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A LUTA PELA EFETIVAÇÃO DOS DIREITOS ÉTNICOS E TERRITORIAIS DAS COMUNIDADES QUILOMBOLAS EM CONFLITOS SOCIOAMBIENTAIS

REFLEXÕES CRÍTICAS SOBRE A ATUAÇÃO EXTENSIONISTA NA DEFESA DOS DIREITOS ÉTNICOS E TERRITORIAIS DA COMUNIDADE QUILOMBOLA DE QUEIMADAS

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2017
Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Brazil
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
community land rights
disturbance
extractive industries
land conflicts
land dispute
land governance
land inheritance rights
land rights
local communities
mining
right of first occupancy
territory
Este artigo possui o objetivo de analisar, criticamente, a ação extensionista promovida na defesa dos direitos étnicos e territoriais da comunidade quilombola de Queimadas, no procedimento administrativo para a certificação da desconformidade do empreendimento minerário denominado “Projeto Serro”, à legislação de uso e ocupação do solo do Município do Serro.
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Discursos sobre o Regime de Propriedade da Terra em Moçambique

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2017
Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
land governance
mining
land investments
foreign investment
investment funds
land conflicts
community land rights
government
local communities
extractive industries
Os discursos e posicionamentos sobre o regime de propriedade da terra em Moçambique não são coincidentes. Este artigo apresenta as percepções que os diferentes stakeholders (Estado, Comunidades locais, sector privado, Investidores, Sociedade Civil, etc.) envolvidos na relação com a terra possuem em relação à questão fundiária no País, sobretudo no atual contexto marcado pelo grande fluxo de projetos de investimento, de investidores nacionais e estrangeiros, com interesses no agronegócio, na exploração mineira e exploração de hidrocarbonetos.
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Land tenure in rural lowland Myanmar

From historical perspectives to contemporary realities in the Dry Zone and the Delta

Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
October, 2017
Myanmar
land administration
land registration
land titling
land governance
land policies
land reform
land management
farmland
agriculture
land
land loans
landlessness
land access
land conflicts
land tenure
tenure security
advocacy
farmers
landowners
This study emerged out of an identified need to document social processes leading to land insecurity, and those leading to investment and sustainable use of lands by rural populations. Focusing on the Delta and Dry Zone, the main paddy producing regions of Myanmar, this analysis unravels the powers at play in shaping rural households’ relationship to land.
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Territorialidades en transición: pobladores desplazados por la violencia del conflicto armado colombiano y la resignificación de su territorio

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2017
Colombia
Land Conflicts
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
displacement
land conflicts
local communities
Indigenous Peoples
land distribution
Resumen La violencia armada en Colombia obliga a las personas a abandonar su territorio para salvaguardar la vida. Cuatro estudios de caso con poblaciones desplazadas (mujeres jefas de hogar, afrodescendientes, indígenas, campesinos) fueron emprendidos para aproximarse a la comprensión de dos procesos principales en los que se ven inmersos los migrantes forzados en búsqueda de superar la pérdida de su lugar en el mundo: desterritorialización y reterritorialización.
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Land for infrastructure development: compulsory acquisition and compensation of unregistered/undocumented land in Kenya

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Kenya
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
cadastral administration
cadastral register
capital value (land)
communal ownership
compensation
compulsory acquisitions
deed registration
displacement
eminent domain
land administration
land dispute
land dispute resolution
land governance
land investments
land ownership
land registration
land titling
land use
land valuation
management rights
natural resources management
research
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
title deeds
women
youth
Kenya’s Vision 2030 aims at transforming the country into a newly industrialized middle income country

and infrastructural development is high on the agenda to achieve this. Competing land uses and existing

interests in land make the use of eminent domain by government in acquiring land inevitable. However

most of the land earmarked for compulsory acquisition comprises of un- registered land whose interests
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Enclosure, dispossession, and the green economy: new contours of internal displacement in Liberia and Sierra Leone?

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2017
Liberia, Sierra Leone
Land in post-conflict settings
displacement
dispossession
land conflicts
land governance
local communities
natural disasters
natural resources management
Through a review of recent writings in political ecology and agrarian studies, this paper appraises the potential for emerging forms of ‘green economy’ initiatives to catalyze new forms of internal displacement in West Africa, with specific emphasis on the postwar contexts of Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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Triggers of Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Ghana: A Non-Parametric Analysis of Stakeholders’ Perspectives

Journal Articles & Books
April, 2017
Ghana
Land Conflicts
land governance
land use
land access
land conflicts
water rights
farmers
In Ghana, farmer-herder conflicts have become widespread and increasingly assume a violent dimension. Competition over access to and use of land and water resources is at the center of the conflicts. However, competition does not automatically result in conflicts. The conflicts are driven by triggering activities of both farmers and herders. This study identifies triggers of farmer-herder conflicts in the Upper West Region of Ghana and tests the level of agreement among key stakeholder groups on the triggers of these conflicts.