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Four women farmers bend over to work their land
Climate justice and the IPCC special report on land
Insight, 13 August 2019
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Between Promising Advances and Deepening Concerns: A Bottom-Up Review of Trends in Land Governance 2015–2018
… An evolving land governance context compounds the case for practitioners to closely … remain about approaches for collective bottom-up analysis led by land governance practitioners themselves. This study presents findings … land governance processes; while diverse approaches to securing land rights, whether individual or collective, possibly underpinned by new …
Publication, 01 July 2019
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Securing land rights in Mali: practical local solutions to thorny national problems
… In rural Mali, competition over access to land is driving conflicts between farmers, herders and fisher folk. Land users and the authorities have to contend with ineffective land legislation and administrative practices, and customary rights that have not adapted to a changing situation. A sense of secure …
Publication, 01 June 2014
Large-scale international investments in Cameroon have highlighted the importance of protecting the land rights of rural people (Photo: World Agroforestry Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Legal activism key to securing land rights in new investment phase
… construction works for a major oil pipeline cut through village land. Now a company proposing an agribusiness plantation wanted a significant amount of land. Some people saw this as an opportunity. Others were worried about … still pending, submitted by people determined to protect their land rights as the pressures intensified – even if that means ceding part of …
Insight, 28 March 2018
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Supporting an enabling legal environment for women’s empowerment in food and agriculture
… Land acquisitions and rights …
Publication, 29 September 2021
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Developing tools to secure land rights in West Africa: a ‘bottom up’ approach
… In West Africa, rural people’s access to land is being profoundly transformed by ecological, demographic, … commercial agriculture is increasing pressure on higher-value land, and land disputes are on the rise. Both customary and statutory … People are developing solutions locally and programmes to secure land rights in rural areas need to build on and support these efforts. This …
Publication, 01 April 2014
Rainforest logged to make way for palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Deforestation for agribusiness is destroying habitats and the ecosystems upon which local communities depend (Photo: David Gilbert/RAN, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Law and political economy of the global resource squeeze: can action rise to the challenge?
Article, 04 March 2019
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(Re)claiming power in value chains: A guide for small-scale farmers and their advocates
… influence local, national and global value chains; know their legal rights; organise to increase their power; and act together to achieve … Land acquisitions and rights …
Publication, 01 September 2022
A woman farming in Tanzania. Efforts are being made to ensure women are less negatively affected by decisions on large-scale agricultural investments than men (Photo: Dirk Musschoot/vredeseilanden, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Enhancing women's role in land management decisions
… How can women's rights be strengthened when decisions are being made about large-scale … how women's involvement in decision-making processes relating to land can be enhanced at the local level, focusing on commercial … and village bylaws in Tanzania.   The recent wave of large-scale land acquisitions in commercial agriculture has increased pressures on land, …
Insight, 24 March 2016
A woman harvests palm fruit in Tanzania
Local solutions to strengthen women’s voices in land governance
… question of how to strengthen women’s voices in decisions relating to land allocation and management was central to a recent IIED webinar in … provide local benefits, they often result in communities losing their land. Vulnerable groups and women tend to be more negatively affected. … though laws and policies promoting gender equality and women’s land rights have been adopted. For this reason, a good starting point for the …
Article, 13 May 2019