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We Belong to the Land

10 Years of the Tenure Guidelines: States Must Address Rising Inequalities and Enact Agrarian Reform to Realize the Right to Land - International Statement

Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2022
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
VGGT
land equity
gender equity
poverty
land reform
agrarian reform
land rights
dispossession
community land rights
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (Tenure Guidelines), we, organizations of small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, workers, urban communities and civil society, underline the critical importance of land, fisheries and forests for achieving social, environmental, gender and intergenerational justice, and demand that States, the FAO and the entire UN system comply with their obligations to realize the right to land.
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Rural Livelihoods in Three Mountainous Regions of Tajikistan

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2007
Tajikistan
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
poverty
land reform
agrarian reform
livestock
agriculture
migration
This article uses data from household income surveys to look at income structures amongst households in three mountainous regions of Tajikistan: Gorno-Badakhshan, the Rasht Valley and Eastern Khatlon. The structure of incomes demonstrates the dominant role of subsistence agriculture in all three regions although commercial agriculture is important amongst better-off households in Rasht. Relationships between poverty and household characteristics including access to capital, demographic variables and income-generating activities were examined.
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All That Glitters is Not Gold: Turmoil in Zimbabwe’s Mining Sector

Reports & Research
November, 2020
Zimbabwe
Land Conflicts
COVID-19
poverty
land reform
mining
conflicts
natural resources management
land stakeholders
Executive Summary
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Land Reform in Tajikistan: Consequences for Tenure Security, Agricultural Productivity and Land Management Practices

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2008
Tajikistan
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
poverty
land law
land reform
land management
land degradation
agriculture
landlessness
land tenure
collective ownership
private ownership
tenure security
This paper examines the impact of land reform on agricultural productivity in Tajikistan. Recent legislation allows farmers to obtain access to heritable land shares for private use, but reform has been geographically uneven. The break-up of state farms has occurred in some areas where agriculture has little to offer but, where high value crops are grown, land reform has hardly begun. In cases where collectivized farming persists and land has not been distributed, productivity remains low and individual households benefit little from farming.
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Securing Africa’s land for shared prosperity: A program to scale up reforms and investments

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land reform
land tenure
land tenure
land tenure systems
poverty
sustainable development
Few development challenges in Africa are as pressing and controversial as land ownership and its persistent gap between rich and poor communities. With a profound demographic shift in Africa from rural areas to the cities where half of all Africans will live by 2050, these gaps will become steadily more pronounced as governments and communities rise to the challenge of growing enough aff ordable nutritious food for all families to thrive on the continent. In some countries in the region, these gaps—allied as they are with high
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distributional dimensions of revolutionary transition : Ethiopia

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 1983
Ethiopia
land reform
poverty
sustainable development
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Towards a workable rural development strategy

Reports & Research
December, 2001
South Africa, Southern Africa
Urban Tenure
land reform
poverty
rural development
urbanization
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Report of the Advisory Panel on Food Security, Agriculture, Forestry and Development

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 1986
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
desertification
food security
land reform
poverty
sustainable development
water management
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Land Use Rights in China

Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2004
China
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
land administration
land registration
land governance
poverty
land law
agricultural and rural legislation
land policies
land reform
land management
land use
land rights
land tenure
property
government
private sector
China is a socialist country and all land in China belongs to Chinese citizens as a whole. Article 10 of the 1982 Constitution upholds the Chinese land policy that reflects the traditional view of socialism - land of the country must be owned by the country (State) or its agricultural Collectives. State-owned enterprises or other organizations, which cannot own land themselves, may use land with permission from the State.
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Gender, Household Headship and Entitlements to Land: New Vulnerabilities in Vietnam's Decollectivization

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2003
Vietnam
Land & Gender
title deeds
land titling
poverty
land law
land policies
land reform
land distribution
households
women
The process of decollectivization in Vietnam, leading up to the 1993 Land Law, ensured farming households the rights to market their own produce and to transfer, exchange, lease, inherit, and mortgage their land-use rights. These changes imply a reworking of relations between state, market, and household, but also within households. Although the allocation of agricultural land in northern Vietnam was relatively equitable, allocation by the state represents only one channel of entitlements to land.