Search results

Showing items 1 through 9 of 7.

Library Resource

Human Rights, Formalisation and Women's Land Rights in Southern and Eastern Africa

January, 2005
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
land reform
women
land
customary law
property
development
tenure security
Library Resource

Brazil: Law, Land Tenure and Gender Review: Latin America

Reports & Research
December, 2005
Brazil
land access
tenure security
land policies
land law
This report on Brazil forms part of a study of law and land tenure in four Latin American countries. The study also includes a much broader regional overview covering land tenure throughout Latin America. A number of common and broad themes emerge from these studies, applicable in different degrees within the specific country contexts. A great deal of legislative reform has taken place in the region, and laws and policies are generally regarded as progressive.
Library Resource

O INCRA E OS DESAFIOS PARA A REGULARIZAÇÃO DOS TERRITÓRIOS QUILOMBOLAS ALGUMAS EXPERIÅ NCIAS

Reports & Research
January, 2006
Brazil
land access
tenure security
land policies
land law
A publicação O Incra e os desafios para a regularização dos territórios quilombolas: algumas experiências é uma oportunidade de acompanhar os percalços e os avanços no processo de regularização das terras qui O Incra e os desafios para a regularização dos territórios quilombolas 13 lombolas, apresentados por técnicos, antropóloga(o)s e juristas, com suas experiências em diferentes regiões do país.
Library Resource

Prezeis: A Luta Social por uma Política Urbana Inclusiva

Multimedia
December, 2005
Brazil
land access
tenure security
O Centro Dom Helder Câmara de Estudos e Ação Social Cendhec é uma Organização Não-Governamental e constitui-se em um centro de promoção e defesa dos direitos humanos, tendo como eixo de suas ações a defesa jurídica - social de crianças e adolescentes, bem como do direito Â moradia da população de comunidades de baixa renda, com o objetivo de desenvolver um processo político-pedagógico de educação para a cidadania. O Cendhec tem como política institucional a sistematização das experiências sócio-pedagógicos, materializadas na publicação da Coleção Cadernos do Cendhec.
Library Resource

Perspectives on Land Tenure Security in Rural and Urban SA

Reports & Research
December, 2005
South Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Urban Tenure
customary land rights
customary tenure
deed registration
tenure security
Approaches to securing tenure have been dominated by debates about whether titling advances secure land tenure and development in developing countries or whether it is either ineffectual or detrimental to socially more relevant systems. While the policies of many developing countries, including South Africa, continue to support titling approaches to securing tenure, there is widespread confirmation in the literature that title can be problematic for poor people living in both urban and rural areas.
Library Resource

Conflict in the Great Lakes Region - how is it linked with land and migration

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2005
Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Land Conflicts
land conflicts
land access
land policies
legal empowerment
land governance
tenure security
Africa’s Great Lakes Region has in recent years experienced
political strife, armed conflict and population displacements
with severe humanitarian consequences. While these events
have clearly revolved around political struggles for the control
of the state, recent research has pointed to the significance
of access to renewable natural resources as structural causes
and sustaining factors in struggles for power in the region.
Contested rights to land and natural resources are significant,
Library Resource

The UN MDGs: An arena for advancing farmers’ rights?

Policy Papers & Briefs
February, 2005
Asia, Global
community land rights
farmers
farmers associations
farming systems
tenure security
sustainable development
During the Millennium Summit of the United Nations (UN) in September 2000, 147 Head of States and Governments and 191 member-states adopted the Millennium Declaration. The Declaration embodies structured development goals and targets. The adopting countries committed to achieve its targets to reduce poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. Expert studies projected the resources required to attain the goals and what are expected to be available.