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Common ground: Securing land rights and safeguarding the earth. A Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
Indigenous Peoples
land
land grabbing
land rights
women
Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up over 50 percent of the land on the planet; they legally own just one-fifth. The remaining land remains unprotected and vulnerable to land grabs from more powerful entities like governments and corporations. There is growing evidence of the vital role played by full legal ownership of land by indigenous peoples and local communities in preserving cultural diversity and in combating poverty and hunger, political instability and climate change.
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Land Rights Matter! Anchors to Reduce Land Grabbing, Dispossession and Displacement. A Comparative Study of Land Rights Systems in Southeast Asia and the Potential of National and International Legal Frameworks and Guidelines

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Vietnam
Land & Investments
Land & Gender
legal empowerment
development agencies
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land distribution
land reform
land investments
land acquisitions
title deeds
land titling
women
poverty
land policies
land law
ABSTRACTED FROM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Land rights systems in Southeast Asia are in constant flux; they respond to various socioeconomic and political pressures and to changes in statutory and customary law. Over the last decade, Southeast Asia has become one of the hotspots of the global land grab phenomenon, accounting for about 30 percent of transnational land grabs globally. Land grabs by domestic urban elites, the military or government actors are also common in many Southeast Asian countries.
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Making Women’s Voices Count in Community Decision-Making on Land Investments

Reports & Research
July, 2016
Africa
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
land
land investments
women
Examines options for strengthening women’s participatory rights in the face of increasing commercial pressures on land in 3 countries: Mozambique, Tanzania, and the Philippines. Focuses on how regulatory reform – reforms in the rules, regulations, guidelines, and procedures that implement national land acquisition and investment laws – can promote gender equity and allow women to realize the rights afforded by national legal frameworks and international standards.
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Perceived Land Tenure Security and Rural Transformation: Empirical Evidence from Ghana

Reports & Research
July, 2016
Ghana, Africa
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
women
land
land markets
farmers
land tenure
Using household- and plot-level data from Ghana, analyzes the main factors associated with farmers’ perceived tenure security. Individually, farmers perceive greater tenure security on plots acquired via inheritance than on land allocated by traditional authorities. But collectively, perceived tenure security lessens in communities with more active land markets and economic vibrancy. Migrant households and women in polygamous households feel less secure about their tenure, while farmers with political connections are more confident about their tenure security.
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Mainstreaming gender in Tanzania’s local land governance

Reports & Research
July, 2016
Tanzania, Africa
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land
land governance
environment
land management
land allocation
land law
women
Despite progressive provisions on gender equality in Tanzania’s land laws, women have little representation in land allocation decisions. Mainstreaming gender in local regulations can help address this problem. The Tanzania Women Lawyers Association, in partnership with the World Resources Institute and Lawyers’ Environmental Action Team, developed model by-laws to improve women’s participation in local-level decision-making on village land management. This took place in Kidugalo and Vilabwa villages in Kisarawe district.
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Strengthening women’s voices in the context of agricultural investments: Lessons from Tanzania

Reports & Research
July, 2016
Tanzania, Africa
Land & Gender
land
land governance
patrilineal lineage
land rights
land access
land law
women
Provides a backdrop of relevant policies and practice; a gender analysis of the policy framework governing land and investments; and recommendations on how to work towards land rights securing and better inclusion in land governance processes for women in Tanzania. Concludes that implementation of laws, including key gender equality principles, has been weak, and gender inequality in land access persists largely due to the continued dominance of (patrilineal) customary land laws and practice.
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Gender, insecurity and large-scale land acquisitions in Northern Sierra Leone

Reports & Research
October, 2016
Africa
Land & Investments
Land & Gender
land deals
women
scale
research
land
This policy brief is based on research that examines women’s security in the context of large-scale land deals in West Africa. It focuses on Northern Sierra Leone and the impact of biofuels investment projects in Port Loko district, recommending three key changes.
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Promoting Gender Equality in Foreign Agricultural Investments: Lessons from voluntary sustainability standards

Reports & Research
January, 2017
Africa
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
gender equity in access to land
farmland
land investments
foreign investment
research
farmers
women
Contains framework for analysing the gender impacts of foreign investment in agriculture; gender analysis of the certification criteria of voluntary sustainability standards and responsible investment frameworks; do voluntary sustainability standards improve gender equality?; lessons for responsible investment frameworks and recommendations.
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Improved Agricultural Technology Adoption in Zambia

Are Women Farmers Being Left Behind?

Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2016
Zambia
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
agrarian reform
agricultural and rural legislation
investment funds
women
The use of modern seed varieties and other improved technologies is essential for farmers to significantly increase their crop harvest and improve their livelihoods. All over Sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture productivity growth has remained very low over many decades irrespective of gender of the farmer. However, studies have shown that women farmers fare worse than the male counterparts in terms of adoption of improved technology and productivity.
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Safeguards for communities during acquisition of land for investment purposes

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2016
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
community land rights
compensation
compulsory acquisitions
customary tenure
formal tenure
gender equity in access to land
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
indigenous people's tenure
intensive land use
land access
land acquisitions
land administration
land management
land suitability
land use
public ownership
sustainable development
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
title deeds
women
Kenya is going through a period of intense transition. The country's main development policy, Vision 2030, is just entering the second Medium Term Plan of Implementation from 2013. The development priorities focus extensively on large scale investments, for industrial, irrigated agriculture, utilization of newly discovered natural resources, and infrastructure development. Land is therefore a central commodity for realization of the sought after socioeconomic transformation.