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Promouvoir une gouvernance foncière inclusive et participative au Sénégal

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2023
Africa, Senegal
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
community forestry
common lands
communal territory
community land rights
local communities
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INTERNATIONAL SOFT-LAW INSTRUMENTS AND GLOBAL RESOURCE GOVERNANCE: REFLECTIONS ON THE VOLUNTARY GUIDELINES ON THE RESPONSIBLE GOVERNANCE OF TENURE

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Global
Land & Investments
VGGT
land policies
land use
land investments
land rights
land access
land tenure
local communities
extractive industries
This article reflects on the Tenure Guidelines as a tool for addressing resource governance challenges. It outlines the process through which the Tenure Guidelines were developed and reviews key features of their content, and then focuses on two issues: the legal significance of the VGGT, and the nature of initiatives to advance their implementation.
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The participation of urban displaced populations in (in)formal markets: contrasting experiences in Kampala, Uganda

Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
August, 2017
Uganda
Urban Tenure
displacement
land markets
urban areas
urban population
An estimated 60 per cent of the world’s 17 million refugees currently reside in cities, where they often lack access to financial assistance and legal protection.⁽¹⁾ In their absence, displaced populations depend on participation in formal and, more frequently, informal markets for livelihood generation.
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Understanding changing land access and use by the rural poor in Ghana

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2017
Ghana
customary land rights
farmers
farmland
land access
land tenure systems
local communities
poverty
rural areas
rural development
rural population
tenure security
In Ghana 70 per cent of the population are smallholder farmers who depend on the land for their basic needs. Growing competition for this resource is having significant impacts on rural livelihoods and governance as land changes hands. This study highlights the key drivers of pressure on rural land and their communities, such as population growth, urbanisation and acquisition of land by new actors, including government and business.
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Participatory Land Use Planning as a Tool for Community Empowerment in Northern Tanzania

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2010
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
advocacy
agrarian reform
agropastoral systems
grazing
grazing land rights
land access
land acquisitions
land allocation
land use
land use mapping
land-use planning
natural resources management
pastoral land rights
pastoral lands
pastoralists
sustainable land management
This paper presents several case studies to show how the Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT) has been working within Tanzania’s legal and policy framework to support a diverse range of pastoralists, agro-pastoralists and hunter-gatherers, all of whom face fundamental threats from external appropriation of, or encroachment on, lands and natural resources. The work also responds to local needs to rationalise resource use rights amongst competing local groups, such as farmers and livestock keepers.
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Leave no one behind: what is the role of community-led urban development?

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2016
Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand
Urban Tenure
informal settlements
land access
local communities
squatters
By 2050, two-thirds of people worldwide will live in urban areas. Many city dwellers in the global South live in informal settlements, without access to basic services. The global Sustainable Development Goals seek to redress this inequity with an overarching aim to ‘leave no one behind’. This paper examines what organised low-income community networks are already doing to ensure no one is ‘left behind’ in urban development.
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Landless women, hopeless women? Gender, land and decentralisation in Niger

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2006
Niger
women
landlessness
This paper is a summary of a regional case study on gender, land and decentralisation. The main study has two parts: three portraits of women showing different examples of access to natural resources and local leadership; and a general report based on the portraits and on interviews carried out in seven study sites in Maradi and Zinder regions in Niger.