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    Focus on Africa: Uganda Lesson Brief, Women and Customary Land Rights

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Africa

    This lesson brief explores the struggles women face in benefiting from their customary rights. It is part of the Uganda module on the Focus on Africa: Land Tenure and Property Rights online educational tool.

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    Focus on Africa: Uganda Lesson Brief, Land for Private Investors and Economic Development

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Africa

    This lesson brief examines the law and practice of allocating land in the protected estate for private investment. It is part of the Uganda module on the Focus on Africa: Land Tenure and Property Rights online educational tool. Private investors need land to conduct their business.

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    Focus on Land in Africa: Tanzania Lesson Brief, Wildlife Management Areas

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Africa

    This lesson brief explores the decentralization of wildlife user rights and their impact on local communities in Tanzania.

  4. Library Resource

    Responding to the urban water challenge: advocacy and guide and action handbook

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    Global

    This publication has been developed by UN-Water as an advocacy guide ahead of the World Water Day 2011 (WWD 2011).

  5. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2008
    Global

    The position paper provides an updated insight on the role that urban agriculture can play in pursuing the Millennium Development Goals and more specifically MDG 1 and 7, related to poverty reduction, food security, and environmental sustainability. It intends to raise awareness and inform decision makers and planners of the different aspects of urban agriculture, which entails a broad range of activities, related to the food production and distribution chain, within natural resources planning and use including urban and peri-urban forestry.

  6. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2008
    Global

    The position paper provides an updated insight on the role that urban agriculture can play in pursuing the Millennium Development Goals and more specifically MDG 1 and 7, related to poverty reduction, food security, and environmental sustainability. It intends to raise awareness and inform decision makers and planners of the different aspects of urban agriculture, which entails a broad range of activities, related to the food production and distribution chain, within natural resources planning and use including urban and peri-urban forestry.

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    Focus on Land in Africa: Ghana Lesson Brief, Rising Demand for Land and Tenure Insecurity in Ghana

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Africa

    This lesson brief discusses how statuatory law and customary law  frame the rights of customary authorities to transact in the land that they govern, and compare this to what is happening in practice.

  8. Library Resource

    Focus on Land in Africa: Ghana Lesson Brief, Women's Evolving Land Rights

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Africa

    This lesson brief presents the situations faced by modern Ghanaian women and compare their evolving land rights across regions. It is part of the Focus on Land in Africa: Land Tenure and Property Rights online educational tool.

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    Focus on Land in Africa: Ghana Lesson Brief, Land Administration at a Crossroads

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Africa

    This lesson brief discusses projects developed to reinvigorate the process of land registration formalization in peri-urban Ghana, their impacts, and the risks of unintended consequences for women, pastorlaists and the poor if their rights are explicitly taken into account.

  10. Library Resource

    Focus on Land in Africa: Mali Lesson Brief, Women, Inheritance, and Islam

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Africa

    This lesson brief discusses the stratutory, customary, and religious frameworks governing women's rights to land in Mali and offers suggestions as to how these rights might be strenghtened.  It is part of the Focus on Land in Africa: Land Tenure and Property Right online educational tool.

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