In the present report the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food analyses how these investments could have impacts on the right to food.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJune, 2009Global
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2009Liberia
Land rights in postwar Liberia: The volatile
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2009Liberia
Territorial Tensions: Rainforest Conservation, Postconflict Recovery, and
Land Tenure in Liberia
Leif Brottem a; Jon Unruh b
a Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison b Department of Geography, McGill
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2009
Unruh JD (2009) Humanitarian approaches to conflict and post-conflict legal pluralism in land tenure. In: Pantuliano S (ed). Uncharted territory Land, conflict and humanitarian action. Practical Action Publishers, Warwickshire, UK.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2009Ethiopia
Strengthening women's inheritance and property rights can be an effective means of decreasing poverty and increasing gender equality, and thereby accelerating progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This paper presents two case studies from Rwanda and Ethiopia to illustrate the potential impact that advocacy, legislative reform and law enforcement in this area can have on the achievement of the MDGs in developing countries.
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Journal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2010CameroonDrawing from field research in Cameroon, Ghana, Viet Nam, and the Amazon forests of Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru, this book explores the relationship between gender and land, revealing the workings of global capital and of people’s responses to it.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2009Africa, Tanzania, Gambia, Ghana
[From the editorial] This issue of Feminist Africa seeks to explore the interconnections among economic liberalisation policies, land and resource tenures, and labour relations in the structuring of gendered livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. The focus on livelihoods departs somewhat from Feminist Africa’s niche in providing cutting-edge feminist analysis of issues of sexual politics and identities, national politics and democratisation processes, higher education and feminist research methodologies.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2010Laos
Objectives of the study were to assess the evidence of climate change and the additional likely changes in the climate up to 2050. Further the recent changes in land use and their major drivers have been addessed. The outcome of the study are recommendation for adapted farming practices, taking predicted changes in climate into account.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2009Mali
This study by GTZ on behalf of BMZ about FDI in land has identified numerous problems that the Malian Government needs to tackle. Since 2007 foreign direct investments (FDI) in land have dramatically increased. Situated in West Africa, the Republic of Mali
covers an area of 1,241,238 km2. Of this in 2002, 35.2 % was designated arable land and 11.6 % was cultivated land. To date, FDI covers 130,105 ha of land. The study formulates recommendations to ensure that local communities derive the best possible benefits from FDI. -
Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2009Laos
TAKEN FROM WEBSITE INTRODUCTION: This study by GTZ on behalf of BMZ about FDI in land highlights dramatic increase in land concessions, based on data collected in two provinces for an inventory, which GTZ conducted as no official data on land concessions is available. The Lao PDR is a small land-locked country in South-East Asia with a total area of 236,800 m2 with over 80% mountainous surface. It is estimated that all together concessoins for 2-3 million hectar land were granted, representing 13% of Lao PDR's total land area.
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