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Op-Ed: Putting land at the heart of radical economic transformation – a perspective from the ground

Institutional & promotional materials
April, 2017
South Africa
Land & Food Security
agricultural and rural legislation
The dominant debates about land in South Africa often focus on the transfer of land from a few white hands to the black majority. The discussion seldom unpacks who constitutes the “black majority” as this is not a homogeneous group. In instances where the debate touches on land use, again the focus is often limited to agricultural production and whether or not small-scale farmers are productive. This narrow framework clearly has to be broadened and we need to ask deeper and more strategic questions than the ones we have been asking.
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The State of Food and Agriculture

Biofuels: Prospects, Risks and Opportunities

Institutional & promotional materials
October, 2008
Global
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
food security
More than at any time in the past three decades, the world’s attention is focused this year on food and agriculture. A variety of factors have combined to raise food prices to the highest levels since the 1970 (in real terms), with serious implications for food security among poor populations around the world.
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USING THE JUSTICE SYSTEM TO PROMOTE INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICE

Institutional & promotional materials
July, 2018
Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
land policies
land reform
The Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA) partnered with the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), a South African human rights organisation, to launch a class action lawsuit against the Government of South Africa on behalf of a class of farm dwellers known as labour tenants. Under the 1996 Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Act, labour tenants were granted rights to apply for ownership of the land they occupied. However, the government has failed to implement this law, and 19,000 labour tenant claims remain pending.
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Panfleto do Centro Terra Viva - Estudos e Advocacia Ambiental (CTV)

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2016
Mozambique
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
advocacy
land law
local communities
O Centro Terra Viva – Estudos e Advocacia Ambiental (CTV) é uma instituição não governamental moçambicana, de investigação e intervenção ambiental, que congrega profissionais de diferentes áreas fundamentais para a gestão do ambiente e dos recursos naturais, com destaque para o Direito Ambiental, Conservação e Gestão Ambiental, Informação e Educação Ambiental, Economia Rural e Sociologia Ambiental.
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Advocacy poster for state land allocation for land less people in Bangladesh

Institutional & promotional materials
October, 2012
Bangladesh
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
advocacy
capacity development
informal settlements
women
Uttaran is the pioneer leading national non-government to promote rights for landless people of Bangladesh since 1985. As part of its activities under land less people and state land settlement, it has already piloted the participatory land less selection process and state land identification. The process has been accelerated with number of communication materials such as posters, leaflets and brochures. This poster has described the discrimination between men and women during state land allocation and also promote advocacy agenda with government.
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Land issues top October development agenda as ECA, partners launch multiple studies across Africa

Institutional & promotional materials
October, 2012
Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
development
agricultural land management
land policies
food security
sustainable land management
land administration
land
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Investment in land and water : proceedings of the regional consultation, Bangkok, 2001.

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2002
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam
Land & Food Security
food security
land
Summary report, recommendations and text of the "Bangkok Declaration" the total land area of the Asia and the Pacific region is 3,001 million ha or 22.9 percent of the world’s land area. However, adverse soils, climate and topographic factors limit the possibilities for sustainable agricultural production in about 86 percent of the region.Examines the constraints facing Asian countries in developing agriculture, sharing resources and obtaining food security in the face of climate change and other difficulties.
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Promoting Land Rights in Vietnam: A Multi-sector Advocacy Coalition Approach

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2013
Vietnam
Land & Food Security
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
food security
land policies
land law
Land rights have become highly contested in Vietnam in recent years. Vietnam‟s land endowment is one of the lowest in the world: each agricultural household holds, on average, less than 0.5 hectare. Access to land is critical to social and economic development in the future. The national priority on “industrialization and modernization” has placed new demands on agricultural and forest land for urban-industrial expansion. The high level of public concern over land tenure and its links to political and social stability have led to widespread calls for revision of the 2003 Land Law.
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Law for State Land Management in Cambodia

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2009
Cambodia
Land & Food Security
legal empowerment
food security
land policies
land law
Access to land empowered by law is a crucial issue for sustainable development of a modern, prosperous Cambodia where the social and ecological responsibilities are well developed and embedded in a State Land Management. The State is the main actor in the land sector and has to guarantee State public property which cannot be transformed into private property. Cambodia shows still a high rural poverty rate, land concentration and anarchy in illegal land possession, illegal claim of State land and protected areas as privately owned and unlawful logging.
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Peasant responses to agricultural land conversion and mechanism of rural social differentiation in Hung Yen province, Northern Vietnam

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2011
Vietnam
Land & Food Security
Urban Tenure
food security
land distribution
land reform
farmers
Agricultural accumulation has been one of the main source determined the social differentiation in Vietnamese countryside. The complexities of agrarian changes under the post - socialist industrialization with high rate of agricultural land conversion in recent context reveal the new forms of capital accumulation and social differentiation. This research investigates how land conversion process to industrial zones and clusters affected to the way that different groups of peasant households accumulate their resources.