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PMO nudges tribal affairs ministry to set deadline for granting land rights to tribals
11 September 2017
The Centre will soon set a cut off date for the states to grant tribals and other traditional forest dwellers legal title of the land they have traditionally used.
The sluggish pace at which land titles are being granted to tribals in some states, including the poll-bound Himachal Pradesh, has prompted the Prime Minister’s office to nudge the tribal affairs ministry to set the deadline.
Study finds land titles for indigenous peoples protects forests
10 April 2017
New research provides yet more evidence that granting indigenous and other local communities formal title to their traditional lands can be a boon to efforts to conserve forests.
Deforestation is responsible for as much as 10 percent of total global carbon emissions, which means that finding effective means of keeping forests standing is crucial to global efforts to halt climate change.
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Gender Inequality In Land Ownership In Zambia And The Contribution of Medici Land Governance In Securing Women’s Land Rights.
Multimedia
December, 2021
Zambia
This article highlights the gender inequality that currently exists in land ownership in Zambia. Zambia currently has two land tenure systems, both of which are relic of the colonial era. In both of these systems, majority of the land ownership is along patriarchal lines. Research has shown that the attainment of women's land rights can and could possibly contribute to the social and economic development of a country.
Webinar Report: The Role of Land Certification in Securing Women's Land Rights on Collective Lands
Reports & Research
December, 2019
Ethiopia
Uganda
Peru
Indonesia
Evidence shows that women can benefit from having individualised land rights formalized in their names. However, similar evidence is not available for formalization of land rights that are based on collective tenure. Studies have estimated that as much as 65 percent of the world’s land is held under customary, collective-tenure systems. Improving tenure security for land held collectively has been shown to improve resource management and to support self-determination of indigenous groups.
Global Urban Lectures: Geoffrey Payne - Improving urban tenure security and property rights
Training Resources & Tools
Multimedia
June, 2017
Global
Geoffrey Payne outlines five fundamental propositions that are key to his understanding of tenure issues and policy options.
These are:
1) That access to affordable land with adequate security of tenure and associated rights is a pre-condition for realising the goal of adequate housing and poverty reduction;
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Land titling is a form of privatization in that public assets are transferred to private families and individuals. Source: Land Titling: A Mode of Privatization with the Potential to Deepen Democracy. Bernadette Atuahene, Chicago-Kent College of Law Saint Louis University Law Journal (2006)
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