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Promoting sustainable land management through evidence-based decision support

A guide with country insights

Reports & Research
December, 2023
Global
Land Degradation & Tenure
spatial source
geographical information systems
sustainable development
land management
land degradation
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
This publication is a product of the GEF-funded FAO project ‘Decision Support for Mainstreaming and Scaling Out Sustainable Land Management (DS-SLM)’ which has developed a decision support framework (DSF). The DSF integrates experience from work with land degradation (LD) and SLM into an overall strategy for mainstreaming and scaling out SLM at different spatial and temporal scales. This publication serves as a step-by-step guide for the application and implementation of the DSF during planning, design and implementation of SLM interventions.
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The role of metadata and open data in the innovation cycle of land administration

Reports & Research
April, 2023
Global
land administration
land information systems
cadastres
geographical information systems
land register
land registration
cadastral administration
land governance
open data
This publication discusses the importance of open data as a tool for inclusive land governance. It introduces and describes open data, land governance functions, and metadata. It provides an in-depth looks at AGROVOC, the controlled vocabulary about agriculture and related sciences coordinated by FAO for more than 40 years, and LandVoc, a sub-vocabulary dedicated to the land sector. Using these two examples, the article explores why structured metadata is integral for open data to support innovation and improvements in land administration.
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Eroding Rivers, Eroding Livelihoods in Bangladesh

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Bangladesh
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land administration
land reform
environment
climate change
natural disasters
land tenure
state property
government
Bangladesh is the most densely populated country in the world. Its 144,000 square kilometres are home to an estimated 150 million people. About 45 percent (2004) of them live below the national poverty line and around 36 percent are living on US$ 1 per day. Agriculture contributes largely to the national economy, with 60 percent of employment provided by the agricultural sector (including crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry) in 1995/6. Rural poverty is highest but urban poverty is growing.
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INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO PROTECT WOMEN’S CUSTOMARY LAND RIGHTS IN SIERRA LEONE

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2020
Sierra Leone
Land & Gender
land administration
gender equity in access to land
land policies
agriculture
land rights
customary tenure
women
open data
Within the framework of implementing the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT), this paper summarizes the empirical findings from three sequentially related phases of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) VGGT programme, implemented as a pilot project in 2018. The methodology used relied first on context analysis of the critical aspects influencing and hindering women´s land rights.
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Gender and access to land

January, 2003
Land & Food Security
food security
land administration
land tenure
land
land access
rural development
This paper explores gender and issues of land access and administration in rural development. It argues that increasing social, economic and technological changes are requiring a re-examination of the institutional arrangements used to administer who has rights to what resources and under what conditions.
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Myanmar: Land Tenure Issues and the Impact on Rural Development

Reports & Research
April, 2015
Myanmar
land governance
land policies
customary law
customary tenure
land grabbing
land use
tenure security
land administration
land tenure
land law
land tenure systems
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
"Myanmar’s agricultural sector has for long suffered due to multiplicity of laws and regulations, deficient and degraded infrastructure, poor policies and planning, a chronic lack of credit, and an absence of tenure security for cultivators. These woes negate Myanmar’s bountiful natural endowments and immense agricultural potential, pushing its rural populace towards dire poverty.
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Implementation of Responsible Land Governance

A Land Information System for Sustainable Development in Turkana County, Kenya

Reports & Research
July, 2017
Kenya
VGGT
land administration
land information systems
sustainable development
communal territory
customary tenure
capacity development
This publication outlines the process undertaken by UN Habitat/GLTN and The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representation in Kenya to support the Ministry of Lands, Physical Planning and Urban Areas Management of the Turkana County Government-Kenya, in establishing a county Land Information Management System based on the Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM). The project was carried out in the context of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) program entitled, Support for Responsible Land and Natural Resource Governance of Communal Lands in Kenya.
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Responsible Governance of Land Tenure: an essential factor for the realization of the Right to Food

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay, Suriname, Northern America, United States of America, Asia, Tajikistan, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Nepal, Europe
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
VGGT
land administration
land governance
food security
land policies
land reform
land-use planning
land management
forest land
land use
land
natural resources management
land markets
land economics
land transfers
land tax
land rights
land tenure
land ownership
Land Tenure Working Paper 15. This publication brings to light the existing linkages between land tenure and the realization of the right to food. It points out that responsible governance of land requires the adoption of human rights-based approach in order to develop coherent and long term solutions to improve people’s livelihoods. The document presents the legal implications of the right to food at national level and provides a series of examples on the implementation of human rights principles and obligations into land tenure systems, policies, and institutional frameworks.
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Evaluation of the regional consultation of Francophone Africa

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Africa, Burundi, Madagascar, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Finland, France, Germany
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
VGGT
land registration
land governance
common lands
farmland
natural resources management
land markets
land tax
land ownership
landowners
This regional evaluation is based on discussions and outputs of the consultation meeting of Francophone Africa on the Voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land and other natural resources that was held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on 23-25 June 2010. The opinions expressed in this evaluation are those of the participants at the consultation meeting and do not necessarily reflect those of FAO.
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Land quality indicators and their use in sustainable agriculture and rural development

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1997
India, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Italy
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land
land suitability
sustainable land management
farming systems
land use
land administration
environment
fisheries
land management
rural development
natural resources management
water management