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    Awareness and adoption of land,soil and water conservation practices in the Chinyanja Triangle, Southern Africa

    Journal Articles & Books
    April, 2017
    Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, Southern Africa, Africa
    agriculture

    The promotion of land, soil and water conservation measures has been a widespread development in sub-Saharan Africa in a bid to tackle degradation and improve productivity. As a result, several governments have launched various campaigns on soil, land and water conservation measures. The aim of this study is to determine some of the factors that influence farmers’ awareness (knowledge) and adoption of land, soil and water conservation practices. Data for this study was collected from 312 households using a questionnaire survey in the Chinyanja Triangle of Southern Africa.

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    Balancing the Scales: Community Protocols and Extractive Industries

    Lessons from Argentina, India, Kenya and Zimbabwe

    Reports & Research
    February, 2017
    Kenya, Zimbabwe, Argentina, India
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    community land rights
    extractive industries
    land investments
    mining
    territory

    With the start of a commodity boom cycle in the early 2000s, many resource-rich countries reaped benefits as prices for commodities increased over the ensuing decade. Many of these countries see mining as a central element of modernising their economies, and actively promote investment in the mining and extractives sector. Indeed,between 2000 and 2012, investment spending by global oil, gas, and mining companies increased five-fold, especially in Latin American and sub-Saharan Africa.

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    Boosting governance in Mozambique’s forests

    Reports & Research
    September, 2017
    Mozambique
    Forest Tenure
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    advocacy
    forest conservation
    natural resources management
    sustainable land management

    Mozambique is Africa’s largest exporter of timber to China. Yet multiple published concerns over the sustainability and legality of that timber trade assert the rapid commercial depletion of future timber stocks, the marginalisation of local forest communities, and the loss of revenue to government estimated at US$146 million between 2007 and 2013 alone.

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    Bottom-up accountability initiatives and large scale land acquisition in sub-saharan Africa : final technical report

    Reports & Research
    November, 2017
    Mali, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    fisheries
    land governance
    land grabbing
    land tenure

    Understanding and interpretation of the CFS/FAO Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (Tenure Guidelines or TGs) is a key factor in communities’ capabilities for collective action, especially through the organization of land pressure groups. TGs help people to engage critically with existing legal frameworks. In this study, community knowledge was enhanced regarding customary as well as statutory laws which protect rights, while enabling people to identify shortcomings/gaps/bias in the existing laws working against them.

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    Bottom-up accountability initiatives and large scale land acquisition in sub-saharan Africa : project synthesis report

    Reports & Research
    November, 2017
    Mali, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    land governance
    land grabbing
    land rights
    land tenure

    Undemocratic politics, policy making and law making interpretation and implementation, prove to be drivers of land grabbing in the four country studies presented here. Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (CFS/FAO) Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (Tenure Guidelines or TGs), albeit “soft” law, are being used by local communities for bottom-up accountability against land grabbing. Land deals are marked by highly contested political processes – usually between the central state, local communities and the corporate sector.

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    Bottom-up accountability initiatives to claim tenure rights in sub-saharan Africa : country report on South Africa

    Reports & Research
    September, 2017
    South Africa, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    land governance
    land tenure

    The research project uses the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of land, fisheries and forests (VGGT or Tenure Guidelines) as a tool to assess the impact of various governance frameworks on small scale fishing communities. It uses the Tenure Guidelines to empower communities to protect their rights in the context of promoting food sovereignty.

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