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Securing Land Rights of Smallholder Farmers

The Secure Access to Land and Resources (SALaR) Project Experience in Laos, the Philippines, and Uganda

Reports & Research
August, 2021
Uganda, Laos, Philippines
Land & Food Security
land governance
poverty
natural resources
natural resources management
land rights
land access
land tenure
land tenure systems
property
property rights
farmers
smallholders
youth
women
This report summarizes the background, achievements and emerging outcomes of the Securing Access to Land and Resources (SALaR) project implemented towards improving land and natural resources tenure security for rural poor smallholder farmers, including women, men, youth and vulnerable groups in Uganda, Philippines and Laos.
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Identification of Property Boundaries Using an IFC-Based Cadastral Database

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, United Kingdom, Mexico, Malta, Malaysia, Panama, Romania, Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America
boundaries
property
Property boundaries have a significant importance in cadaster as they define the legal extent of the ownership rights. Among 3D data models, Industry Foundation Class (IFC) provides the potential capabilities for modelling property boundaries in a 3D environment. In some jurisdictions, such as Victoria, Australia, some property boundaries are assigned to the faces of building elements which are modelled as solids in IFC. In order to retrieve these property boundaries, boundary identification analysis should be performed, and faces of building elements should be extracted.
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Remembering Elinor Ostrom

Her Work and its Contribution to the Theory and Practice of Conservation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management

Reports & Research
April, 2014
Eritrea, Kenya, Mexico, Canada, Mongolia, India, Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
forest conservation
land conservation
sustainable land management
natural resources management
common rights
commons
communal ownership
common property
This special issue of Policy Matters focuses on the outreach and impact of Dr. Elinor Ostrom's groundbreaking research on common property (or commons) theory. Her work was instrumental in shaping contemporary analyses of resource management and conservation, especially at a local level. This collection of research papers, essays, commentaries, and songs build upon her work and provide case studies demonstrating the practical application of her theoretical contributions.
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How the Corona Crisis is Calling Into Question the "Right of the City”

Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2020
Kenya, India, Global
Urban Tenure
COVID-19
poverty
property law
urban areas
urban land
land rights
human settlements
land tenure
property
urban population
In late March, Indian Premier Narendra Modi imposed a three-week lockdown to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus. Since then, tens of thousands of migrant workers who had previously provided cheap labour in wealthy homes or on construction sites in the nation’s growing metropolises have been making their way back to their rural home regions.
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The role of indigenous communities in reducing climate change through sustainable land use practices

A Webinar Report

Reports & Research
September, 2019
Africa, Kenya, Latin America and the Caribbean, United States of America, Asia, Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
common lands
common rights
commons
indigenous peoples' land rights
indigenous peoples' lands
Indigenous Peoples
indigenous people's tenure
land rights
land use
property rights
sustainable development
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
The climate crisis demands urgent action, yet we live in a politically polarized and paralyzed world. As governments and other actors struggle over climate change, our environment is irreversibly changing. A United Nations report on the Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services revealed that three-quarters of the earth’s land-based environment has been significantly altered by human actions.
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Frontiers of Commodification: State Lands and Their Formalization

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Indonesia, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Eastern Africa, Middle Africa, South-Eastern Asia
Forest Tenure
property rights
natural resources management
land tenure
land management
forest land
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How do property rights reforms provide incentives for forest landscape restoration? Comparing evidence from Nepal, China and Ethiopia

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Nepal, China, Ethiopia, Eastern Africa, Eastern Asia, Southern Asia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
forestry
property rights
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Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction: Insights from Africa and Asia

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2012
Eastern Africa, Southern Asia, South-Eastern Asia
Land & Gender
Forest Tenure
property rights
natural resources management
land management
poverty
right of access
forest land
women
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Gender and land compendium of country studies

Journal Articles & Books
July, 2018
Dominica, Burkina Faso, Honduras, Belgium, Uzbekistan, South Africa, Lesotho, Uganda, Spain, Zimbabwe, Denmark, Germany, Tanzania, Zambia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Senegal, Italy, Brazil, Switzerland
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
property rights
customary law
customary tenure
land governance
Indigenous Peoples
land tenure
private ownership
land reform
land tenure systems
land ownership
indigenous people's tenure
From the outset, the development of agriculture has been strongly associated with women’s endeavour. In fact, women’s contribution to agriculture goes back to the origins of farming and the domestication of animals when the first human settlements were established more than 6 000 years ago. Over the years, the division of responsibilities and labour within households and communities tended to place farming and nutrition-related tasks under women’s domain. Nowadays, in many societies women continue to be mainly responsible for family food security and nutrition.
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Improving ways to record tenure rights

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2018
North Macedonia, United States of America, Sweden, Azerbaijan, United Kingdom, Ghana, Pakistan, Netherlands, Georgia, France, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Australia, Ireland, Finland, New Zealand, Rwanda, Kyrgyzstan, Albania, Russia, Armenia
land governance
property rights
customary law
land rights
land tenure
This guide is about making the recording or registration of tenure rights more relevant to people who hold those tenure rights, and particularly to people who are currently poorly served by systems to record or register tenure rights. It provides practical advice on ways to improve the recording of tenure rights, including by addressing barriers that prevent people from using recording systems.