contains the major highlights of the Land Watch Asia's "Regional Workshop on Land Monitoring Initiatives: Towards an Accountable Governance on Land" held in Manila, Philippines on 21-22 April 2015. These include the land monitoring country reports (in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and Philippines) prepared by Land Watch Asia campaign using the Land Reform Monitoring Framework, which was its landmark contribution towards assessing land issues across the region.
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Foro de la Tierra América Latina y el Caribe 2014

Multimedia
December, 2015
Nicaragua
Land & Gender
land access
Video del Foro de la Tierra América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) 2014, organizado por la International Land Coalition (ALC), Nitlapan-UCA en colaboración con Trocaire en Managua, Nicaragua el 31 de octubre bajo el tema "Gobernanza de la tierra, territorialidad y agricultura familiar".
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Importance of livestock routes for local, national and regional development: Their mapping, servicing and protection

Reports & Research
September, 2015
Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sudan, Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
pastoral lands
rangelands
pastoralists
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Karamoja Sub region Uganda

Communal Land Associations claim compensations for investments in their territory

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2016
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
advocacy
communal ownership
community land rights
compulsory acquisitions
customary law
land access
Since Karamoja is richly endowed with gold, marble, iron ore, tungsten, limestone, oil and gas, it has attracted many investors, in particular since the protracted armed conflicts in northern Uganda started fading away. Approximately 1 7,000 km2 or 62% of the total land area of Karamoja has been licensed for mineral exploration and exploitation (Kabiswa, 2014).
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La tierra: un recurso en disputa. Instituciones, actores y procesos en Argentina, Colombia, Perú y Venezuela

Reports & Research
May, 2015
Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela
Land Conflicts
development agencies
land access
land conflicts
land dispute
land policies
land tenure
land tenure systems
La publicación ofrece una amplia reflexión sobre las nuevas presiones sobre la tierra y los territorios en cuatro países de la región, e indaga sobre sus impactos en procesos de larga data.

Se presenta a los actores directamente afectados o beneficiados por las relaciones de poder que se generan en el ámbito rural en la actualidad.

Se destaca que los países estudiados cuentan con marcos legales e institucionales para el gobierno de la tierra que han sido impulsados o reformados según el interés de las clases dominantes.
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Land grab issue brief: Upholding Farmers’ Land Rights against Land Grabs

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2015
Asia
Land & Investments
extractive industries
food security
land grabbing
tenure security
This issue brief highlights the roots of land grabbing experienced in the aggrieved communities in seven countries. It also features the importance of advanced smallholder agriculture and local food industry, broadened land rights movement, and strengthened land governance in promoting the rights of the farmers.
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Land use and development in Northern Mindanao

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
Philippines
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land degradation
land use
land-use planning
sustainable development
sustainable land use
This publication is a lobby material to advocate the passage of the National Land Use Act (NLUA). It highlights the ambiguous land policies and processes as factors to the degradation of watershed and protected areas in Cagayan de Oro and Northern Mindanao Region of the Philippines, resulting to extreme typhoon disasters. Thus, this paper explains how the NLUA will address such policy issues from the local development perspective of Northern Mindanao.
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Land, property and tenurial rights in a changing coastal environment

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
Philippines
environment
formal tenure
land law
land policies
land tenure systems
land use
property
sustainable land use
This publication is a lobby material to advocate the passage of the National Land Use Act. It shows the adverse effects of the lack of land use planning in coastal communities especially in the advent of a natural disaster. This publication features the Typhoon Haiyan-affected coastal communities in the Visayas Region of the Philippines as examples. It also recommends how this dismal situation could be lessened in the future.
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Monitoreo al presupuesto público Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alimentación (MAGA) y el Fondo de Tierras (FONTIERRRAS) 2015. “Con énfasis al presupuesto dirigido a las mujeres”

Manuals & Guidelines
December, 2015
Guatemala
Land & Gender
Este estudio principalmente tiene el énfasis en el presupuesto destinado para las mujeres. Esperando que esté pueda contribuir a las organizaciones campesinas y de mujeres en el análisis, y propuestas para transformar las condiciones de vida de las poblaciones más vulneradas en el país, especialmente quienes habitan el área rural, donde hombres y mujeres aportan cada día con la producción y el desarrollo agrícola.