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    Urban Agriculture for sustainable poverty alleviation and Food Security

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2008
    Global
    agriculture
    environment
    farmers
    food security
    natural resources management

    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.

  2. Library Resource

    World Economic and Social Survey 2011

    The Great Green Technological Transformation

    Reports & Research
    January, 2011
    Global
    farmers
    agrarian reform
    agriculture
    food security
    natural resources management
    environment

    Enormous improvements in human welfare have taken place over the past two centuries, but these have been unevenly distributed and have come at a lasting cost of degradation of our natural environment. At the same time, we cannot stop the engines of growth, because much more economic progress is still needed in order for people in developing countries to have a decent living. But using the traditional environmentally irresponsible development paths is no longer defensible.

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    Issue Brief 2: Engaging the ASEAN: Toward a Regional Advocacy on Land Rights

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    Asia
    farmers
    land rights
    rural development
    food security

    This issue brief argues that before ASEAN could engage in
    meaningful dialogue with NGOs, it will first have to grapple with
    a number of issues, namely, (1) food security for farmers that
    likewise promotes poverty eradication and rural development; (2)
    property rights as a fundamental human right of farmers; (3)
    ensuring justice in poverty eradication and rural development
    efforts; and (4) economic growth as a precursor for social
    development.

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    Issue Brief 1: Land Issues in South Asia: Assesing SAARC

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    Southern Asia
    farmers
    agrarian reform
    land rights
    agriculture
    food security

    This paper calls attention to the ambiguity of SAARC’s position
    on the importance of land rights, as well as to the absence
    of an official declaration from SAARC on land rights and issues
    as these relate to farmers in the region. Judging by its official
    documents, SAARC has no clear profile of the poor in South Asia.
    At the minimum, SAARC needs to recognize the interrelatedness
    of poverty alleviation, agricultural production, food security and
    land rights/access to land. SAARC has yet to implement a program

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    Focus on Land in Africa: Mali Lesson Brief, Farmer-Herder Conflicts

    Focus on Land in Africa: Mali Lesson Brief, Farmer-Herder Conflicts

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Africa
    farmers
    landlessness
    agrarian reform
    land rights
    agriculture
    rural development
    land policies
    food security
    natural resources management

    This lesson brief explores the multiple independent phenomena that affect relationships between farmers and herders, as well as the nature of their conflicts over natural resources in Mali. It is part of the Focus on Land in Africa: Land Tenure and Property Rights online educational tool.

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    ActionAid publication ‘Failing the rural poor: Aid, agriculture and the Millennium Development Goals’ highlights the particularly harsh effect of the current global food crisis on rural women

    Reports & Research
    Global
    farmers
    women
    land rights
    agriculture
    rural development
    extractive industries
    food security
    natural resources management
    gender equity in access to land

    The 2008 report by ActionAid suggests that, since women and girls are overrepresented among poor and excluded people, the food crisis is having a particularly harsh impact on them.  According to the FAO, even before the current crisis women made up 60% of the chronically hungry.

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    UNDP paper discusses ‘Decentralization and Women’s Rights to Land’

    Reports & Research
    January, 2008
    Global
    Indigenous Peoples
    farmers
    women
    landlessness
    agrarian reform
    land rights
    agriculture
    rural development
    land governance
    land policies
    food security
    natural resources management
    gender equity in access to land
    environment

    [adapted from UNDP] May, 2008- This UNDP discussion paper ‘Pro-Poor Land Tenure Reform and Democratic Governance’ provides a review of how different types of land tenure reform relate to decentralization and local governance, in theory and in practice.  The discussion suggests that in order to create more democratic and transparent local management of land resources, special mechanisms to protect women against direct and indirect discrimination, as well as the establishment of local land committees and land tribunals for conflict resolution are needed.

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