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Job Opportunity: Team Leader of the Mekong Region Land Governance Project

4 June 2020

Cambodia

Laos

Myanmar

Vietnam

Southern Asia

Land Equity International seeks an experienced and motivated Team Leader to join the Mekong Region Land Governance project team.

Land and resource investment consultations in the time of COVID-19: The hazards of pressing on

24 May 2020

Liberia

Colombia

Philippines

Companies are seeking to press ahead with investments on community lands or even take advantage of the pandemic to avoid the usual authorization requirements

ILC Latin America third regional conference

Latin America and the Caribbean

How do the economic, social and environmental functions of land resources relate to food sovereignty and well being?

How is territory an expression of identity and nation?

Blogs

New threats to resource rights and food security: COVID-19 impact and response

20 May 2020

Authors:

Dr. David Betge

Africa

Americas

Asia

Europe

The ongoing pandemic and the formal and informal responses to its spread have very direct impacts on the food and nutrition security of people in all parts of the world. Strong concerns have been voiced that the global health crisis could turn into a global food crisis.

How COVID-19 puts women’s housing, land, and property rights at risk

6 May 2020

Authors:

Ms. Victoria Stanley

Paul Prettitore

Colombia

Indonesia

Global

It’s time we break down the barriers to women’s access to land and protect women’s rights while the pandemic places them in a precarious situation

Not only is the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) having serious health impacts around the world, it also has the potential to significantly affect the housing, land, and property (HLP) of women and girls, particularly in low and middle-income countries.

Women at a disadvantage

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Events

Eviction response during and after COVID-19

27 May 2020

Location

Online

XX

Global

Organizers:

Global Protection Cluster Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility

Environmental Peacebuilding

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

UK Department for International Development

Landesa - Rural Development Institute

Land Portal Foundation

New America

LANDac

Women’s Housing and Land Rights and Covid-19

26 May 2020

Location

Online

United States

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US

Global

Organizers:

Landesa - Rural Development Institute

Land Portal Foundation

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

UK Department for International Development

New America

LANDac

Environmental Peacebuilding

Global Protection Cluster Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility

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Library

Extractive resource policy and civil conflict: Evidence from mining reform in the Philippines

Reports & Research

May 2020

Philippines

We estimate how a shift towards a more extractive resource policy, brought about by a regulatory reform of the mining sector, affected civil conflict in the Philippines. Our empirical strategy uses a difference-in-differences approach that compares provinces with and without mineral deposits before and after the reform.

Indonesia's land reform: Implications for local livelihoods and climate change

Peer-reviewed publication

November 2019

Indonesia

One of the main components of Indonesia's Just Economy policy is extensive and rapid land reform, which targets about 12% of the country's land area for redistribution to farmers and communities by 2019. Much of the reform is occurring on forest land.

Who governs here? Informal resource extraction, state enforcement, and conflict in Ghana

Reports & Research

September 2019

Western Africa

Ghana

Over the past two decades, “illegal” natural resource extraction has become a significant driver of environmental change and social conflict across the Global South. In response, numerous Sub-Saharan African states have engaged in governance reforms that heed calls to securitize – or, establish and consolidate state control over – natural resources.

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Organizations

Conservation International

A global conservation legacy

Conservation International works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity. Since our inception, we’ve helped to protect more than 6 million square kilometers (2.3 million square miles) of land and sea across more than 70 countries. Currently with offices in 29 countries and 2,000 partners worldwide, our reach is truly global.

Our Mission

Environmental Peacebuilding

Environmental peacebuilding integrates natural resource management in conflict prevention, mitigation, resolution, and recovery to build resilience in communities affected by conflict. Join our new Environmental Peacebuilding Association comprising researchers, practitioners, and decision makers to share experiences and lessons from managing natural resources in conflict-affected settings, access new research on the topic, and participate in events to support the growing network of professionals active in environmental peacebuilding.

Ford Foundation

We believe in the inherent dignity of all people. But around the world, too many people are excluded from the political, economic, and social institutions that shape their lives.

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM)

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) or Friends' of the Earth Malaysia, is an independent non-profit national organisation established in 1977. SAM is a registered body under the Societies Act 1966 and has been a member of the Friends of the Earth International since 1983.

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Companies are seeking to press ahead with investments on community lands or even take advantage of the pandemic to avoid the usual authorization requirements

Blogs

It’s time we break down the barriers to women’s access to land and protect women’s rights while the pandemic places them in a precarious situation

Events

Location

Location

Library

Organizations

A global conservation legacy

We believe in the inherent dignity of all people. But around the world, too many people are excluded from the political, economic, and social institutions that shape their lives.

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