Land Watch Asia

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https://landwatchasia.wordpress.com/

Land Watch Asia (LWA) is a regional campaign to ensure that access to land, agrarian reform, and sustainable development for the rural poor are addressed in national and regional development agenda. The campaign involves civil society organizations in seven countries – Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and the Philippines. It aims to take stock of significant changes in land policy; undertake strategic national and regional advocacy activities on access to land; jointly develop approaches and tools; and encourage the sharing of experiences of coalition-building and actions on land rights issues.

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Land Ownership and the Journey to Self-Determination

Informes e investigaciones

Diciembre 2016

Sri Lanka

This paper is an abridged version of an earlier scoping study entitled Sri Lanka Country Report: Land Watch Asia Study prepared in 2010 by the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement through the support of the International Land Coalition (ILC).

Striking a balance: Agricultural interests vis-à-vis housing concerns in the National Land Use Act

Documentos de política y resúmenes

Diciembre 2015

Filipinas

This publication is a lobby material to advocate the passage of the National Land Use Act. It examines the seemingly conflicted need for food and housing in the country. The writer – Carmina Flores-Obanil – describes that from 1982 to 1997 massive land conversions in the urban fringes of Bulacan and Cavite attribute to policies encouraging the expansion of industries in rural areas.

Land, property and tenurial rights in a changing coastal environment

Documentos de política y resúmenes

Diciembre 2015

Filipinas

This publication is a lobby material to advocate the passage of the National Land Use Act. It shows the adverse effects of the lack of land use planning in coastal communities especially in the advent of a natural disaster. This publication features the Typhoon Haiyan-affected coastal communities in the Visayas Region of the Philippines as examples.

Land use and development in Northern Mindanao

Documentos de política y resúmenes

Diciembre 2015

Filipinas

This publication is a lobby material to advocate the passage of the National Land Use Act (NLUA). It highlights the ambiguous land policies and processes as factors to the degradation of watershed and protected areas in Cagayan de Oro and Northern Mindanao Region of the Philippines, resulting to extreme typhoon disasters.

Land grab issue brief: Upholding Farmers’ Land Rights against Land Grabs

Documentos de política y resúmenes

Agosto 2015

Asia

This issue brief highlights the roots of land grabbing experienced in the aggrieved communities in seven countries. It also features the importance of advanced smallholder agriculture and local food industry, broadened land rights movement, and strengthened land governance in promoting the rights of the farmers.

Asian People’s Land Rights Tribunal: Land Rights are Human Rights

Documentos de conferencias e informes

Junio 2015

Asia

This publication contains the struggles of four cases presented by the aggrieved communities in Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, and deliberated by an international panel of experts during the Asian People’s Land Rights Tribunal. These cases have all exhausted various grievance mechanisms, seeking justice for the violations committed on people’s land and human rights.

Philippine agricultural lands: Are they worth protecting?

Documentos de política y resúmenes

Enero 2015

Filipinas

This publication is a lobby material to advocate the passage of the National Land Use Act. As one of the major outputs of the high level experts forum held last June 4, 2015, this abridged version of the proceedings highlights the experts’ discussion, answering the following key questions related to agriculture:

Lok Niti: Women stake their claim to land

Informes e investigaciones

Enero 2015

Asia

Bangladesh

Camboya

India

Indonesia

Nepal

Pakistán

Filipinas

This publication is a collection of scoping studies on women and land in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and Philippines.

Land Watch Asia Resources

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