land rights

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land rights

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No Climate Transition Without Securing Land Rights

2 June 2022

Authors:

Alexander Müller

Mr. Jes Weigelt

Global

The 15th session of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), is taking place in Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire, from 9 to 20 May 2022. The theme: “Land, Life. Legacy: From scarcity to prosperity.” “We are faced with a crucial choice,” Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told participants: “We can either reap the benefits of land restoration now or continue on the disastrous path that has led us to the triple planetary crisis of climate, biodiversity and pollution”

New challenges for women’s land rights in Africa

11 November 2019

Africa

Second in a series of blog posts on the release of the 2019 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) at the ReSAKSS Annual Conference in Lomé, Togo, Nov. 11-13.

What landmark Kwazulu-Natal court ruling means for land reform in South Africa

22 June 2021

Authors:

Prof. Ben Cousins

South Africa

By Ben Cousins, Emeritus Professor, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape

* This article originally appeared in the The Conversation on 22 June 2021

Customary law and institutions: Comparative perspectives from Eswatini and Lesotho

6 August 2021

Authors:

Mr. Sean Johnson

Lesotho

Eswatini

By Sean Johnson, land administration specialist at COWI, Swaziland

* This piece was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa

When South African law promotes unlawful land deals…

6 August 2021

Authors:

Monica de Souza Louw

South Africa

By Monica de Souza Louw, Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC), University of Cape Town

* This piece was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa

Women’s Tenure Rights and Land Reform in Angola

6 August 2021

Authors:

Allan Cain

Angola

Southern Africa

By Allan Cain, Development Workshop Angola

* This article was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa

Land rights for small producers: a critical solution to the world's food systems

16 July 2021

Authors:

Dr. Agnes M. Kalibata

Dr. Michael Taylor

Global

Our food systems are in urgent need of transformation, as humanity faces one of our biggest challenges yet; feeding a future population of 10 billion people with safe and nutritious food while keeping a healthy planet. Our food system has the power to tip the scales and transform the future of our planet and humankind.

To secure equal rights to land, bring men and women together

13 July 2021

Authors:

Dr. Elizabeth Daley

Tanzania

Mongolia

Global

There is an underlying tension in the land rights movement that is rarely addressed head on, which is the perception that securing women’s land rights threatens community land rights. Community land rights are typically held by indigenous people, small-scale and subsistence farmers, pastoralists, herders and many other groups who are directly dependent on land for their livelihoods but whose land tenure is often the most precarious.

How Community & Women’s Land Rights Relate To Climate and COVID-19 Vulnerability and Resilience

2 July 2021

Authors:

Danny Wijnhoud

Kenya

Uganda

Netherlands

Global

This session zoomed in on the local situation and challenges faced by grassroots communities and women in some low-Income countries. It provided an overview of support provided by Civil Society organizations (and governments) facilitating communities, women in particular, to step up the efforts to strengthen their land rights and to generate resilience in face of the climate and COVID-19 challenges they are facing.

More secure land tenure provides much better opportunities to face climate and COVID-19 challenges by investing in high biodiversity local food & income systems.

Helping indigenous communities secure land rights in Nepal

18 December 2020

Nepal

Written by Jagat Deuja and Rachel Knight for IIED and CSRC. Originally posted at: https://www.iied.org/helping-indigenous-communities-secure-land-rights-nepal

Main photo: Young 'social mobilisers' interviewed more than 2,700 landless or untenanted families and gathered the data that was needed for the government to register their tenure (Photo: copyright Kumar Thapa, CSRC)

Land tenure insecurity in Zimbabwe exposes rural communities to intimidation and arbitrary evictions

6 November 2020

Zimbabwe

By Owen Dhliwayo and Refiloe Joala

History of land rights movement in Nepal

26 December 2020

Nepal

Article written by Radha Krishna Khadka for Online Khabar, originally posted at: https://english.onlinekhabar.com/history-of-land-rights-movement-in-nepal.html

Photo: A rally organised in Surkhet district headquarters Birendranagar demanding establishment Organised Settlement Commission on September 07, 2017

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