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Growing the Field

A Collaborative Approach to Change

Reports & Research
January, 2023
Africa, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Senegal, Colombia, Asia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, Global
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
rights in divorce
land governance
land inheritance rights
climate change
land rights
community land rights
smallholders
youth
women
Land rights are ascendant across the development sector. Movements addressing women’s empowerment, poverty, social justice, food security and climate change are all increasingly turning to land rights to strengthen their cause. In 2022, renowned philanthropist MacKenzie Scott joined these efforts by making an unprecedented $20 million investment in our work. Ms. Scott’s generous gift represents a profound endorsement of the power of land rights to improve the lives of women, men, and communities around the world.
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Land Rights Matter – Global Programme Responsible Land Policy

Video

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2021
Ethiopia, Madagascar, Uganda, Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Peru, Laos, Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
VGGT
land administration
food security
deforestation
land productivity
sustainable land management
responsible investment
land rights
land conflicts
customary land rights
tenure security
capacity development
Indigenous Peoples
women
In this introductory video to the Global Programme Responsible Land Policy answers are given to what it wants to achieve, how it works and why land rights are so important. The Global Programme is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), co-funded by the European Union and works in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Laos, Madagascar, Peru (completed in 2021), Uganda and Paraguay (completed in 2018).
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Absent Voices: Women and Youth in Communal Land Governance. Reflections on Methods and Process from Exploratory Research in West and East Africa

Volume 9 Issue 8

Peer-reviewed publication
August, 2020
Central African Republic, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Eastern Africa
Land & Gender
land governance
research
women
youth
An increasing number of African States are recognizing customary land tenure. Yet, there is a lack of research on how community rights are recognized in legal and policy frameworks, how they are implemented in practice, and how to include marginalized groups. In 2018–2019, we engaged in collaborative exploratory research on governing natural resources for food sovereignty with social movement networks, human rights lawyers and academics in West and East Africa.
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Webinar Report: The Role of Land Certification in Securing Women's Land Rights on Collective Lands

Reports & Research
January, 2020
Ethiopia, Uganda, Peru, Indonesia
Land & Gender
collective ownership
customary land rights
customary tenure
formal tenure
gender equity in access to land
land titling
tenure security
women
Evidence shows that women can benefit from having individualised land rights formalized in their names. However, similar evidence is not available for formalization of land rights that are based on collective tenure. Studies have estimated that as much as 65 percent of the world’s land is held under customary, collective-tenure systems. Improving tenure security for land held collectively has been shown to improve resource management and to support self-determination of indigenous groups.
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Realizing women’s rights to land in the law

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2018
Serbia, Nepal, Morocco, Guatemala, Philippines, Uganda, Albania, Oman, Peru, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Colombia, Cambodia, Congo, Argentina, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, China, Mexico, Kenya
Land & Gender
customary tenure
land tenure
land inheritance rights
customary land rights
land rights
land tenure systems
women
Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” recognizes the fundamental role of women in achieving poverty reduction, food security and nutrition.
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The gender gap in land rights

Institutional & promotional materials
March, 2018
Bangladesh, Nigeria, Peru, Ghana, Ethiopia, Niger, Malawi, Honduras, Uganda, Tanzania, Ecuador, Cambodia, Paraguay, Burkina Faso, Iraq, Burundi, Nepal, Nicaragua, Tajikistan, Haiti, Mexico, Vietnam
Land & Gender
agricultural land management
land tenure
land rights
landowners
land ownership
women
For rural women and men, land is often the most important household asset for supporting agricultural production and providing food security and nutrition. Evidence shows that secure land tenure is strongly associated with higher levels of investment and productivity in agriculture – and therefore with higher incomes and greater economic wellbeing. Secure land rights for women are often correlated with better outcomes for them and their families, including greater bargaining power at household and community levels, better child nutrition and lower levels of gender-based violence.
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Women's perceptions of tenure security

Evidence from 33 Countries

Reports & Research
March, 2019
Morocco, Tunisia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Cameroon, Namibia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Jordan, United Kingdom
gender equity in access to land
land tenure
land tenure systems
property rights
tenure security
women
This report uses household-level data from 33, mostly developing, countries to analyse perceptions of tenure insecurity among women. We test two hypotheses: (1) that women feel more insecure than men; and (2) that increasing statutory protections for women, for instance by issuing joint named titles or making inheritance law more gender equal, increases de facto tenure security.
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Manual sobre género en agricultura

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2012
Bangladesh, Honduras, Gambia, El Salvador, Chile, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Vietnam, Ghana, Costa Rica, Niger, Thailand, Palau, Nepal, Pakistan, Yemen, Nicaragua, Malaysia, Laos, Mexico, Tanzania, Botswana, India, Uganda, Côte d'Ivoire, Africa, Americas, Asia, Oceania
climate change
land governance
women
land tenure
Este Manual es un recurso particularmente oportuno. Combina relatos descriptivos de las experiencias nacionales e internacionales en las inversiones agrícolas con directrices operativas prácticas sobre cómo diseñar estrategias agrícolas para el desarrollo, que capitalicen de manera efectiva las propiedades únicas del crecimiento agrario y el desarrollo rural con la participación de hombres y mujeres como un recurso de alto impacto para la reducción de la pobreza.
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Nature & Faune

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
France, Switzerland, Kenya, Gambia, Mali, Zimbabwe, China, Ghana, Congo, Malawi, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda, Gabon, Tanzania, Vietnam, Africa
natural resources management
youth
land rights
rural development
agriculture
women
Ce numéro de Nature & Faune met le focus sur « La place de la jeunesse africaine dans l’agriculture, les ressources naturelles et le développement rural ». Il compte vingt et un articles contribués par divers auteurs experts dans les secteurs suivants : les politiques, les ONG travaillant dans le domaine de la conservation ; le secteur privé, les groupes de la société civile, la recherche et le milieu universitaire ainsi que les associations de jeunes.
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Nature & Faune

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
France, Switzerland, Gambia, Mali, Zimbabwe, China, Ghana, Congo, Malawi, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Mozambique, Liberia, South Africa, Uganda, Gabon, Tanzania, Vietnam, Africa
natural resources management
youth
land rights
rural development
agriculture
women
This Issue of Nature & Faune puts forward the case of “African Youth in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development”. It comprises twenty one articles from authors of various backgrounds, including: policy makers, conservation NGOs; the private sector; civil society groups; research and academia as well as youth groups.