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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information. We help developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all. Since our founding in 1945, we have focused special attention on developing rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world's poor and hungry people.
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Displaying 141 - 145 of 167Sustaining the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Lands, Fi
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The strategic objective of the project is to strengthen the capacity of rural women to understand their land rights and to self-advocate for the protection of their customary land rights and the elimination of discriminatory barriers through improved land rights administration reforms. The project will have two specific components: 1. Context analysis of the critical aspects influencing and hindering women´s land rights in three ethnically diverse customary tenure communities (Temne, Limba and Mende); 2. Training and Capacity Development - women and men as community women’s land rights leaders, advocates and trainers with the appropriate skills and technical competence to participate in land rights clarification decisions; 3. Pilot Customary land rights ascertainment, demarcation and recording pilot using SOLA Open Tenure in three ethnically different customary tenure communities.
Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development (LEGEND)
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The project supports country offices to set up and implement new land programmes by funding programme scoping and design, and providing expert 3rd party advice during implementation; supporting a range of global level activities covering improved private sector land investment, land information and knowledge and land rights protection.
Land governance and transparency of agricultural investments
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this program relies on several components: Component 1: Increase transparency and global information on land transactions (land observatory in Senegal and African land portal hosted by LPI and Land matrix) Component 2: Articulate national land policies and the application of the VGGT (Niger and Senegal)
VGGT-based forest tenure project
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A VGGT-informed forest tenure project was implemented in Uganda to pilot the process for registering community and private smallholder customary forests. The project aimed to strengthen tenure security of owners, and improve forest governance of areas that are otherwise functioning as open access and experiencing the greatest levels of deforestation in country.
VGGT based forest tenure and CBF assessments - Congo Brazzaville, Gabon, Honduras, Mongolia, Portugal, Senegal
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VGGT based forest tenure and CBF assessments conducted in each of the countries. In Gabon and Congo Brazzaville the assessments will inform Ministry of Forests on status and challenges of CBF, and recommendations for improvement. In Honduras and Senegal, the assessments will be used to inform on-going forestry programs and design of new projects. In Mongolia, the assessment will be used to promote implementation of the VGGT and inform the pasture law being drafted. In Portugal, the findings are being used to promote policy dialogue on communal forest land tenure and management. In Zambia the assessments will inform the on-going FAO Technical Cooperation Program on Sustainable Forest and Woodland Management for Food and Nutrition Security in Western Province of Zambia.