A chapter from the Guide that explains the Valuation activity, designed to build awareness of the value of common lands and natural resources and increase community motivation to complete the community land protection process.
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The Community Land Protection Initiative provides land rights defenders with the practical skills to support communities to document and protect their indigenous and customary lands. It includes practical how-to videos, blogs and other tools that will help you design interventions to protect community land rights.
Indigenous authorities, representatives of the Council of older people and children are the main protagonists of the documentary “Indigenous territory of Lomerío: from shelter to indigenous autonomy”, that reflects the whole process of a successful and emblematic collective access to land by the Chiquitano people in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
L’investissement sur la terre dépend essentiellement de la sécurité foncière, et en l’absence d’une tenure sécurisée plusieurs investissements ne peuvent engager des investissements pour contribuer le développement économique attendu depuis si longtemps en Afrique. Les pays africains sont tellement imprégnés de ce fait qu’ils ont récemment initié deux processus majeurs qui transforment progressivement le paysage de la gouvernance foncière.
Land acquisitions, either driven by foreign investments or domestic investment needs have continued to polarize opinions. When this research was proposed, it was premised on arguments by scholars Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Helen Markelova, who had analysed agricultural land deals, and argued that there were potentially two schools of thought about foreign acquisitions over agricultural land.
Kenya is going through a period of intense transition. The country's main development policy, Vision 2030, is just entering the second Medium Term Plan of Implementation from 2013. The development priorities focus extensively on large scale investments, for industrial, irrigated agriculture, utilization of newly discovered natural resources, and infrastructure development. Land is therefore a central commodity for realization of the sought after socioeconomic transformation.
This report, a summary of the substantial challenges that continue to plague South Africa’s efforts to reform land administration system, proposes that key decision-makers and informers involved in communal land administration undergo a mindshift in thinking. This shift should be from focusing exclusively on transferring communal land to traditional leaders, Common Property Institutions and private individuals, to recognising and accommodating existing forms of social tenure.
Esta hoja informative es el resultado del proyecto "Promoviendo la prevención y gestión de conflictos en el proceso de titulación de tierras de las comunidades nativas de la Amazonía andina de San Martín - Perú", ejecutado por la ONG Paz y Esperanza (Moyobamba), con el apoyo de la cooperación alemana para el desarrollo, implementada por la Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, a través del proyecto Pro Tierras Comunales.
Los conflictos territoriales incluyen superposiciones de diferentes categorías territoriales otorgadas por el Estado en sus diferentes niveles y las tensiones entre vecinos (conflictos sociales), todos estos representan "obstáculos para la titulación" o pueden limitar la futura gestión territorial de las comunidades nativas.
El equipo de la ONG Paz y Esperanza trabajó en estrecha colaboración con CODEPISAM, sus ocho federaciones y los presidentes de los miembros de las comunidades nativas, se hicieron visitas de campo en base a ella se actualizaron los datos y mapas.
Los comuneros de Tola Chica, en Ecuador, resisten varios intentos de quitarles su tierra, pero esta lucha no impide que continúen con procesos internos de cohesión en los que la fiesta anual juega un papel importante.