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   Tackling gender issues in sustainable land management

   Training Resources & Tools

   January, 2002

   Kenya, Nicaragua, India

   gender equity in access to land

   land management

   women

   This toolkit provides a framework for main-streaming gender in rural development activities.It addresses the lack of conceptual and practical tools in the area of sustainable land management. Its modular design allows for individual approaches and targets development staff at the project and programme levels, with the aim of helping them to find practical ways of dealing with gender issues in rural development activities.

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   Incidence and impact of land conflict in Uganda

   Uganda

   gender equity in access to land

   property rights

   While there is a large, though inconclusive, literature on the impact of land titles in Africa, little attention has been devoted to the study of land conflict, despite evidence on increasing incidence of such conflicts. The authors use data from Uganda to explore who is affected by land conflicts, whether recent legal changes have helped to reduce their incidence, and to assess their impact on productivity.

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   Research on land markets in South Asia : what have we learned?

   Asia, Southern Asia

   agriculture

   gender equity in access to land

   land rights

   The authors review the literature on land markets in South Asia to clarify what's known and to highlight unresolved issues. They report that: (1) We have a good understanding of why sharecropping persists and why it can be superior to other standard agricultural contracts. We have less understanding of what determines the relative efficiency of sharecropping in different environments and why other apparently superior contractual relationships are rare.

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   Certification and equity: Applying an “equity framework” to compare certification schemes across product sectors and scales

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2013

   Global

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   land equity

   Indigenous Peoples

   This paper applies a comprehensive equity framework to compare the priorities and trade-offs of different environmental and social certification schemes. The schemes selected for comparison are the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes (PEFC), the Fairtrade Labelling Organization (FLO), and the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA).