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    Statutory recognition of customary land rights in Africa

    An investigation into best practices for law making and implementation

    Reports & Research
    January, 2010
    Africa
    land rights
    land policies

    Recognizing and protecting customary land rights is a critical component of protecting and defending the land rights of the rural poor. This study is founded upon the notion that protecting and enforcing the land claims of rural Africans may be best done by passing laws that elevate existing customary land claims up into nations' formal legal frameworks and make customary land rights equal in weight and validity to documented land claims.

  2. Library Resource

    PUSHBACK: Local Power, Global Realignment

    State of Rights and Resources 2010-2011

    Reports & Research
    Global
    Land & Investments
    Indigenous Peoples
    local communities
    land rights
    land grabbing
    forestry
    land policies
    climate change
    legal empowerment
    land conflicts
    natural resources management
    environment

    If 2009 was the end of the hinterland and the beginning of a new globalized forest era, 2010 was a year of pushback. Worldwide, the news was full of reports of forest communities and Indigenous Peoples pushing back at land grabs and shaping policy at the national and global levels, and of governments countering and trying to contain community rights. Some governments and private investors accepted or even embraced the new players at the table and began to promote fairer business and conservation models.

  3. Library Resource

    Focus on Africa: Uganda Lesson Brief, Displaced Persons and Land Rights

    Focus on Africa: Uganda Lesson Brief, Displaced Persons and Land Rights

    Reports & Research
    January, 2011
    Africa
    Indigenous Peoples
    local communities
    landlessness
    land rights
    rural development
    land governance
    land policies
    land conflicts
    advocacy

    The following lesson brief examines the land issues confronting returnees as well as the IDPs who remain in the camps in Uganda. In 2005, between 2.1 million and 2.4 million people were displaced by conflicts in northern Uganda.

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    Women’s Empowerment to foster Food Security

    Case studies from developing countries

    Reports & Research
    January, 2011
    Global
    women
    land rights
    agriculture
    rural development
    land policies
    food security

    In this booklet the Sustainable Economic Development Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs explains the bottlenecks women face in the production, preparation, processing and trading of food. The booklet also presents an overview of Dutch-funded organisations and projects focused on food security that are working to enhance the economic empowerment of women.


    The publication starts by arguing that the first condition for sustainable food production is enhancing women’s land rights.

  6. Library Resource

    Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Land in the Lao PDR

    Reports & Research
    December, 2009
    Laos
    Land & Investments
    land investments
    land acquisitions
    land grabbing
    land policies
    land law

    TAKEN FROM WEBSITE INTRODUCTION: This study by GTZ on behalf of BMZ about FDI in land highlights dramatic increase in land concessions, based on data collected in two provinces for an inventory, which GTZ conducted as no official data on land concessions is available. The Lao PDR is a small land-locked country in South-East Asia with a total area of 236,800 m2 with over 80% mountainous surface. It is estimated that all together concessoins for 2-3 million hectar land were granted, representing 13% of Lao PDR's total land area.

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    Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Land in Cambodia

    Reports & Research
    December, 2009
    Cambodia
    Land & Investments
    land grabbing
    extractive industries
    tenure security
    land ownership
    land distribution
    land reform
    land investments
    land acquisitions
    poverty
    land policies
    land law

    This BMZ comissioned report by GTZ highlights the dramatic increase of land concessions and rising inequality in land distribution in Cambodia. Parts of the study refer to an earlier report by Uch Sophas “Foreign Direct Investment in Land for Biomass Production in Cambodia”. The South-East Asian country Cambodia has an area of 181,035 km2. The Government of Cambodia is adapting its activities to attract FDI, which has lead to a steady increase especially since 2007.

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    Decentralising land management

    The experience of Madagascar

    Reports & Research
    January, 2010
    Madagascar
    Land & Investments
    land rights
    land grabbing
    land policies

    Land appropriation in developing countries has boosted interest in land policy. Issue 4 of Perspective sheds light on the issue, by analysing the novel policy of decentralized land management adopted in Madagascar.

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