A large share of the world's rural population depends on using land to feed themselves. Commercial agriculture and forestry investments are placing growing pressure on land as a resource. Especially when state capacities to steer and monitor land-based investments are low, this can lead to increasing pressure on natural resources, land-use conflicts and in the worst cases to forced expropriation and displacement. These factors can have a negative impact on livelihood and food security in rural areas, particularly when land rights are insecure.
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Library ResourceMultimediaMay, 2023Ethiopia, Uganda, Laos
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Library ResourceVideosJuly, 2021Ethiopia
This summary provides an overvew of LIFTs impact study on how tenure security translates into increased investments, productivity, and incomes. It presents evidence on the impact of secondary level land certification (SLLC) on rural farmers in Ethiopia.
This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme. For more information, please check: https://landportal.org/community/projects/land-investment-transformation...
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Library ResourceVideosJune, 2015Ethiopia
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Library ResourceVideosJanuary, 2019Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Teaser for ZOA's new land rights guidelines developed with input from many of our peers and partners, based on the work done by many others in the field and supported by the Knowledge Management Fund (KMF).
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2003Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa
A crops specialist and a livestock specialist from the Matopos research station describe technologies being developed to support smallholder farmers experiencing drought
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Library ResourceMultimediaMay, 2011Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
In early May 2011, people working on the Nile Basin Development Challenge (http://nilebdc.org) met in Addis Ababa in a 'science and reflection workshop'. In this session 4 of the workshop, participants discussed what-how-why of some of the different aspects of water and productivity across Nile projects. This video contains video reports from the group discussions
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001Malawi, Southern Africa, Africa
As cities expand to cover farmland with roads and buildings, the conflict between traditional land rights, and modern systems of ownership and distribution become very clear. This report comes from Blantyre in Malawi, where city authorities now charge rent on land that was once freely owned.
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Library ResourceMultimediaOctober, 2006Kenya, Africa, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2003Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa
A senior agricultural extension officer for Matabeleland North province in Zimbabwe describes how the extension service is helping farmers to cope with less reliable rainfall.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001Kenya, Eastern Africa, Africa
Mr. Situma Mwichebe talking to Ann Mikia about the reality of water rights in Kenya.
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