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Conservation communautaire au Cameroun

Enjeux, défis et perspectives analysés à partir du cadre juridique national, des pratiques et de la perception des acteurs

Reports & Research
May, 2022
Cameroon
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land information systems
forest law
Depuis les années 1980, les efforts de conservation dans les pays en développement ont tenté de concilier les objectifs de la biologie de conservation et le développement social. Les approches sont multiples. Cependant la conservation intégrée construite autour des aires protégées reste le modèle le plus soutenu par les politiques et les stratégies des pays (Busquet, 2006 ; Clarke, 2019).
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Projet de recherche-action « Promotion d’une gouvernance foncière inclusive par l’amélioration des droits fonciers des femmes au Sénégal » dans le Bassin arachidier, les Niayes et la Vallée du Fleuve Sénégal

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Senegal
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
land equity
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
rights in divorce
equal rights
land governance
land inheritance rights
land investments
L’importance de l’accès à la terre aux femmes n’est plus à démontrer, eu égard aux impératifs liés à la réalisation des objectifs de développement durable. En dépit de leur rôle essentiel et de leur contribution à l’agriculture et à la sécurité alimentaire, elles sont victimes de discriminations en termes d’accès et de contrôle sur les terres, ainsi que de la distribution des revenus tirés de l’exploitation.
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Rethinking the interstate Succession Act and the Little Land security It Provides for Women in Polygamous Marriages : Case of Zambia

Rethinking the Interstate Succession Act in Zambia

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2022
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
gender equity in access to land
land inheritance rights
customary land rights
tenure insecurity
women
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What the Commission of Inquiry into Ancestral Land Rights and Restitution Claims Found

May, 2021
Namibia
Land & Food Security
Urban Tenure
land
eviction
land administration
farmers
In Uganda land remains the most sought–after natural resource;but legal and structural mechanisms have not been effective in addressing illegal land evictions faced by vulnerable communities. Most local investors have taken advantage of the structural gaps in land administration which have exacerbated the issuance of multiple titles. This has been compounded by Uganda’s weak justice system and excesses perpetrated by some police officers and the military. In recent times Uganda has witnessed catastrophic forced evictions across the country.
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Traditional leaders in Zambia shift gender norms and strengthen women’s land rights

July, 2021
Zambia
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Urban Tenure
land
development
government
women
grassroots organizations
occupation
government
For many decades communities in West and Central Africa have been facing industrial oil palm plantations encroaching onto their community land. With the false promise of bringing ‘developmentand jobs;corporations;backed up by the support of the governments;have been granted millions of hectares of land under concessions for industrial oil palm plantations. The results of this expansion have been disastrous for communities living in and around these industrial plantations and in particular for women.
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Women’s land rights: Customary rules and formal laws in the pastoral areas of Ethiopia – complementary or in conflict?

July, 2021
Ethiopia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
land tenure
poverty
food security
resilience
women
land
families
rural areas
agriculture
Secure land tenure is key to eradicating poverty;increasing agricultural investment and ensuring food security;and is an essential element of climate action and climate resilience. Yet women have far weaker rights to land than men. These disadvantages exist broadly and with few exceptions globally and are especially limiting to the well-being of women and their families in rural areas;where land is the basis for livelihood;identity;social standing and social security.
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Local land grabbers evict villagers at night; foreign investors cultivate the same lands the next day

September, 2021
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
land
customary tenure
sustainable development
environment
dispossession
displacement
An educational resource that debunks myths used for privatizing land around the world while providing facts on how customary tenure systems are critical to protecting livelihoods and ensuring sustainable development for the people and the planet.
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Uganda government ignores its directive on COVID evictions;evicts thousands of smallholder farmers;artisanal miners

September, 2021
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
Land & Gender
women
land
land rights
Describes how community-level dialogues uprooted harmful gender norms that hinder women’s rights to land. Showed that shifting harmful gender norms at the community level is crucial in supporting women to access land rights. Customary leaders like indunas and village headpersons are a key entry point for that shift. Change can be slow. But spaces for dialogue;critical reflection and support for action-planning enabled the indunas to not only change their own beliefs;but also begin to see their role and their communities in a different light.
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Women;Land;Plantations and Oppression in Sierra Leone

September, 2021
Sierra Leone
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Urban Tenure
environment
government
land reform
scale
land
Despite a recent transparency law and participation in transparency initiatives;Cameroon’s investment environment remains plagued by poor transparency.
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Zambia’s chiefs champion gender equality in land and natural resource governance

September, 2021
Zambia
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
families
land
government
eviction
government
With the pandemic striking higher in Uganda;poor families continue to be forced off their land by their government and investors despite several directives halting evictions during the COVID period. Cites a number of examples. In the latest looming evictions;the Uganda government is evicting more than 35,000 artisanal miners in the Kisita mines in Kassanda district.