The objective of this document is to guide the corporates and investors understand how to respect peoples’ ’‘tenure rights to land, fisheries and forest”,and ensure that communities have access to remedies ‘acceptable to both parties’ when such rights are impinged or such potential is recognized.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesJanuary, 2015Global
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesJanuary, 2014Global
This guide provides tools to understand the Voluntary Guidelines on the responsible Governance of Tenure, which sometimes uses technical language that is not easy to understand for those who are not used to reading this kind of text.
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Library ResourceVideosJuly, 2014Global
Ahead of a seminar in Brussels, Andrew Hilton, an FAO expert on land tenure, underlines the need for open dialogue with the private sector when implementing the Voluntary Guidelines.
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Library ResourceVideosJune, 2014Global
The Millennium Challenge Corporation's Rick Gaynor discusses how the Voluntary Guidelines for Land Tenure help to strengthen women farmer's claims to land and improve food security around the world.
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Library ResourceVideosMarch, 2014Global
Statements on the national implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2014Global
The Legal Assessment Tool (LAT) for gender-equitable land tenure was developed by FAO’s
Gender and Land Rights Database (GLRD) for the purpose of providing prompt, targeted and
effective policy advice and capacity development to FAO’s Member countries working towards
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2014Myanmar, Global
Mexico may be hitting the perfect storm when it opens its energy resources to foreign investors...
Against the backdrop of Mexico's ever-widening gap between rich and poor, growing violence, and stalled economy, President Enrique Pena Nieto has passed a series of economic reforms.
Under these reforms, Mexico's oil, which was expropriated from foreign interests 75 years ago, is now for sale to private, international companies.
NAFTA has had a very bright side but also has had a very dark side…the dark side of globalisation has been organised crime.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2015Global
Date: 2015
Source: Foncier & Développement
Par: Cécile Travési, Maïa Ponsonnet
La question des revendications foncières autochtones représente une problématique majeure de la recherche en anthropologie. Comment les systèmes fonciers autochtones sont-ils compris, et éventuellement traduits dans les termes des états dominants ? Comment ces traductions sont-elles concrètement prises en charge – au niveau légal et symbolique ?
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationMay, 2014Global
The theme of urban regeneration has played a strategic role during the last two decades in European and national urban building policies. Current addresses, also defined in Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities in 2007, indentify the necessity to invest in requalification of degraded residential assets and not in new developments, individuating in urban regeneration the main tool for development of contemporary city. Public neighborhoods have developed, historically, a wide set of common problems.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationJune, 2014Italy, Japan, Global
Large amounts of resources and energy are consumed in the building sector. However, in response to the growing awareness of global environment problems, those in the building sector also recognized the necessity of making contributions toward the mitigation of environmental problems. The development of BREEAM was spurred by such circumstances. Its innovative scope and method attracted worldwide attention and eventually led to the global movement for developing assessment tools.
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