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    We Belong to the Land

    10 Years of the Tenure Guidelines: States Must Address Rising Inequalities and Enact Agrarian Reform to Realize the Right to Land - International Statement

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2022
    Global
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    Land & Gender
    VGGT
    land equity
    gender equity
    poverty
    land reform
    agrarian reform
    land rights
    dispossession
    community land rights

    On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (Tenure Guidelines), we, organizations of small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, workers, urban communities and civil society, underline the critical importance of land, fisheries and forests for achieving social, environmental, gender and intergenerational justice, and demand that States, the FAO and the entire UN system comply with their obligations to realize the right to land.

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    Rural Livelihoods in Three Mountainous Regions of Tajikistan

    Journal Articles & Books
    September, 2007
    Tajikistan
    Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
    poverty
    land reform
    agrarian reform
    livestock
    agriculture
    migration

    This article uses data from household income surveys to look at income structures amongst households in three mountainous regions of Tajikistan: Gorno-Badakhshan, the Rasht Valley and Eastern Khatlon. The structure of incomes demonstrates the dominant role of subsistence agriculture in all three regions although commercial agriculture is important amongst better-off households in Rasht. Relationships between poverty and household characteristics including access to capital, demographic variables and income-generating activities were examined.

  6. Library Resource

    Land Reform in Tajikistan: Consequences for Tenure Security, Agricultural Productivity and Land Management Practices

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2008
    Tajikistan
    Land Degradation & Tenure
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    poverty
    land law
    land reform
    land management
    land degradation
    agriculture
    landlessness
    land tenure
    collective ownership
    private ownership
    tenure security

    This paper examines the impact of land reform on agricultural productivity in Tajikistan. Recent legislation allows farmers to obtain access to heritable land shares for private use, but reform has been geographically uneven. The break-up of state farms has occurred in some areas where agriculture has little to offer but, where high value crops are grown, land reform has hardly begun. In cases where collectivized farming persists and land has not been distributed, productivity remains low and individual households benefit little from farming.

  7. Library Resource
    Nepal: Land for Landless Peasants

    Nepal: Land for Landless Peasants

    Comments and Recommendations on Amendment to the Lands Act 1964

    Reports & Research
    October, 2019
    Nepal
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    development
    land law
    land reform
    land distribution
    agriculture
    land rights
    landlessness
    indigenous peoples' land rights
    women

    ABSTRACTED FROM OVERVIEW:


    The Lands Act 1964 was the first comprehensive piece of legislation which came into existence to pave the way for land reform. Key objectives of the Act were a) enhancing the standard of living of people dependent on land including through ensuring “equitable distribution of agricultural land”; and b) securing rapid economic development and wellbeing of the general population through attaining optimum agricultural growth.


  8. Library Resource

    Securing Africa’s land for shared prosperity: A program to scale up reforms and investments

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    Sub-Saharan Africa
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    land reform
    land tenure
    land tenure
    land tenure systems
    poverty
    sustainable development

    Few development challenges in Africa are as pressing and controversial as land ownership and its persistent gap between rich and poor communities. With a profound demographic shift in Africa from rural areas to the cities where half of all Africans will live by 2050, these gaps will become steadily more pronounced as governments and communities rise to the challenge of growing enough aff ordable nutritious food for all families to thrive on the continent. In some countries in the region, these gaps—allied as they are with high

  10. Library Resource

    Land Reform in the Era of Global Warming—Can Land Reforms Help Agriculture Be Climate-Smart?

    Volume 9 Issue 12

    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2020
    Norway, United States of America, Global
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    agricultural land management
    agriculture
    climate change
    land reform
    land tenure
    land tenure systems
    rural development
    sustainable development
    sustainable land management

    In an era of global warming, long-standing challenges for rural populations, including land inequality, poverty and food insecurity, risk being exacerbated by the effects of climate change. Innovative and effective approaches, such as Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA), are required to alleviate these environmental pressures without hampering efficiency.

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