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[30/01/2013] International advocacy in favor of land rights for small farmers
“One report launched at Davos, signals a change in thinking which could have implications for landowners. The World Economic Forum’s study ‘A New Vision for Agriculture...
News
[14/08/2012] Illegally grabbed land given back to landless people in Kerala / India?
Another article explaining that the government is beginning to consider the issue of landlessness and land grabbing for industrial purposes seriously… Is it just communications or are things...
Events
[09/08/2012] On August 9th, join the movement to Jan Satyagraha 2012! Le 9 août, rejoignez le mouvement vers Jan Satyagraha 2012!
Dear friend, August 9th, international day of indigenous populations, is an excellent opportunity to inform you about the approaching March for Justice 2012 in India, Jan Satyagraha. On...
Documents
[27/02/2012] Forest Management and Use in the Kyrgyz Republic: Development Potential
The overarching goal of this study was to understand the bottlenecks and the incentives present in forest management in the Kyrgyz Republic. The study focused on the legal, policy, social,...
Documents
[27/02/2012] Kyrgyz Livestock Study. Pasture Management and Land Use.
The document provides a comprehensive study on past and current land management, including an overview of legislation on pasture access and management, and pratical examples of pasture management in...
News
[20/02/2012] Announcing the Observatory on Land Acquistions project
The Observatory on Land Acquisitions Project is an innovative project that aims to improve the quality and inclusiveness of policy dialogue and decision-making on land, both globally and in countries...
Documents
[30/01/2012] Making Rangelands Secure: Past Experience and Future Options
Significant progress has been made over the past decade or so in the development of policy and legislation that support the recognition of customary rights to land, with important legal rulings in...
Documents
[29/01/2012] Traditional institutions, multiple stakeholders and modern perspectives in common property.
Forests and pastoralism are in a state of crisis in the Borana lowlands in southern Ethiopia. State management has failed to control forest exploitation and past and present development interventions...
Documents
[26/01/2012] Land Deals in Kenya: The Genesis of Land Deals in Kenya and its Implication on Pastoral Livelihoods
In Laikipia the key dynamics centre on absentee land, much of this being land that was divvied out to Kikuyu by Kenyatta after independence. Much of this land (particularly north of the 600mm...
Documents
[25/01/2012] "Since we have this land together"; A pastoral community in institutional management of communal resources.
 In Kenya, the pastoral Maasai’s districts have been the vanguard in rangeland tenure transitions and experimentation as pastoralists’ territory gave way to communal group ranches and to...
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