Search results | Land Portal

Search results

Showing items 1 through 9 of 42.
  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    November, 2013
    South Africa, Guatemala, Brazil, Colombia, Philippines, Thailand, India

    USAID welcomes The Coca-Cola Company’s recently announced commitments to ensure that its sugar suppliers protect the land rights of local communities. Coca-Cola - the world’s largest purchaser of sugar - agreed to revise its corporate Supplier Guiding Principles to incorporate principles that recognize and safeguard local communities’ and indigenous peoples’ rights to land and natural resources.

  2. Library Resource
    June, 2013
    Colombia, Timor-Leste

    From Latin America to Southeast Asia, land rights and resource governance are at the center of many conflicts around the globe. In Colombia, land and rural development are the first agenda items in the ongoing peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). In Burma, the world's longest-running civil war has left over 450,000 people internally displaced, with approximately 215,000 more in refugee camps along the Thai border.

  3. Library Resource
    January, 2013
    Colombia, Cuba

    According to a recent article from Reuters AlertNet, land is the first issue on the agenda at the historic peace talks in Cuba between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Unequal land distribution is a factor in Colombia’s decades-long internal conflict. If the current peace negotiations are to succeed and Colombia is to achieve enduring peace and stability, land issues must be addressed.

  4. Library Resource
    April, 2013
    Colombia

    On April 30, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah will attend a land restitution event in Colombia, where he will witness the transfer of land titles to individuals who have been displaced by the country’s internal conflict. Inequitable land distribution - an estimated 0.4% of the population owns 62% of the country’s best land - was a fundamental driver of the long-running conflict, which has caused an estimated 4 million Colombians to become internally displaced.

  5. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Colombia

    Unequal land distribution and the
    negative social and economic implications resulting from
    such polarization in Colombia have long been of concern to
    policymakers. A 1950 World Bank mission identified unequal
    land distribution as a key impediment to economic and social
    development in the country. Since then, a wide range of
    policies has been adopted to deal with this issue and its
    consequences. Numerous studies show that the success of

  6. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    Colombia

    Based on a large survey to compare the
    effectiveness of land markets and land reform in Colombia,
    the authors find that rental and sales markets were more
    effective in transferring land to poor but productive
    producers than was administrative land reform. The fact that
    land transactions were all of a short-term nature and that
    little land was transferred from very large to small land
    owners or the landless suggests that there may be scope for

  7. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    Colombia

    The objective of this analysis is to
    assess the state of progress of risk management in Colombia
    and propose recommendations to help the Government set
    public policy in the short-and long-term. For this reason,
    the study sought to: (i) establish the risk and impact of
    disasters in recent decades, (ii) identify legal,
    institutional and conceptual themes in the country, (iii)
    review the state and evolution of investment in risk

  8. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Colombia

    During the past several months, the
    Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development
    of Colombia has been researching potential indicators that
    would be useful to assess and possibly adopt among which
    included the ecological footprint. This work was
    commissioned in order to provide the Ministry with a deeper
    understanding of the ecological footprint and to train a
    number of its staff on the scope of the footprint in order

  9. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Colombia

    This concept note presents the strategic
    engagement of the World Bank in the areas of public sector
    management and governance in Colombia. It describes the
    short and medium term approach through which the Bank will
    provide support to the country on those areas of reform, as
    well as their links and synergies with other sectors
    activities. It also provides a summary of the Bank's
    public sector management and governance recent activities

Land Library Search

Through our robust search engine, you can search for any item of the over 64,800 highly curated resources in the Land Library. 

If you would like to find an overview of what is possible, feel free to peruse the Search Guide


Share this page