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Secure Land Tenure Rights for All: Key Condition for Sustainable Development

Successful Approaches and Their Impacts

Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2019
Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda, Namibia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Brazil, Peru, Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Eastern Europe, Global
cadastral administration
community land rights
customary tenure
displacement
eviction
gender equity in access to land
informal settlements
land registration
land rights
land tenure systems
private ownership
public ownership
tenure security
tenure regularization
The aim of this policy paper is to present successful approaches to secure land tenure rights in rural and urban areas. To support future programmatic decisions by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), this paper focusses especially on impacts and good practices. It discusses examples from the German technical cooperation but also includes good practices and impacts achieved by other development partners.
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Environmental reserve quotas in Brazil's new forest legislation: An ex ante appraisal

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Brazil, South America
Forest Tenure
rural areas
private ownership
landowners
land ownership
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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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Land tenure alternative conflict management

Reports & Research
December, 2006
United States of America, Kenya, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, United Kingdom, Canada, Mozambique, Philippines, South Africa, Nicaragua, Uganda, Italy, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil
property rights
natural resources management
land governance
land tenure
land rights
land access
private ownership
land ownership
This training manual focuses on how to manage and resolve conflicts over land tenure rights, security of tenure and land access in the field of rural development. It results from complementary activities undertaken within FAO's Livelihood Support Programme (LSP) and the Land Tenure and Management Unit and with the International Land Coalition. It addresses the specific issues of land tenure identified in the volume Negotiation and Mediation Techniques for Natural Resource Management published by the LSP.
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Improving Tenure Security for the Rural Poor: Rwanda – Country Case Study

Reports & Research
December, 2006
Rwanda, Switzerland, Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Norway, Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
property rights
customary law
customary tenure
land governance
private ownership
land tenure
Indigenous Peoples
land reform
land tenure systems
land ownership
indigenous people's tenure
Most of the world’s poor work in the “informal economy” – outside of recognized and enforceable rules. Thus, even though most have assets of some kind, they have no way to document their possessions because they lack formal access to legally recognized tools such as deeds, contracts and permits. The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (CLEP) is the first global anti-poverty initiative focusing on the link between exclusion, poverty and law, looking for practical solutions to the challenges of poverty.
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Voluntary Guidelines for Good Governance in Land and Natural Resource Tenure

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Honduras, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, China, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia, Thailand, Nepal, Philippines, South Africa, Nicaragua, Belize, Ecuador, Argentina, India, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, Kenya
property rights
natural resources management
land governance
land tenure
land access
private ownership
land ownership
Land Tenure Working Paper 8. This paper articulates the views and demands of marginalised groups regarding the tenure of land and other natural resources. It points out the importance of adopting human rights framework when developing Voluntary Guidelines. Such framework means addressing the unequal relationships of power and corruption within and behind prevailing land tenure structures. It makes the governance of tenure of land and other natural resources more accountable, transparent, democratic and participatory.
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Voluntary Guidelines for Good Governance in Land and Natural Resource Tenure

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Mexico, Panama, Chile, Colombia, Canada, Australia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
VGGT
land governance
natural resources management
land access
land tenure
land ownership
private ownership
land tenure systems
customary tenure
indigenous people's tenure
property rights
Indigenous Peoples
Land Tenure Working Paper 9. Based on international authoritative documents, this paper draws 14 principles to be taken into account when developing Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and other Natural Resources. The paper sees Voluntary Guidelines as human-rights based documents that provide a framework and a point of reference for national and international policies.
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Multilingual thesaurus on land tenure

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2003
France, Switzerland, United States of America, Fiji, Afghanistan, Samoa, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Australia, Jamaica, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Laos, Japan, Uganda, Italy, Ecuador, Cambodia, India
Land & Investments
land administration
land economics
land information systems
tenant's rights
land use
land tax
land management
land registration
land transfers
land-use planning
property rights
land tenure
land policies
land
water rights
land rights
land access
private ownership
land reform
land use mapping
agrarian reform
land ownership
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Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons

Reports & Research
December, 2007
Angola, Timor-Leste, Rwanda, Iraq, Afghanistan, Burundi, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Pakistan, Colombia, Mozambique, Liberia, South Africa, Vietnam, Somalia, Italy, Cambodia, Sudan, Georgia, Uganda
land policies
property rights
land governance
land tenure
land rights
land access
private ownership
landowners
land ownership
The Pinheiro Principles provide restitution practitioners, as well as States and UN and others agencies, with a consolidated text relating to the legal, policy, procedural, institutional and technical implementation mechanisms for housing and property restitution. As such, the Principles provide specific policy guidance regarding how to ensure the right to housing and property restitution in practice and for the implementation of restitution laws, programmes and policies, based on existing international human rights, humanitarian, refugee and national standards.
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Good Governance and Natural Resource Tenure in the Caribbean Subregion

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Americas, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, India, Spain, France, Netherlands
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
VGGT
land administration
land registration
land governance
land policies
land reform
land-use planning
urban planning
land management
common lands
urban areas
land cover
land use
agricultural land management
land clearing
land consolidation
land improvement
land
natural resources management
land markets
land economics
land transfers
land rights
landlessness
land access
land tenure
land ownership
private ownership
property rights
Land Tenure Working Paper 17. This publication identifies and assesses issues related to land governance and provides examples of good governance in the Caribbean subregion. This working paper was done in light of FAO’s Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and other Natural Resources.