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Displaying 5056 - 5060 of 5074Enfoque Territorial para el Empoderamiento de las Mujeres Rurales en América Latina
Los documentos presentados se refieren a un estudio desarrollado en el marco de una iniciativa interagencial — Organización de las Naciones Unidas para las Mujeres (ONU-Mujeres), la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricoltura (FAO) — liderada por ONU-Mujeres acerca del Enfoque Territorial para el Empoderamiento de las Mujeres Rurales en América Latina y el Caribe, la misma que fue coordinada por el Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural (RIMISP).
Land Tenure and Food Production
Land tenure and food production
Factsheet produced by the FAO Food for the Cities multidisciplinary Initiative.
Comments on FAO Voluntary Guidelines
The VG exercise has been presented as a continuum from the ICARRD Conference and commitments by Member States; therefore there is scope for a comparative analysis of the two texts.
Gender and access to land
Gender issues are often ignored in projects that aim to improve land tenure and land administration. To support land administrators in governments and their counterparts in civil society, this guide shows where and why gender inclusion is important in projects. In order to help inform policy and implementation decisions, it identifies indicators for measuring the quality and quantity of access to land before, during and after an intervention and outlines recommended principles for gender inclusion in land administration projects.
Access to rural land and land administration after violent conflicts
Violent conflicts typically cause significant changes to land tenure and its administration. A widespread conflict
lasting for a number of years may result in successive waves of displacement of people. People may lose their land because they have been forcibly evicted, or they may abandon their land because of fear of violence. Those displaced are forced to seek land to settle, either within the country as Internally Displaced Persons, or externally as refugees. People living in safer areas may have lost access to their land with the