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Agrarian reform and the 'two economies': transforming South Africa’s countryside

January, 2005
South Africa
agrarian reform
land reform
land governance
rural areas
South African president Mbeki has characterised the developmental challenge in his country in terms of integrating the structurally disconnected ‘two economies’. On the one hand the modern industrial, mining, agricultural, financial and services sector, and on the other the ‘third world economy’ found in those urban and rural areas where the majority of poor people live.This draft chapter challenges this characterisation and focuses on the rural dimensions of the ‘two economies’ debate.
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Making property rights accessible: social movements andlegal innovation in the Philippines

January, 2005
Philippines
agrarian reform
right of access
land reform
Today, many rural poor Filipinos are using state law to try to claim land rights. In spite of the availability of a much stronger set of legal resources than ever before, claiming legal land rights remains difficult. Some argue these difficulties are a reason to turn away from state-led land reform and toward a market-assisted land reform (MALR) model.
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Agrarian reform in the context of food sovereignty, the right to food and cultural diversity: “land, territory and dignity”

January, 2006
agrarian reform
rural development
women
Through an analysis of the right to adequate food and the right to land, this civil society report, argued that achieving food sovereignty requires agrarian reform.
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AGRARIAN REFORM IN THE CONTEXT OF FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, THE RIGHT TO FOOD AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY: LAND, TERRITORY AND DIGNITY

ICARRD, Issue Paper 5

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2006
Global
agrarian reform
land rights
rural development
food security

This paper provides a civil society perspective on agrarian reform and rural development and develops the concept of food sovereignty as an overarching framework or paradigm.
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Land Registration Reform in Indonesia

Reports & Research
January, 1996
Indonesia
agrarian reform
This paper focuses on the Land Administration Project implemented by the National Land Agency as a central part of the reform of land administration process in Indonesia.
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PARTICIPATORY and NEGOTIATED TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT (PNTD)

Legislation & Policies
January, 2005
Global
agrarian reform
land rights
rural development
land governance
land area
capacity development
natural resources management
Territorial Development: an innovative approach
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Comments on FAO Voluntary Guidelines

Comparative analysis of the Zero Draft and of International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD) Final Declaration

Global
agrarian reform
land rights
property law
land governance
land policies
The VG exercise has been presented as a continuum from the ICARRD Conference and commitments by Member States; therefore there is scope for a comparative analysis of the two texts.
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Focus on Africa: Kenya Lesson Brief, Group Ranches

Focus on Africa: Kenya Lesson Brief, Group Ranches

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2011
Africa
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
landlessness
agrarian reform
land rights
agriculture
common property
rural development
land governance
land policies
legal empowerment
natural resources management
This lesson brief follows the modernization of pastoral livestock production in Kenya. This lesson brief is part of the Focus on Africa: Land Tenure and Property Rights online educational tool. Rangelands and pastoralists in Kenya have received considerable attention from government.
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CSO Draft Comments on the First Draft of the Voluntary Guidelines

Global
agrarian reform
land policies
advocacy
The elaboration of these comments has been facilitated by the International CSO Facilitating Team, which the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) put in place early 2010 to facilitate CSO participation in the elaboration process of the FAO Guidelines. It requested comments from all CSO interested in this process through the Civil Society Mechanism of the CFS.

Civil Society Organizations are requested to send their comments to the attached document until Monday 13th of June to:
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World Economic and Social Survey 2011

The Great Green Technological Transformation

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Global
farmers
agrarian reform
agriculture
food security
natural resources management
environment