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In the Face of Threats and Invasions in the Forests, Communities Defend and Reclaim Their Life Spaces

WRM Bulletin 254 – Jan/Feb 2021

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2021
Mozambique, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Liberia, Nigeria, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
gender equity
poverty
sustainable development
land-use planning
environment
climate change
fisheries
deforestation
forest conservation
forest management plans
mining
land dispute
community land rights
customary tenure
tenure security
Indigenous Peoples
land rights activists
local communities
extractive industries
women
The articles in this Bulletin are written by the following organizations and individuals: National Coordinator for the Defense of the Mangrove Ecosystem (C-CONDEM), Ecuador; Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakya (Bentala Raya Heritage Foundation), Indonesia; Venezuelan Observatory of Political Ecology and members of the WRM international secretariat in close collaboration with several allies who are part of grassroots groups in different countries.
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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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Overhaul of the right to protection from deprivation of property in Uganda

Analysing the risks for affected communities

Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2017
Uganda
Land & Investments
extractive industries
land acquisitions
land grabbing
land ownership
land reform
local communities
property rights
tenure security
The exploitation of natural resources plays a critical role in the Uganda government’s plans to develop the country. Extractive industries are up scaling their activity as the sector is gearing up for the exploitation of oil and gaz by 2020. In a country where most people live off the land, the construction of industrial infrastructure carries great risks for the protection of fundamental rights.
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Enabling access to clean agricultural inputs and technologies: Improving farmer yields and businesses turnover

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2017
Ethiopia
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agricultural land management
farmers
farming systems
land investments
tenure security
sustainable land management
Supporting the agriculture sector

The GoE with technical support from the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) programme is issuing Second Level Land Certificates (SLLC) to increase the land tenure security of farmers. As a result, farmers are more willing to invest in their land in a productive and sustainable way. However, to allow for increased productive investment, farmers must have access to improved agri-inputs and technologies that are climate smart: this is currently a challenge in most rural areas.
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Promoting financial inclusion: Developing an innovative SLLC-linked loan product

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2017
Ethiopia
farmers
land loans
land markets
land ownership
land valuation
tenure security
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Ethiopia are offering farmers a new financial product: the SLLC-linked individual loan product

With Second Level Land Certification (SLLC), MFIs have the security of knowing the ownership and exact landholding size of farmers. This has allowed the development of an innovative individual lending product that uses the produce of the land as a form of guarantee.
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Formalising land rental transactions

Beneficial to smallholder farmers, particularly for vulnerable groups

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2017
Ethiopia
cadastral administration
farmers
land markets
land rent
land transactions
landlessness
tenure security
youth
How LIFT promotes formalisation
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Promoting financial inclusion

Improving farmers’ lives through the SLLC-linked loan product

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2017
Ethiopia
agricultural land management
farmers
farming systems
land investments
land loans
tenure security
sustainable land management
With Second Level Land Certification (SLLC), farmers gain increased security of tenure: this incentivises them to invest more in their land.

To allow for this productive investment to take place, the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) programme is working with micro finance institutions (MFIs) to roll out an innovative financial product: the SLLC-linked individual loan.

Accessing longer terms and larger size loans allows farmers to increase the productivity of their land, graduate from subsistence farming, and become more commercially oriented.
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Post-conflict land governance reform in the African Great Lakes region. Part II - Reshuffling land ownership for development

Journal Articles & Books
Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2016
Burundi, South Sudan, Uganda
Land Conflicts
continuum in land rights
land conflicts
land governance
land ownership
land reform
land tenure
land tenure systems
tenure security
After conflict, governments and donors often feel a need for up-scaling and modernizing land use. There is an ambition to achieve economic recovery and contribute to food security through stimulating large-scale investment in land. Our research in Uganda, Burundi and South Sudan suggests that policymakers should be extremely careful when promoting large-scale land acquisitions, both foreign and national. Especially in the difficult transition from war to peace, large-scale appropriation of land risks becoming a threat to tenure security and the recovery of rural livelihoods.
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Post-conflict land governance reform in the African Great Lakes region. Part I - The challenges of post-conflict land reform

Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2016
Burundi, South Sudan, Uganda
Land Conflicts
continuum in land rights
land
land conflicts
land dispute
land governance
land ownership
land reform
land tenure
land tenure systems
tenure security
Disputes over land are a prominent feature of many situations of protracted violent conflict in Burundi, Uganda and South Sudan. Research conducted as part of the programme ‘Grounding Land Governance’ underscores that war reshuffles access and ownership, but also critically changes the ways in which land is governed. Land issues often come to resonate with other conflicts in society, thereby affecting overall stability. This makes interventions in land governance politically sensitive.