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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2014
    Panama

    Este documento analiza la creación de las comarcas indígenas en Panamá desde una perspectiva legal. 

  2. Library Resource
    Review of Selected Land Laws and the Governance of Tenure in the Philippines cover image

    Discussion Paper in the context of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure (VGGT)

    Journal Articles & Books
    October, 2014
    Philippines

    The Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT), was developed under the Committee on World Food Security as a result of collaboration among different groups of stakeholders – governments, civil society, private sector, academia. The VGGT is intended to provide a framework for responsible tenure governance that supports food security, poverty alleviation, sustainable resource use and environmental protection.

  3. Library Resource
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    Policy Papers & Briefs
    June, 2014
    Madagascar, Tanzania, Nicaragua, Philippines

    This case study focuses on the capacity of local communities to monitor biodiversity and resources in Madagascar, Nicaragua, Philippines and Tanzania. It makes a controlled comparison between local community monitoring and trained scientists’ monitoring and conclude that local and indigenous communities generate similar and equally good outputs as the trained scientists, and are much more cost efficient. The cases suggest that it is fully possible to build a cheap and effective MRV system based on community monitoring of Non-Carbon Benefits

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    Tanzania

    Through a range of local initiatives and collaborations developed over the past 15 years, Tanzania’s Yaeda Valley, the primary remaining home territory for the last community of Hadzabe hunter-gatherers, has become a model for community-based conservation. 

  5. Library Resource
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    Peer-reviewed publication
    October, 2014
    Ethiopia, Kenya, Mongolia, India

    Large-scale land acquisitions have increased in scale and pace due to changes in commodity markets, agricultural investment strategies, land prices, and a range of other policy and market forces. The areas most affected are the global “commons” – lands that local people traditionally use collectively — including much of the world’s forests, wetlands, and rangelands. In some cases land acquisition occurs with environmental objectives in sight – including the setting aside of land as protected areas for biodiversity conservation.

  6. Library Resource
    Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change cover image
    Videos
    August, 2014
    Global



     


  7. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2014
    Bolivia

     
    La ciudadanía boliviana acaba de darle un nuevo y rotundo si a la presidencia de Evo Morales, a través del voto. En ese marco, es oportuno reflexionar sobre algunas de las tensiones que la gestión del mandatario ha tenido en los años anteriores y presumiblemente seguirá enfrentando en los próximos. El autor del presente Diálogos expone las tensiones irresueltas entre la creciente explotación minera y los derechos campesinos indígenas.
     

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2014
    Bolivia

    El acceso de tierra y territorio para Lomerío remite a un histórico proceso de restitución territorial bajo la forma de propiedad colectiva o Tierra Comunitaria de Origen (TCO), que combina la lucha legal por políticas del Estado con una ardua resistencia y presión política- corporal que se expresa en las largas marchas desde los territorios indígenas hasta el centro del poder político estatal.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2014
    Colombia

    Se trata del caso de una comunidad indígena que se organiza para recuperar tierras en manos de terratenientes, basados en sus derechos ancestrales, y el reconocimiento de su territorio.

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2014
    Colombia

    Se tata de una comunidad indígena que es reconocida como Resguardo, y además, tiene titulado su territorio de manera colectiva, ejerciendo su derecho a la gestión.

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