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Asia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines
This report is a summary of the 2013 CSO Land Reform Monitoring papers in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and the Philippines. It focuses on land conflicts including killings, harassments, land-related detainments, and evictions experienced in the seven countries. It also includes interventions and principles which ANGOC and LWA call for the government and institutions to adhere to in addressing such issues.
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Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, Southern Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, South America, Africa, Asia
This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global, regional, and national levels, and—supported by the latest knowledge and research—explain why. This year’s report is the first to also look forward a year, offering analysis of the potential opportunities and challenges that we will face in achieving food and nutrition security in 2015.
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The present Act introduces some amendments to the Land Transaction Act of 9 December 1992. In particular, the Act amends, inter alia, article 1 on Objectives; article 3 on Exceptions from the scope; article 5 on Requirements; article 9 on Responsibility and tasks; articles 11 to 15 have been repealed; article 16 on Decision and official statement; article 17 on Delivery of the decision; article 18 on Appeal cases; article 23 on Information and edition; article 24a on Supervisions of Land Transaction Office; article 26 Annulment; article 35 on Implementation Ordinances.
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The vast majority of land in Afghanistan is untitled and unregistered, further complicating the Afghan state’s ability to help sustainably resolve land disputes. The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and the Afghanistan Land Authority sought to address this problem by testing a new model of engaging community dispute resolution in formal land registration. This report examines the lessons learned from the pilot and proposes recommendations for reform.
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A Summary of Progress from UNEP’s Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding Programme 2008-2015
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the different outputs for each pillar and the results achieved. It also summarizes key lessons, with a future outlook for UNEP in the coming years under the ECP framework. ECP delivery partners and partnerships are also duly recognized. It also informs UNEP’s approach for address- ing con ict risks and peacebuilding opportunities from natural resources and the environment in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in- cluding the newly established Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Latin America and the Caribbean
El investigador belga François Houtart acaba de publicar el libro Agriculturas Campesinas en Latinoamérica, una edición que recoge artículos académicos escritos por cientistas sociales de Latinoamérica (seis de México, tres de Bolivia, dos de Francia, dos de Brasil y, respectivamente uno de Perú, Ecuador, Argentina, Guatemala y Cuba), que participaron en un evento internacional del mismo nombre. El documento fue presentado recientemente en La ciudad de La Paz, Bolivia, por el Instituto Para el Desarrollo Rural de Sudamérica (IPDRS).
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ABSTRACTED FROM INTRODUCTION:
At the beginning of this textbook, the authors would like to make two suggestions about how to approach the study of property law.
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More than a century after the abolition of slavery in Brazil, the term ‘quilombo’ continues to evolve new meanings, not all of them associated with its common definition as a runaway slave community. In this article, I discuss the significance of quilombo in its diverse social, political and historical contexts, demonstrating how changes in the uses and meanings of the term reveal broader trans-historical, juridical, political and metaphorical processes.
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Forced displacement and the misappropriation of land, often through violence and intimidation, have been a defining feature of Colombia’s internal armed conflict. These human rights violations and abuses have targeted above all Indigenous, Afro-descendant and peasant farmer communities. For these communities, whose identities and livelihoods are intimately linked with the land on which they live and work, the trauma of displacement has been particularly acute.
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Cambodia, Asia, South-Eastern Asia
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