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Les forêts, les arbres et la diminution de la pauvreté en Afrique : Une synthèse politique élargie

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2021
Africa, Northern Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe, Oceania
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
forestry
deforestation
farming systems
agroforestry systems
land rights
land tenure systems
Malgré la richesse en ressources naturelles, la pauvreté reste un défi majeur dans les pays d'Afrique. Le continent abrite 70 % des personnes extrêmement pauvres du monde, dont beaucoup dépendent souvent des forêts, des arbres et des services écosystémiques qu'ils fournissent pour assurer leur subsistance. Bien qu'elles soient souvent négligées, les forêts et les systèmes arboricoles sont essentiels dans les efforts de lutte contre la pauvreté.
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LAND TENURE INSECURITY AND LABOR ALLOCATION IN RURAL CHINA

Reports & Research
September, 2016
China, Russia, United States of America
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land Conflicts
land
land tenure
tenure insecurity
Farmers' ability to leave agriculture is an important and debated topic in China and other countries. Many scholars believe China's unique land tenure policies prevent farmers from leaving agriculture. This paper examines the hypothesis that China's land tenure system deters exit from agriculture using household level data from Northeast China. Farm Management, Labor and Human Capital, Land Economics/Use,
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Collective versus Individual Property: Tenure Security and Forest Tenure Reforms in China

Reports & Research
July, 2016
Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Russia, United States of America
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
property
tenure security
This study assesses the determinants of forest land allocation to households in the forest tenure reforms in China in the period 1980-2005 using data from three provinces in Southern China; Fujian, Jiang Xi and Yunnan. Furthermore, it assesses the current level of tenure security on forest land and how this tenure security is affected by past and more recent policy changes.
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Determinants of Agricultural Investment: An Application to Rural China

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Australia, China, Russia, United States of America
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land tenure
land tenure
land tenure systems
China, a country developing at unprecedented levels, has experienced drastic changes throughout its recent economic history. Of primary interest is the continuing development and improvement of the rural agricultural sector, with even the slightest changes in this sector having dramatic ripple effects on rural economies. Estimates of rural households involved in agricultural production range from 65 to 70 percent (de Brauw & Rozelle, 2008; Rozelle, Taylor, & de Brauw, 1999).
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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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Commémoration du 5eme Anniversaire des Directives Volontaires sur les Régimes Fonciers

Institutional & promotional materials
October, 2018
Angola, Rwanda, France, Laos, Guatemala, Philippines, Lesotho, Mali, Burundi, Madagascar, Myanmar, Eswatini, Ghana, Congo, Ukraine, Sierra Leone, Malawi, Pakistan, Niger, Gabon, Kenya
land governance
land tenure
Le 11 mai 2017 a marqué le 5ème anniversaire de l’approbation des Directives volontaires pour une gouvernance responsable des terres, des pêches et des forêts dans le contexte de la sécurité alimentaire nationale (DV) par le Comité de la sécurité alimentaire mondial (CSA). Les DV ne sont plus simplement des mots dans un document et leurs principes et processus incitent les personnes du monde entier à agir et à changer leur réalité.
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Land Tenure Journal 2016/01

Journal Articles & Books
August, 2016
Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Niger, Argentina, Pakistan, Czech Republic, Romania, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Serbia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Papua New Guinea
land governance
land tenure
This issue of the Land Tenure Journal includes a geographically and technically diverse range of papers covering Europe, Africa, and Asia.
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Creating a system to record tenure rights and first registration

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2019
Sweden, Ukraine, Peru, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, Canada, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Tanzania, Netherlands, France, Spain, Croatia, China, Australia, Ireland, Finland, New Zealand, Rwanda, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ghana
land rights
customary law
land tenure
This guide is about extending the recording or registration of tenure rights to people who currently are not served by systems to record their rights. It provides practical advice on ways to introduce a new system to record tenure rights and for the recording of rights for the first time by the state, a process that is sometimes called first registration.
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Améliorer les moyens d'enregistrer les droits fonciers

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2018
Rwanda, France, Pakistan, Ukraine, Ghana
land governance
land rights
customary law
land tenure
Ce guide fournit des conseils pratiques pour améliorer les méthodes actuelles d’enregistrement des droits de manière à ce que les protections et les avantages offerts par les systèmes d’enregistrement puissent être accessibles à tous sans discrimination. Ce guide fait partie d’une série de guides techniques apportant des conseils sur les différentes façons d’améliorer la gouvernance foncière, conformément aux Directives.
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Review of forest owners’ organizations in selected Eastern European countries

Reports & Research
July, 2018
Slovakia, Lithuania, Hungary, Germany, China, Italy, Latvia, Austria, Finland, Romania, Czech Republic
land governance
land tenure