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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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Methods of consensus building for community based fisheries management in Bangladesh and the Mekong Delta

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2003
Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Bangladesh, Vietnam
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
local communities
natural resources management
Indigenous Peoples
collective ownership
land tenure systems
fisheries
A method of consensus building for management of wetlands and fisheries using a systematic approach to participatory planning and initially developed in Bangladesh is now being applied in both Bangladesh and the Mekong delta. The method recognizes diversity in livelihoods and works through a structured learning and planning process that focuses on common interests. It works with each category of stakeholder separately to prioritize the natural resource problems that their livelihoods are largely dependent on, they then share and agree common priorities in plenary.
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Conflicts Over Land - A Role for Responsible and Inclusive Business

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Asia
Land & Investments
advocacy
agrarian reform
agriculture
cadastres
capacity development
climate change
common property
desertification
environment
extractive industries
farmers
fisheries
food security
forestry
gender equity in access to land
Indigenous Peoples
land area
land conflicts
land governance
land grabbing
land markets
land policies
land rights
landlessness
legal empowerment
local communities
natural resources management
pastoralists
property law
research
rural development
women
This briefing paper makes the case for proactive business engagement in respecting land rights and ensuring legal, fair and inclusive practices on land use, access to natural resources and equitable development opportunities. It outlines key challenges, provides an overview of existing instruments that can help companies address issues related to land, and points to practical entry points for improved business practices.
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This Land is Whose Land? Dispossession, Resistance and Reform in the United States

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2014
Northern America
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
advocacy
agrarian reform
agriculture
extractive industries
cadastres
capacity development
climate change
common property
land conflicts
desertification
environment
farmers
fisheries
food security
forestry
gender equity in access to land
Indigenous Peoples
land governance
land grabbing
land policies
land rights
landlessness
legal empowerment
local communities
natural resources management
pastoralists
property law
research
rural development
land area
land markets
women
Food First Backgrounder, Spring 2014, Vol. 20, No. 1

Introduction: Land, Race and the Agrarian Crisis

The disastrous effects of widespread land grabbing and land concentration sweeping the globe do not affect all farmers equally. The degree of vulnerability to these threats is highest for smallholders, women and people of color—the ones who grow, harvest, process and prepare most of the world’s food.
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Tenure security and demand for land tenure regularization in Nigeria - Publication - IFPRI

Empirical evidence from Ondo and Kano states

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Nigeria
Land & Investments
capacity development
climate change
common property
land conflicts
desertification
environment
extractive industries
farmers
fisheries
food security
forestry
gender equity in access to land
Indigenous Peoples
land governance
land grabbing
land policies
land rights
landlessness
legal empowerment
local communities
natural resources management
pastoralists
property law
research
rural development
land area
land markets
women
In line with the conventional view that customary land rights impede agricultural development, the traditional tenure system in Nigeria has been perceived to obstruct the achievement of efficient development and agricultural transformation. This led to the Land Use Act (LUA) of 1978.
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How the world is paving the way for corporate land grabs - Publication - ActionAid

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Global
Land & Investments
advocacy
agrarian reform
agriculture
extractive industries
cadastres
capacity development
climate change
common property
land conflicts
desertification
environment
farmers
fisheries
food security
forestry
gender equity in access to land
Indigenous Peoples
land governance
land grabbing
land policies
land rights
landlessness
legal empowerment
local communities
natural resources management
pastoralists
property law
research
rural development
land area
land markets
women
"For millions of people living in the world’s poorest countries, access to land is a matter not of wealth, but of survival, identity and belonging. Most of the 1.4 billion people earning less than US$1.25 a day live in rural areas and depend largely on agriculture for their livelihoods, while an estimated 2.5 billion people are involved in full- or part-time smallholder agriculture.
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Agricultural change, land, and violence in Darfur

We No Longer Share the Land - Oxfam Briefing Paper

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2014
Central African Republic
Land & Investments
Indigenous Peoples
farmers
local communities
women
pastoralists
landlessness
agrarian reform
land rights
agriculture
land grabbing
property law
extractive industries
forestry
common property
fisheries
rural development
land governance
land policies
land area
land markets
food security
climate change
legal empowerment
land conflicts
advocacy
capacity development
cadastres
natural resources management
gender equity in access to land
environment
research
desertification
Most analyses of violence in Darfur ignore the local dimension of the crisis, focusing instead on the region’s economic and political marginalization and climatic variability. However, agricultural change and other changes relating to the land-rights and land-use systems have led to competition and exclusion, and have played a major role in the collective violence that has raged throughout the region. Understanding these questions is essential for the successful resolution of political and policy debates in Darfur.

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Whose Land? Whose Forest? Whose Water?

People's Struggle for Land, Forest and Water in India- Struggle stories collected on the ground by Ekta Parishad

Reports & Research
January, 2012
Asia
Land & Investments
Indigenous Peoples
farmers
local communities
pastoralists
landlessness
land rights
land grabbing
property law
forestry
common property
fisheries
rural development
land governance
land policies
land area
extractive industries
food security
legal empowerment
land conflicts
natural resources management
environment
Ekta Parishad along with support organisations launched a decisive movement called Jan Satyagrah whose focus was to bring together people’s voices for a ‘National Land Reforms Act & Policy’ as a broad framework and means of land re-distribution to the landless and homeless poor.
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Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET) and Indigenous Peoples in Kenya

Report on Expert Mission by a Member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Reports & Research
January, 2012
Kenya
Land & Investments
Indigenous Peoples
farmers
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
agriculture
land grabbing
common property
fisheries
rural development
land governance
land conflicts
natural resources management
environment
The LAPSSET Corridor project, a major infrastructure development project that will run from Kenya to South Sudan and Ethiopia, will impact, positively or negatively, on the lives of more than 100 million people in the three countries. Indigenous peoples will potentially suffer the most negative impacts as a result of their having been historically marginalized economically, socially and politically. The recent discovery of oil in Turkana will add to the suffering of the Turkana peoples.