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Women farmers bending over planting crops in a paddy field
Curbing the impacts of COVID-19 on Nepal’s small-scale farmers and seizing opportunities for food system reform
… to market will need further government support. 3. Ease pressures on land There is no doubt that COVID-19 will result in mass unemployment in … turning to agriculture. This influx of labourers will put available land under pressure. As demand for land increases, landowners may seek to take back their land, displacing …
Insight, 11 May 2020
The people of southern Bangladesh are resilient and good at adapting to change: the most common vehicle in the city of Mongla is an electric rickshaw powered by a 12volt battery (Photo: Andrew Norton/IIED)
Snapshots of a changing world – climate change impacts in Bangladesh
… what possessions we could. The people here gave us a lot of help." Land erosion, salination of cropland and such dramatic weather events as … that a 65cm sea level rise will have caused 40 per cent of productive land to be lost in southern Bangladesh . Already about 20 million people … will have to move over the coming years. Not all of the effects of displacement have been negative. The women I spoke to in Khulna were …
Insight, 01 February 2018
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Shelter for all: towards more inclusive housing in Mogadishu
… Access to land and shelter in Mogadishu is governed by a complex system of formal …
Publication, 01 October 2019
Settlement in Solomon Islands.
How climate change losses could open the Solomon Islands’ old wounds
… with sea cucumber as their main export commodity.   The threat of displacement Internal climate-induced displacement (ICID) is another … per year, the encroaching waves erode our shoreline and inundate our land. Meanwhile, the salt in these rising tides contaminates our freshwater supplies. Faced with depleting land and water, we are witnessing communities beginning to relocate or …
Insight, 25 November 2020
Water with open sewage is stagnant in a built up area
Planning for reality in one of Nairobi’s largest ‘slums’
… settlement; over time, residents have built housing on this reclaimed land, causing huge drainage problems. Luckily for us, it hadn’t rained … to Mukuru. This meant calculating the minimum legal requirement of land needed to provide schools, hospitals, roads and other social … while promoting access for pedestrians. It limits the amount of land covered by roads (proposing new, narrower roads and introducing …
Insight, 04 December 2019
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Élaboration d'un bail emphytéotique et d'un cahier des charges pour la juste compensation dans le cadre du barrage Kandadji au Niger
… law, is committed to compensating people for the traditionally-owned land that they will lose. It is in this context that the HCAVN, in … Land acquisitions and rights …
Publication, 01 September 2013
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 2 Participatory basic needs assessment with the internally displaced using well being ranking
… Clare Hamilton, Alice Kaudia and David Gibbon Introduction from their land for prolonged periods or, in some cases, permanently. This paper … back home by those early 1990s in Trans-Nzoia, Western Kenya. A whose land had not been taken over. Initially total of 2,944 households …
Publication, 01 January 1998
Group photo Guinea
Global Water Initiative: Guinea
… to see how benefit-sharing mechanisms and improved security of land tenure can be incorporated into the planning of Fomi. Fomi dam The … who will need to accommodate the displaced communities. People's land rights and livelihoods will be affected and will need to be … and the affected populations on how to proceed with the process of displacement and compensation, as provided for in the Annexe n°1 of the …
Project, 16 February 2018
Sign on community property near Kampala, Uganda (Photo: Rachael Knight/Namati)
Using the law for resource justice
… Rising global demand for natural resources has made community land protection an urgent priority, particularly in countries with little or no legal protection for community land rights. In the Koh Kong province of Cambodia, for example, several … discovery of potential oil reserves has left local residents fearing displacement from their lands and the destructive impacts of oil …
Insight, 28 April 2015
Two men on the side of a mountain; one bends over to pick up two sacks, the other carries them on his shoulders
Promoting better policy and citizen agency in the mining sector
Project, 22 December 2021