Despite global gender equality gains in
education, life expectancy, and labor force participation,
two areas of persistent inequality remain: asset gaps and
women's agency. In many developing countries, including
Papua New Guinea (PNG), land and natural resources are
citizens' key assets. This briefing note, centered on
field research in north fly district explores the process of
negotiation and the progress in implementation of the
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Library ResourceFebruary, 2014Guinea, Papua New Guinea
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1951South Africa, Bolivia, United States of America
An international journal of forestry and forest industries
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Library ResourceVideosMay, 2017Kenya, United States of America
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1974Kenya
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The case of Olkiramatian Group Ranch, Kenya
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2009KenyaIn Kenya, the pastoral Maasai’s districts have been the vanguard in rangeland tenure transitions and experimentation as pastoralists’ territory gave way to communal group ranches and to individual land holdings under diverse land-use activities. The tenure transformations have been accompanied by institutional and socio-economic changes that have had bearings on local communities’ capacities for collective action, pastoral livelihoods, and environmental sustainability.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJune, 2014Kenya
A focus edition on family farming would hardly be credible without giving the family farmers themselves an opportunity to speak. We talked to Moses Munyi, the owner of a six-hectare farm in Embu, Kenya, about his everyday life and about his views of the prospects for farming in the future.
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An in-depth analysis of the laws and practices related to land expropriation for the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos, Nigeria
Conference Papers & ReportsSeptember, 2017Africa, NigeriaThis article was submitted for the UN Economic Commission for Africa “2017 Conference on Land Policy in Africa” Nov. 14-17 2017, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
This article sheds light on a series of events that triggered escalating tensions over land and resources in the coastal communities of Lagos, Nigeria. This article provides an in-depth analysis of Nigeria’s laws on expropriation and the processes of acquiring land and compensating landholders in the Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ) case. Specifically, the analysis addresses the following research questions:
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJuly, 2013Tanzania
The history of surveys and mapping in Tanzania has been influenced by two European cultures through its colonization; first by the German and then by the British. During the German Administration, surveys and mapping activities were carried out by the Department of Surveys and Agriculture from 1893 to 1914. When the British took over the mandate for the territory after World War I, the also used the “old” German maps until when they when they started the surveys to produce other topographic maps from 1946. In 1961, the Surveys and Mapping Division was created.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2016Namibia
Experiences in developing business process for Flexible Land Tenure Act implementation in Gobabis Namibia
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Library ResourceMultimediaMarch, 2016Namibia
Experiences in developing business process for Flexible Land Tenure Act implementation in Gobabis Namibia
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