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Armenia and FAO

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2019
Asia, Armenia
sustainable development
natural resources management
Over the past 20 years, FAO has played an active role in supporting Armenia’s national development plans and emergency projects aimed at increasing agricultural productivity and improving the country’s food security. The Organization has provided technical assistance ranging from developments in the agriculture sector to fighting transboundary animal diseases, natural resources management, land administration and forestry and fisheries interventions.
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LEGEND Land Policy Bulletin 12

Inclusive business and agriculture: what are we learning from the field?

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2019
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
land governance
land improvement
This bulletin distils lessons from a sugarcane cooperative in Malawi and a forestry investment scheme in Sierra Leone, drawing on the five pillars of inclusive business as identified in the 2018 LEGEND state of the debate report.
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Artificialisés, accaparés, appauvris les sols sont assaillis de tous côtés

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2019
France, Global
estate management
land investments
land management
land policies
land reform
land use
Date: 3 janvier 2019

Source: Reporterre.net

Par: Marie Astier
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Reconsidering Sovereignty, Ownership and Consent in Natural Resource Contracts: From Concepts to Practice

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2019
Global
Land & Investments
agriculture
environment
extractive industries
land acquisitions
land grabbing
land investments
mining
natural resources management
A wave of commercial investments in the natural resource sectors has rekindled debates about the place of contracts in the interface between economic governance and control over natural resources.
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Understanding Land in the Context of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: A Brief History of Land in Economics

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2019
Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Global
Land & Investments
compulsory acquisitions
farmland
food security
land acquisitions
land economics
land grabbing
land investments
land tenure
land tenure systems
In economics, land has been traditionally assumed to be a fixed production factor, both in terms of quantity supplied and mobility, as opposed to capital and labor, which are usually considered to be mobile factors, at least to some extent. Yet, in the last decade, international investors have expressed an unexpected interest in farmland and in land-related investments, with the demand for land brusquely rising at an unprecedented pace.
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Indigenous Land Titling Guide

Training Resources & Tools
January, 2019
South America
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
formal tenure
indigenous peoples' land rights
indigenous peoples' lands
Indigenous Peoples
indigenous people's tenure
land rights
land tenure
land tenure systems
land titling
tenure security
title deeds
Ensuring the collective survival of indigenous peoples requires guaranteeing their rights and access to traditional lands. In Colombia, indigenous peoples’ struggle for ancestral land rights has been ongoing for more than four centuries, marked by collective mobilization and pressure before official entities.
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Overcoming Land Data Silos : The role of data ecosystems in achieving global development goals

Principle(s) Addressed Use Open Data, Open Standards, Open Source & Open Innovation; Be Collaborative

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2019
Global
open access (land)
open data
When disasters displace people, land records and geospatial data are key to protecting property rights and building resilience.When land conflicts occur, it is clear that conciliation efforts would benefit from access to data and evidence. In order for marginalized peoples and communities to gain control of their rights, there is no doubt that data, information and knowledge are indispensable.
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Making Land Rights Work: ZOA Land Rights Guidelines

Manuals & Guidelines
January, 2019
Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
capacity development
land conflicts
land rights
natural disasters
Secure access to land and secure use of land, for housing-, agricultural- and other purposes is one of the cornerstones of making sustainable, positive development possible. As ZOA provides relief, hope and recovery to people impacted by conflicts and disasters, addressing land rights issues will need to be a permanent point of attention in our work.
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Making Land Rights Work: ZOA Land Rights Guidelines Video

Videos
January, 2019
Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Land Conflicts
capacity development
land conflicts
land rights
natural disasters
Teaser for ZOA's new land rights guidelines developed with input from many of our peers and partners, based on the work done by many others in the field and supported by the Knowledge Management Fund (KMF).
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GLOBAL INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT DATABASE

Training Resources & Tools
January, 2019
Kenya
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
displacement
open data
About the risk model tool

This platform details the first results generated by our global disaster displacement risk model. It presents data on displacement risk associated with sudden-onset disasters. The main objective is to start presenting evidence on how to address internal displacement from a prospective point of view by assessing the likelihood of such population movements taking place in the future.