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   Balancing The Numbers: Using Grassroots Land Valuation To Empower Communities In Land Investment Negotiations

   Conference Papers & Reports

   March, 2018

   Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Namibia, Liberia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia

   Land & Investments

   capital value (land)

   community land rights

   concession (land)

   land investments

   land law

   land valuation

   legal empowerment

   property law

   property rights

   Across Africa, Asia and Latin America, investors are increasingly approaching rural communities seeking land for logging, mining, and agribusiness ventures. Even in those situations where the investors have followed FPIC guidelines and undertaken a formal “consultation” with the community, these consultations are generally conducted in a context of significant power and information asymmetries. Part of the power imbalance comes from communities’ lack of information about the value of community lands and natural resources.

2. Library Resource

   

   Beyond Land Titles: Pastoralists Find Security Amid Climate Change in Community Land Governance Mechanisms: A Case Study of How Stronger Local Community Land Governance Promotes the Climate Resilience of Local and Indigenous Communities in Kenya

   Reports & Research

   October, 2023

   Kenya

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   land governance

   climate change

   indigenous peoples' lands

   community land rights

   local communities

   This case study presents the unique example of pastoralist communities in Kenya who had traditionally been able to rely on their customary land governance systems to ensure their access to grazing land and to help them sustain their livelihoods in the face of drought. However, land laws that were passed by the colonial and post-colonial administrations in Kenya progressively replaced customary structures and practices with artificial formal/legal structures that bore no connection to the communities’ customs.

3. Library Resource

   

   Relatório Proterras Comunitárias

   Programa De Pesquisa Sobre Delimitação De Terras Comunitárias

   Reports & Research

   October, 2013

   Mozambique

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   Land & Food Security

   advocacy

   community land rights

   local communities

   O presente Relatório descreve a forma como o projecto Pro-Terras Comunitárias foi implementado. Em particular, o projecto descreve as causas da realização desta pesquisa, a metodologia usada, analisa os dados obtidos e produz recomendações sobre como melhor proteger os direitos das comunidades e dos grupos vulneráveis. Este projecto foi implementado em 20 comunidades dos distritos de Jangamo, Homoine e Morrumbene, localizados na província de Inhambane e teve a duração de 18 meses.

    

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   The Challenge of Protecting Community Land Rights: An Investigation into Community Responses to Requests for Land and Resources 

   Reports & Research

   November, 2019

   Sub-Saharan Africa, Mozambique, Uganda, Liberia

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   community land rights

   From 2009 until 2015, Namati and its partners Centro Terra Viva (CTV) in Mozambique, Land and Equity Movement in Uganda (LEMU), and Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) in Liberia supported more than 100 communities to document and protect their customary land rights.