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Community Organizations International Land Coalition
International Land Coalition
International Land Coalition
Acronym
ILC
Network

Location

Italy

The International Land Coalition (ILC) is a coalition of civil society and intergovernmental organizations promoting secure and equitable access to and control over land for poor women and men through advocacy, dialogue and capacity building.

Members:

Michael Taylor
Sandra Apaza
Elisabetta Cangelosi
Annalisa Mauro
Silvia Forno
Dunia Mennella
Rukshana Nanayakkara

Resources

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Rangelands: Making Rangelands More Secure in Cameroon: A Review of Good Practice

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Cameroon

Rangelands cover a surface area of more than 2 million hectares in Cameroon. Despite their relatively unpredictable climate and unproductive nature they provide a wide variety of goods and services including forage for livestock, habitat for wildlife, water and minerals, woody products, recreational services, nature conservation as well as acting as carbon sinks. Rangelands in Cameroon are predominantly grassland savanna with three types distinguishable: the Guinean savanna, Sudan savanna (also known as ‘derived montane grasslands’), and the Sahel savanna.

Incidencia ante la comisión CEDAW para posicionar los derechos a la tierra de las mujeres rurales

Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2017
Argentina

Con el fin de visibilizar la situación de las mujeres rurales en la región del Chaco argentino en torno a sus derechos y acceso a la tierra ante la Convención Internacional sobre la Eliminación de todas las formas de Discriminación contra la Mujer (CEDAW) de Naciones Unidas, diversas organizaciones de la sociedad civil trabajaron articuladamente en la elaboración de un informe alternativo que fue presentado en la sesión 65ª de la CEDAW en el 2016.

Las mujeres rurales en Guatemala

Reports & Research
October, 2017
Latin America and the Caribbean
Guatemala

Los Informes/País sobre la situación de las mujeres rurales, aportan datos fundamentales para tener en cuenta en cualquier tipo iniciativa que implique a las mujeres rurales, a la vez que proponen recomendaciones puntuales para la garantía de sus derechos. Los Informes son una propuesta de la Iniciativa Basada en Compromisos “Mujer Rural y Derecho a la Tierra” de la Coalición Internacional para el Acceso a la Tierra (ILC).

Gender and the commons: Pastoral women’s land rights and village land use planning in Tanzania: Experiences from the sustainable rangeland management project

Conference Papers & Reports
July, 2017
Tanzania
Africa
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa

In pastoral societies women face many challenges. Some describe these as a ‘double burden’ –
that is, as pastoralists and as women. However, pastoral women may obtain a significant degree
of protection from customary law even if customary institutions are male-dominated. In periods
of change (economic, social, political), this protection may be lost, and without protection from
statutory laws, women are in danger of “falling between two stools” (Adoko and Levine 2009). A