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Land investments encompass a wide range of activity in forestry, agriculture, mining, industry, urban infrastructure, tourism, and conservation. Theoretical benefits see investment bringing capital, jobs, technology and knowledge transfer, and infrastructure development to a locality. Yet a wave of agribusiness plantation deals over the past 15 years has also highlighted the risks land investments can create, including land conflict and dispossession.

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Potato Value Chain: A Climate-Smart Agriculture Approach - An Extension Workers Manual

December, 2022
Uganda

The manual is designed to assist the reader with information about potato value chain and its management in times of climate change. It is comprised of five chapters with coordinated content as summarized below. Chapter one gives some background and a contextual aspect of potato production in Uganda. It also outlines the importance of potato in the food system. The section further highlights the growth characteristics of the crop and its different growth stages. It illustrates the common varieties grown

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Private sector tool to guide through manuals and best practices on responsible land-based investments

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This brochure provides an overview of the Global Programme Responsible Land Policy (GPRLP) implemented by the German Development Cooperation Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). It points out the relevance of land rights for reducing hunger and conflicts as well as the…

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January 2011 to January 2014

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To improve the quality and transparency of the land administration and property valuation systems.

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The Project Development Objective is to improve access to land use and value data, property rights data, and geospatial information through the Land Registry and Cadastre system modernization.

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The Sudan Rural Land and Governance (SRLG) project is a follow-on project to the Sudan Property Rights Program (SPRP), which assisted the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) to develop a draft land policy based on extensive public consultation and research, as well

January 2013 to January 2014

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To improve the quality and transparency of the land administration and property valuation systems.

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USAID’s Economic Prosperity Initiative (EPI) supported a working group to develop the Land Registration Strategy and Action Plan. The draft strategy addresses the need to establish policies that deal effectively with all types of owners who received land as part of

January 2012 to January 2017

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To improve the quality and transparency of the land administration and property valuation systems.

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The Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (GCAP), which is supported by USAID and the World Bank, has four components: (1) Strengthening investment promotion infrastructure, facilitating secure access to land. This component promotes a secure investment climate that

January 2015 to January 2020

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To improve the quality and transparency of the land administration and property valuation systems.

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The Land Governance Support Activity (LGSA) supports the establishment of more effective land governance systems, ready to implement comprehensive reforms to improve equitable access to land and security of tenure, so as to facilitate inclusive sustained growth and

January 2013 to December 2017

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To improve the quality and transparency of the land administration and property valuation systems.

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Achieving long-term food security while protecting biodiversity and other ecosystem services will require: sustainable intensification of production on existing lands, restoration of degraded lands, and converting to agriculture only those lands where potential

January 2016 to January 2018

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To improve the quality and transparency of the land administration and property valuation systems.

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Under the Evaluation, Research and Communications (ERC) project, USAID is collaborating with the private sector to road-test investment guidance such as the New Alliance’s Analytical Framework for Responsible Land-Based Investments in African Agriculture. The

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  Indigenous Peoples in Indonesia and many other countries are calling for political, civil and economic rights, recognition of their right to exist, as well as socio-ecological sovereignty over their territories. These issues were the focus of discussion at the commemoration of the 2024 edition…
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