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Forest Conservation Project Empowers Community to Restore Mau Forest’s Glory

May, 2011
Kenya
property
forest conservation
USAID is assisting the Kenya Government (GoK) to restore the forest and watersheds in the Mau Forest Complex (MFC) through a $7 million, two-year project called ProMara (for the Mara). On March 25th 2011, USAID/Kenya’s Deputy Mission Director James Hope officially launched ProMara at the project’s new Mau Outreach Center (MOC), on the outskirts of the forest. The Mau Forest Complex has a history of illegal and irregular land allocations. In 2009, GoK acted on Mau Task Force recommendations to revoke questionable titles, ordering the eviction of "illegal" settlers from the MFC.
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Forest Inhabitants Should Have Ownership Rights to Encourage Conservation

June, 2013
Cameroon, Ghana
property
A recent article published by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) highlights the challenge of promoting forest management in areas that lack secure property rights, and the growing recognition that community forests need to be protected by the inhabitants themselves. Until inhabitants are secure in their right to the land and able to benefit from it, individuals will continue their rush to extract resources as quickly as possible for maximum personal benefit.
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G8 Takes Steps to Improve Land Governance, Enhance Transparency

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2013
Sudan, South Sudan, Namibia, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, France, Germany
VGGT
land governance
land
property
On June 18, the 2013 G8, under UK leadership, announced bold steps to strengthen land governance and improve transparency in land transactions. G8 leaders expressed support for and announced a series of concrete steps to accelerate implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National Food Security and the African Union Land Policy Initiative (LPI).
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Gender-Based Violence and Land Documentation & Administration in Zambia

Emerging Lessons from Implementation

Reports & Research
November, 2020
Zambia
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
rights in divorce
land governance
land inheritance rights
conflicts
land rights
land conflicts
property rights
marital property rights
This brief draws from USAID’s experience supporting systematic land documentation in Zambia to further advance awareness and knowledge about the relationship between gender-based violence (GBV) and the access, use, and control of land and property. It aims to inform current and future design and implementation of programs that promote land-based investment and land rights (particularly women’s land rights) by civil society organizations, other donors, and the private sector.

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Georgia land market development project

Reports & Research
January, 2005
Central Asia, Eastern Europe
Land & Investments
cadastres
land grabbing
rural development
A two-pronged agricultural land reform was devised in Georgia to move toward a market- oriented economy, one prong being the distribution of land parcels of up to 1.25 hectares in ownership to rural families (the “small parcel” approach), and the second being the leasing of the remaining state-owned land in larger allotments to physical and legal entities. The land reform program was intended to create a self-maintaining sector of subsistence-oriented small farmers and a market-oriented sector controlled by larger leaseholders.
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Global Donor Working Group on Land Officially Launched

Journal Articles & Books
August, 2013
Global
VGGT
land
property
On July 30, the Global Donor Working Group on Land was officially announced. The group is comprised of bilateral and multilateral donors and development agencies committed to improving coordination and information sharing to enhance the effectiveness of development programs that focus on land governance. The UK Department for International Development (DFID) will serve as the group’s inaugural chair. The donor working group is facilitated by the secretariat of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development.
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Global Farms Race: Opportunity to Improve Land Governance

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2013
Ethiopia
VGGT
land governance
land
property
By Dr. Gregory Myers, USAID Division Chief, Land Tenure and Property Rights On July 30, I had the pleasure of joining Landesa President Tim Hanstad at Global Washington in Seattle for a rich discussion of the Global Farms Race: Implications of Food Security, Poverty, and Foreign Investment. At the heart of this conversation are the rights of communities and individuals to decide for themselves how to use and profit from land. Do they possess clear and documented land and resource rights? Who has the power to make decisions?
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Global Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investments Endorsed

October, 2014
Global
property
This past Wednesday, the United Nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS) endorsed the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (commonly referred to as the RAI). The RAI provides much-needed principles to guide national regulations, global corporate social responsibility initiatives, and individual contracts around investment in agriculture.
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Global Support to Voluntary Guidelines Implementation

Journal Articles & Books
April, 2013
Switzerland
VGGT
property
By Dr. Gregory Myers, USAID Division Chief, Land Tenure and Property Rights
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Good Corporate Social Responsibility Addresses Land Issues

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2012
Vietnam
land
property
Many stakeholders are concerned about large-scale land acquisitions. Communities, civil society organizations, and donors are worried, but so too is the private sector. Here is a story from the CSR Asia website which notes the risks investors may face when they negotiate rights to use or purchase land.