Solano is a municipality located in the department of Caquetá within the deforestation arc of the Colombian Amazon, the second largest municipality in area of the country. Solano can only be reached by river, although there are already several trails that allow to reach the municipal’s capital by car at certain times of the year.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchOctober, 2023Colombia
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Sustainability
Peer-reviewed publicationJanuary, 2017EcuadorWhile an increase in the size and number of conservation areas is expected as part of global environmental commitments, at the same time, Protected Area Downgrading, Downsizing, and Degazettement, or PADDD, is becoming more frequent worldwide. This paper analyzes the causal relationships between land claims and human settlements on the one hand and the downsizing process of a protective forest in southeastern Ecuador on the other.
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Forests
Peer-reviewed publicationJanuary, 2012Nicaragua, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Chile, BrazilBased on theoretical underpinnings and an empirical review of forest laws and regulations of selected countries throughout the Americas, we examine key components of natural forest management and how they are addressed in the legal frameworks of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, and the U.S.
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Land
Peer-reviewed publicationJanuary, 2021EcuadorLand administration is established to manage the people-to-land relationship. However, it is believed that 70% of the land in developing countries is unregistered. In the case of Ecuador, the government has an ambitious strategy to implement a national cadaster on the full territory in a short time period. Therefore, the objective of this study was the assessment of land administration in Ecuador based on the fit-for-purpose approach as an assessment framework.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2021South America, Peru
Compilación de diversos artículos sobre la situación de las tierras, los territorios y los recursos naturales en la Amazonía peruana. Incluye perspectivas históricas, antropológicas, datos básicos sobre normas e instituciones, así como valiosos análisis sobre los desafíos actuales de la titulación de las comunidades nativas en las regiones de Ucayali y San Martín.
Para más información sobre el proyecto: Land Titles for Indigenous Communities in Peru | Land Portal.
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Tomo II
Policy Papers & BriefsOctober, 2021South America, PeruComplementando el Compendio de Normas publicado en 2018, el Tomo II actualiza las normas relevantes en el marco del sanamiento físico legal de la propiedad agraria de los predios rurales, comunidades campesinas y comunidades nativas y catastro rural.
Para más información sobre el proyecto: Land Titles for Indigenous Communities in Peru | Land Portal.
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Peru: SIC Comunidades - a Rural Cadastre System
Institutional & promotional materialsDecember, 2021Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, PeruThe Global Programme 'Responsible Land Policy' (GPRLP) is part of the Special Initiative 'One World, No Hunger' of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), which aims to reduce extreme poverty and hunger.
In Peru, ProTierras Comunales (PTC), as part of the Global Programme, aims to improve the access to land and natural resources for native communities in the Peruvian Amazon, in the regions Ucayali and San Martín. A functional and regularly updated digital cadastre system was created to improve the land titling system.
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Peru: Classification of Conflicts in the Community Titling Process
Institutional & promotional materialsDecember, 2021Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, PeruThe Global Programme 'Responsible Land Policy' (GPRLP) is part of the Special Initiative 'One World, No Hunger' of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), which aims to reduce extreme poverty and hunger.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2021Brazil
Fraud and corruption are the main enabling mechanisms for land abuses in Brazil, guaranteeing impunity for land grabbers and other public and private agents involved in these schemes. This is what is evidenced in the research report, “Weak land governance, fraud and corruption: fertile ground for land grabbing,” which systematizes for the first time the relationship between these issues. Thereby, the study seeks to understand precisely why and how corruption and fraud associated with land grabbing occur.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2021Brazil
O termo “grilagem” remete à prática antiga de forjar um título de propriedade e colocá-lo em uma gaveta com grilos para amarelar o documento, conferindo a aparência de um documento legitimo. As táticas se modernizaram, persistindo diversas práticas, conhecidas como grilagem, que buscam fraudar títulos e invadir terras com o objetivo de apropriar- -se indevidamente de áreas tanto públicas quanto particulares, muitas vezes com o auxílio de agentes corruptos, sejam eles da esfera pública ou privada.
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