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Multi-Level Policy Dialogues, Processes, and Actions: Challenges and Opportunities for National REDD+ Safeguards Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV)

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2014
Indonesia, Brazil
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land governance
REDD+ social safeguards have gained increasing attention in numerous forums. This paper reviews the evolution of multi-level policy dialogues, processes, and actions related to REDD+ social safeguards (e.g., Cancun Safeguards 1–5) among policy makers, civil society organizations, and within the media in Brazil, Indonesia and Tanzania, three countries with well advanced REDD+ programs. We find that progress on core aspects of social safeguards is uneven across the three countries. Brazil is by far the most advanced having drafted a REDD+ social safeguards policy.
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Tenure Security and Land Appropriation under Changing Environmental Governance in Lowland Bolivia and Pará

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2015
Brazil
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land governance
Appropriation of public lands associated with agricultural frontier expansion is a longstanding occurrence in the Amazon that has resulted in a highly skewed land-tenure structure in spite of recent state efforts to recognize tenure rights of indigenous people and smallholders living in or nearby forests. Growing concerns to reduce environmental impacts from agricultural development have motivated state governments to place greater attention on sustainable land management and forest conservation.
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Chile Civil Union Agreement

January, 2015
Chile
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
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Gobernanza responsable de la tenencia de la tierra

Aplicabilidad en Bolivia y Perú de las ´Directrices voluntarias sobre la governanza responsable de la tenencia de la tierra, la pesca y los bosques en el contexto de la seguridad alimentaria nacional´

Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2014
Bolivia, Peru
Land & Food Security
VGGT
food security
fisheries
land tenure
Las Directrices Voluntarias sobre la Gobernanza responsable de la tenencia de la tierra, la pesca y los bosques –pese a las críticas por su carácter transaccional y no vinculante– se constituyen en una importante herramienta que orienta y genera información sobre las prácticas internacionalmente aceptadas para los sistemas que regulan los derechos de uso, gestión y control de la tierra, la pesca y los bosques.
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Un título de propiedad no basta

Por una restitución sostenible de tierras en Colombia

Reports & Research
December, 2014
Colombia
Land in post-conflict settings
post-conflict settings
land restoration
Este informe examina los progresos que han realizado las autoridades para aplicar los elementos de restitución de tierras de la Ley 1448 con el fin de garantizar el derecho de los reclamantes de tierras a un recurso efectivo. Su objetivo es situar el actual proceso de restitución de tierras en el contexto de los intentos previos de los gobiernos colombianos de resolver los problemas asociados a la desigual distribución de la tierra y a la pobreza rural.
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Entre a agroecologia e a fumicultura: uma etnografia sobre trabalho na terra, cosmologias e pertencimentos entre camponeses pomeranos

Journal Articles & Books
August, 2014
South America, Brazil
Land & Food Security
agriculture
families
No mundo contemporâneo, o tema da alimentação “ecológica” tem sido cada vez mais discutido. Muitos estudos enfatizam aspectos técnicos e econômicos e colocam a produção agroecológica como oposta àquela convencional, que faz uso intensivo de agroquímicos. Este trabalho apresenta a trajetória de uma família de agricultores ecológicos – camponeses de origem pomerana – inseridos em uma comunidade em que a maior parte dos agricultores trabalha com a produção de fumo, em uma localidade rural do município de São Lourenço do Sul, no estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
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Empresas Mineras y Pueblos Indígenas en Chile

Buenas prácticas para la construcción de relaciones de beneficio mutuo

Training Resources & Tools
February, 2014
Chile
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
mining
responsible investment
land conflicts
indigenous peoples' land rights
El propósito de esta publicación es identificar buenas prácticas en proyectos mineros que afectan a comunidades indígenas y compartir las lecciones aprendidas con empresas mineras, entidades públicas con injerencia en el sector, organizaciones indígenas y otras organizaciones de la sociedad civil, y el público en general.
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Does Land Tenure Insecurity Drive Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?

Reports & Research
September, 2014
Brazil, United States of America
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
land
land tenure
tenure insecurity
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the detrimental impact of land tenure insecurity on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. It is related to recent controversies about the detrimental impact of land laws on deforestation, which seem to legitimize land encroachments. The latter is mainly the result of land tenure insecurity which is a key characteristic of this region and results from a long history of interactions between rural social unrest and land reforms or land laws. A simple model is developed where strategic interactions between farmers lead to excessive deforestation.
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Bioenergy and Global Land Use Change

Reports & Research
May, 2014
Norway, South America, Northern America, Asia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land
land use
land use change
This is the first paper that estimates the global land use change impact of growth of the bioenergy sector. Applying time-series analytical mechanisms to fuel, biofuel and agricultural commodity prices and production, we estimate the long-rung relationship between energy prices, bioenergy production and the global land use change. Our results suggest that rising energy prices and bioenergy production significantly contribute to the global land use change both through the direct and indirect land use change impact.
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Climate Change and Risk Management: Vulnerability analysis of coastal marine infrastructures in Latin America.

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
South America, Central America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land-use planning
The objective of the study is to provide methodological instruments to governments in Latin America to facilitate the identification of the vulnerability of the physical infrastructure of coastal marine areas to climate change and facilitate the identification of adaptation options. It sets out the main ideas covered, that takes the experiences, lessons learned and best practices in the beneficiary countries of the EUROCLIMA programme in order to estimate and reduce the vulnerability of coastal marine infrastructures in the face of climate change.