The daily food and incomes of billions of people, particularly the rural poor, are determined by their access to land, fisheries and forests. Societies decide and regulate access to these resources through systems of tenure. Paul Munro-Faure, Deputy Director and Francesco Romano, Land Tenure Officer of the FAO Partnership, Advocacy and Capacity Development Division explain how supporting responsible governance of tenure is critical to achieving food security and allowing families to invest in sustainable production. They describe the FAO policy work, including key policy messages.
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Library ResourceVideosDecember, 2016Global
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MultimediaNovember, 2013South AfricaTheme 1 of community videos: Agriculture and Food Security
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchVideosJanuary, 2017South Africa
In 2013, South Afrika marked its 100 years without natives land. Then, Tshintsha Amakhaya (TA) - launched the Mayibuye iAfrika Campaign in 2011 at a national land reform workshop. The Campaign was intensified in 2013 - the centenary of the 1913 Native Land Act – through local actions, platform discussions, and country-wide events. The 2013 Campaign was aimed at amplifying the voices of rural women and men through supporting and connecting local struggles for land and agrarian transformation.
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Library ResourceMultimediaJune, 2020Global
This document sums up part of the presentations given during the first part of the LandVoc Community of Experts workshop, held on June 8th, 2020. This workshop focused on the origins of LandVoc, how LandVoc is being used, future uses of LandVoc and the promotion of LandVoc uptake.
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Library ResourceMultimediaJune, 2017Global, Africa, South Africa
This is a documentary collating the experiences and stories of rural communities supported by the Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA).
AFRA, in partnership with OZA and TA, assists women, youth and men residing or working on rural commercial farmland in the UMgungundlovu District to mobilise around key issues impacting on their quality of life and access to sustainable livelihoods, engaging with and influencing policies and processes that impact on their land and development rights.
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Library ResourceVideosJanuary, 2017Bangladesh
Uttaran is implementing a project titled, Sustainable Access to Land Equality-SALE' with support of European Union. SALE is the civil society component of overall access to land project that is lead by Department of Land Records and Surveys (DLRS) and Ministry of Land in Bangladesh. SALE partners are taking the main responsibility of the public awareness of vulnerable land owners, capacity support to make the vulnerable land owners sensitive land administration, to pilot transparent landless people selection and state land settlement to landless people.
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Library ResourceMultimediaNovember, 2010Laos
Thak would like to learn more about laws pertaining to land conflicts.
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Library ResourceMultimediaNovember, 2010Laos
Somboun would like others to join him in learning more about their rights.
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Library ResourceMultimediaNovember, 2010Laos
Bot talks about how land conflicts has decreased in their village.
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Library ResourceMultimediaNovember, 2010Laos
Nalee's views on the understanding of their land rights.
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