Pages tagged with

Land tenure

46 entries

Land rights and investments: why the IFC performance standards are not enough: A comparison with the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure

Publication, 01 October 2019

Land tool development in Ghana: building on local aspirations and innovation

Publication, 01 April 2014

Securing land rights in Cameroon: what hasn’t worked and what should be done

Publication, 01 June 2020

Securing land rights in Mali: practical local solutions to thorny national problems

Publication, 01 June 2014

Rural resource grabs or necessary inward investment? The politics of land and water in Africa

Publication, 01 March 2014

Reconsidering approaches to women’s land rights in sub-Saharan Africa

Publication, 01 September 2015

Legacy land issues: Addressing historical disputes in agribusiness investments

Publication, 01 November 2016

Understanding changing land issues for the rural poor in Mozambique

Publication, 01 May 2017

Reforming land tenure in Cameroon: avenues for action

Publication, 15 September 2020

What’s needed to halt threats to rural land rights in Cameroon

News, 09 September 2020

Investment disputes from below: whose rights matter?

Long read, 23 July 2020

Strengthening land governance, local to global

Active Project

An aerial view of the Southwest Mau Forest and neighbouring tea estates in Kenya (Photo: Patrick Sheperd/CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Development finance and land rights: how we can do better

Insight, 22 March 2019

A water connection to link the Lobé river to Kribi harbour, South Region, Cameroon

LandCam: securing land and resource rights and improving governance in Cameroon

Archived Project

David Arach presented Namati's approach to community land protection, focusing on the key stage of community by-laws drafting, in the IIED webinar (Image: David Arach)

Using community by‑laws to protect indigenous and rural land rights

Insight, 01 December 2016

Consultation of local communities affected by the Kandadji dam about long-term leases to secure land tenure (Photo: GWI West Africa)

From traditional land rights to long-term leases: fair compensation?

Insight, 02 June 2015

Smallholders threshing rice in irrigated agricultural perimeter of Sélingué dam in Mali (Photo: Moustapha Diallo/GWI West Africa)

GWI West Africa: project background

Archived Project

The implications of land-use dynamics for poor households and the environment are explored in the short film 'Karachi Rising' (Photo: IIED)

Spreading the word about Karachi's contested land

Article, 14 September 2014

Sheep wander past a former IDP camp in northern Uganda.

Uganda: Breaking the links between the land and the people

Insight, 11 March 2013

Tanzania: Moving beyond ‘land grab’ rhetoric to finding solutions

Insight, 05 April 2012

Delivering REDD+: can past lessons help in tempering optimism and making headway?

Insight, 09 May 2011

Climate adaptation: old wine in new bottles?

Insight, 29 March 2011

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