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The Pastoral Women’s Council: Empowerment for Tanzania’s Maasai

Reports & Research
January, 2008
Tanzania
Land & Investments
women
pastoralists
land rights
land grabbing
The Pastoral Women’s Council (PWC) is a community-based organisation established in 1997 in Tanzania. It was founded to promote the development of Maasai pastoralist women and children by facilitating their access to education, health, social services and economic empowerment. It seeks to address women’s marginalisation in patriarchal Maasai culture, as well as the poverty among the Maasai that has long been underpinned by land access restrictions for pastoralists, hunters and gatherers.
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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Land in Madagascar

Reports & Research
January, 2009
Madagascar
Land & Investments
land rights
land grabbing
rural development
food security
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Jatropha à Madagascar

Rapport sur l’état actuel du secteur

Reports & Research
January, 2008
Madagascar
Land & Investments
rural development
land grabbing
farmers
extractive industries
This report for GTZ, published in May 2008, analyses the potentials and risks of Jatropha plantation. With regards to land issues, it highlights the risks of land degradation and intransparent investment and lists a number of large-scale investors. The study also gives an outlook on the potential for small-scale farmers.

Published by www.jatropha.de
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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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After Daewoo? Current status and perspectives of large land aquisitions in Madagascar

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Madagascar
Land & Investments
land rights
land grabbing
extractive industries
land policies
This report is one of the 28 being published as a part of the global study. The full list of studies, and information on other initiatives by ILC relating to Commercial Pressures on Land you can find here.
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Broken Lands, Broken Lives? Causes, processes and impacts of land fragementation in the rangelands of Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Eastern Africa
Land & Investments
gender equity in access to land
land governance
food security
land policies
land grabbing
land rights
landlessness
land conflicts
common property
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
extractive industries
The report considers the causes, processes and impacts of rangeland fragmentation on pastoralists in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. Causes and processes include privatisation of resources, commercial investment, invasion of land by non-native plants, commercialisation including growth in individual enclosures, and conservation/National Parks. The impacts include increasing wealth divides and a growing inability to overcome and vulnerability to drought.
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Natural Resources and Conflict Management: The Case of Land

(Draft)

Reports & Research
January, 2012
Eastern Africa
Land & Investments
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
agriculture
land grabbing
common property
land governance
food security
land conflicts
natural resources management
environment
The main objective of this paper is to provide a) a presentation of the diversity of land related conflicts in Africa, b) an analysis of underlying causes of conflicts and experiences in conflict resolution and, c) lessons learnt and best practices from the policy and legal responses and links with enhancement of land governance in the region.
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Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET) and Indigenous Peoples in Kenya

Report on Expert Mission by a Member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Reports & Research
January, 2012
Kenya
Land & Investments
Indigenous Peoples
farmers
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
agriculture
land grabbing
common property
fisheries
rural development
land governance
land conflicts
natural resources management
environment
The LAPSSET Corridor project, a major infrastructure development project that will run from Kenya to South Sudan and Ethiopia, will impact, positively or negatively, on the lives of more than 100 million people in the three countries. Indigenous peoples will potentially suffer the most negative impacts as a result of their having been historically marginalized economically, socially and politically. The recent discovery of oil in Turkana will add to the suffering of the Turkana peoples.
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Unheard Voices: The Human Rights Impact Of Land Investments On Indigenous Communities In Gambella

Reports & Research
Ethiopia
Land & Investments
Indigenous Peoples
farmers
land rights
agriculture
land grabbing
rural development
natural resources management
The Ethiopian government has committed egregious human rights abuses to make way for agricultural land investments, in direct violation of international law, said the Oakland Institute in a new briefing paper released in New Delhi today. The briefing paper, entitled "Unheard Voices: The Human Rights Impact of Land Investments on Indigenous Communities in Gambella,” calls on Ethiopia to put an end to the illegal forced evictions of indigenous peoples in areas targeted for land investment.
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Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin Issue 4

Reports & Research
January, 2013
Kenya
Land & Investments
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
women
pastoralists
land rights
land grabbing
common property
land governance
land policies
legal empowerment
land conflicts
natural resources management
News, views and experiences of policy-makers, practitioners and communities on making rangelands secure for local users