Executive Summary
 

Tenure security is a critical foundation for human development, for
prosperity, and the health and sustainability of our planet. Tenure security
and good land governance protects the rights of land users and facilitates a
long-term relationship with land that enables sustainable land use and
sustained investment in land. It promotes peace, stability and inclusive
growth; it protects the poor and empowers women and marginalized groups
such as indigenous peoples and local communities; it helps protect nature