The present study aims to clarify the various issues regarding land security of poor and other marginalized groups in Malian rural areas. It looks into questions relating to how poor and vulnerable groups obtain access to land and natural resources, and what factors cause their exclusion. It analyzes existing methods for formalizing land rights and land transactions and their impacts on the poor.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsNovember, 2006Mali
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Mapping Women Land Rights in the Context of UN's SDG in India
Conference Papers & ReportsMarch, 2017IndiaProduction, availability and accessibility of reliable data and statistics are of fundamental importance in monitoring and in taking evidence-based decisions for good land governance. The demand for data as evidence is increasingly focused to monitor global and national developmental status and targets. Implementation of intentionally agreed commitments like Sustainable development Goals (SDGs) influence data production and availability, and the development of national statistical capacities (OECD, 2015)1 .
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsMarch, 2015Philippines
This paper was prepared for presentation at the “2015 World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty” in Washington DC last March 23-27, 2015 by Violeta P. Corral of the National Confederation of Small Farmers and Fishers Organizations (PAKISAMA), Philippines.
The Gender Evaluation Criteria (GEC) project was jointly implemented by PAKISAMA and Asian Farmers Association (AFA), support by the International Land Coalition (ILC).
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsMarch, 2019Mongolia
This paper shares findings from new research on gender and land in a pastoralist community in central- western Mongolia, with a complex structure of investment and operations in gold mining. The paper examines what has been learned from the research about people's coping strategies in the face of social and environmental change, specifically in the context of the development of mining since the transition from socialism and in a relatively isolated area.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsApril, 2017Uzbekistan
In 2016, Uzbekistan celebrated twenty-five years of independence. Although government prioritized investment in agriculture sector, the social policy emphasized strongly institutional and organizational changes. As a result, women are mostly excluded from reforms’ benefits. This paper provides a critical literature review that addresses how international gender measurement indicators and methodologies help in understanding women’s empowerment and opportunities in the agriculture sector of post-Soviet Uzbekistan.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 1972Western Africa, Middle Africa
IDRC personnel. Report on the status of women, youth and children in West Africa and Central Africa, and regard for their needs in development planning - discusses education of women, maternal child health, health education (particularly in nutrition practices and in ensuring safe water supply) equal opportunity, employment opportunitys, equal pay for woman workers and young workers, rights to land ownership and participation in economic development projects.
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Summary of the UK Land Policy Forum meeting held on 13 October 2016
Conference Papers & ReportsOctober, 2016GlobalThis is the summary of the UK Land Policy Forum meeting held on 13 October 2016.
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Agenda of the UK Land Policy Forum meeting held on 13 October 2016
Conference Papers & ReportsOctober, 2016GlobalThis is the agenda of the UK Land Policy Forum meeting held on 13 October 2016.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsJanuary, 2020Guatemala
In 2018, Global Witness found that Guatemala had experienced the highest increase in the number of murders of land and environmental defenders of any country in the world. Last year alone, the president of the village chapter of the Comité de Desarrollo Campesino (CODECA), a national organization of social movements led by indigenous people who work for the recognition of land rights, was murdered, as well as four of his colleagues. Many of these murders occurred in the municipality of Izabal.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsApril, 1988Africa
The scale and persistence of the food crisis in Africa during the last
20 years is of the gravest concern to African governments as well as to the international community. Food production is not able to keep pace with population growth and many countries in the continent have become increasingly dependent on imports of food stuffs originating from international aid.
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