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1. Library Resource

   

   Survey to assess farmers’ economic perceptions, preferences and decision-making criteria relating to climate-smart soil protection & rehabilitation in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, India and Kenya

   Reports & Research

   September, 2016

   Kenya, Burkina Faso, Benin, India, Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa

   land management

   farmers

   Key findings
   

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   Free Prior and Informed Consent: An indigenous peoples’ right and a good practice for local communities

   Reports & Research

   September, 2016

   Bangladesh, Philippines, Sweden, Guatemala, Ecuador, Bolivia, India, Costa Rica, Finland, Norway, Mongolia

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   customary law

   customary tenure

   natural resources management

   land governance

   land tenure

   land rights

   Indigenous Peoples

   land tenure systems

   indigenous people's tenure

   <p>This <i>Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) Manual</i> is designed as a tool for project practitioners of a broad range of projects and programmes of any development organization, by providing information about the right to FPIC and how it can be implemented in six steps.</p> <p>In an FPIC process, the “how”, “when” and “with and by whom”, are as important as “what” is being proposed. For an FPIC process to be effective and result in consent or lack of it, the way in which the process is conducted is paramount.

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   Snakebite brings social and financial burden among Indian farmers

   Journal Articles & Books

   September, 2016

   India

   farmers

   farming systems

   rural development

   Snakebites are a crucial, yet underreported issue in many South Asian countries. In India, they kill some 50,000 people every year. However, the government has neglected the issue. Now, it’s time to seriously address this all but forgotten public health problem, our author maintains.

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   Custodians of the land, defenders of our future

   A new era of the global land rush

   Reports & Research

   September, 2016

   Australia, Global, Honduras, India, Mozambique, Peru, Sri Lanka

   Land & Investments

   common lands

   farmers

   farming systems

   gender equity in access to land

   indigenous peoples' land rights

   Indigenous Peoples

   land deals

   land grabbing

   land investments

   land rights

   pastoral land rights

   pastoralists

   tenure security

   women

   Since 2009, Oxfam and others have been raising the alarm about a great global land rush. Millions of hectares of land have been acquired by investors to meet rising demand for food and biofuels, or for speculation. This often happens at the expense of those who need the land most and are best placed to protect it: farmers, pastoralists, forest-dependent people, fisherfolk, and indigenous peoples.