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Land Reform and Rural Territories: Experiences from Brazil and South Africa
Publication, 01 February 2008
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Community-based advocacy: lessons from a natural gas project in Mozambique
… Mozambique has become a hot spot in the global rush for land in the last decade. Growing investments in sectors such as mining, … forest plantations and industrial agriculture most often target rural land held by local communities under customary law, and conflicts … of capacity to use the law and judicial mechanisms to protect their rights, put them in a weak position, including during community …
Publication, 01 October 2015
A Subanen harvest dance during a colourful street dancing competition of Kinabayo Festival. Community action by the Subanen tribe in Midsalip prevents mining companies from encroaching their land (Photo: Mark Navales/Google Licence)
Citizen power: Sustaining paralegal programmes to put knowledge back into communities' hands
… farmland and other natural resources is increasing pressures on land for millions of rural citizens, especially in Africa, Asia and … equipped with legal knowledge and skills can challenge land acquisitions and hold on to the land they may have farmed for … time, capacity and people's own 'agency' to claim and defend their rights, especially when defending land rights.  Making land rights …
Insight, 14 October 2014
The landscape of the Santurbán páramo.
Unpacking regulatory chill: the case of mining in the Santurbán páramo in Colombia
… that allowing existing mining to continue did not guarantee the rights to a healthy environment, water and to national heritage. The … and independent, they can conduct constitutional and fundamental rights review of governmental action, especially when the government is … Land acquisitions and rights …
Insight, 21 December 2020
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Following the money: an advocate’s guide to securing accountability for agricultural investments
… organisations and individuals working to support communities whose land rights, lives and livelihoods have been negatively impacted by … the actors involved in agricultural investments accountable for human rights violations and all sorts of malpractices. It is informed by … Land acquisitions and rights …
Publication, 01 August 2015
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Strengthening women's voices in the context of agricultural investments: Lessons from Kenya
… Institute for Environment and Development’s (IIED) ‘Gender, land and accountability in the context of agricultural and other natural … livelihood opportunities by empowering them in relation to community land stewardship and increasing their ability to hold agricultural … relevant to the strengthening of women’s empowerment in community land stewardship and accountability in agricultural investments. It …
Publication, 01 July 2016
A canopy above the entrance to a mine. Written on the canopy is 'Bienvenidos a Marmato" - welcome to Marmato
Mining reforms have left Colombia’s artisanal miners behind
… miners. These regulations attempted to achieve a balance between the rights of small-scale and medium-scale mining, and extraction by both … economic development and illegitimately control their relationship to land and resources. As the government heavily subsidises international … Land acquisitions and rights …
Insight, 15 April 2020
Women using hoes in a crop field in Kilosa, Tanzania.
Une série de blogs s'interroge sur les grands principes qui contribuent à renforcer les droits fonciers des femmes
… la terre, et les initiatives telles que la campagne «  Stand for Her Land  » (« Défendre sa terre » dans la traduction française) se … Land acquisitions and rights … What works for women’s land rights? …
Insight, 15 October 2020
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Land Tenure and Administration in Africa: Lessons of Experience and Emerging Issues
… This study reviews the main features of the new wave of land policy and legislation in sub-Saharan Africa, and identifies emerging issues concerning land tenure in the continent. The study draws lessons from recent … management and administration; land conflict; protecting the land rights of vulnerable groups; land and rural-urban links; land and …
Publication, 01 February 2004
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Global and Local Land Markets
… defining the local. The implications of institutionalising customary land administration for rural people and the peasantry. … Land acquisitions and rights … Global and Local Land Markets …
Publication, 01 November 2004