Topics and Regions
Details
Location
Uttaran Land Governance Booklet: Training Modules
Uttaran realises the importance of sharing knowledge and best practices. That is why it has become a leading provider of training on issues related to land and waterbody governance in Bangladesh. In the tenth and last of the Land Governance Booklet series, the NGO's work around training is described.
The content of the booklet is as follows:
Uttaran Land Governance Booklet: Landless Identification
In the third of the Land Governance Booklet Series created by the NGO Uttaran, the work to identify and reduce the amount of landless people in Bangladesh is decribed.
The content of the booklet is as follows:
SUGAR RUSH: Land rights and the supply chains of the biggest food and beverage companies
This paper sets out how one crop – sugar – has been driving large- scale land acquisitions and land conflicts at the expense of small-scale food producers and their families. At least 4m hectares of land have been acquired for sugar production in 100 large-scale land deals since 2000, although given the lack of transparency around such deals, the area is likely to be much greater. In some cases, these acquisitions have been linked to human rights violations, loss of livelihoods, and hunger for small-scale food producers and their families.
Reframing Investments in Land Information Systems for Land Administration
How much should investments in new land administration systems cost? How can we disentangle and compare costs of land administration investments across countries? How can policy-makers know if they are getting value for money and achieving long-term sustainability from investments in land administration systems?
Training Manual for Strengthening Co‐Operatives in Cambodia
Training Manual for Strengthening Co‐Operatives in Cambodia
Pamilyang magsasaka with english subtitles
Pamilyang magsasaka with english subtitles
Farmers' Innovations from Nepal
Though NLRF's members are focused on land rights issues, many of its members are innovating products like beans and seeds. Organic beans are used as vegetables and lentils. When dried and added some sugar, they become favorite snacks for people travelling in buses. There is also pink organic lentils grown in the field as rotating crop with rice. It is a remedy for some ailments. There is also hot plant, which gives something like electric current when you touch them. Poor people collect it from the forest and make soup out of it. It is known for its nutritional and medicinal value.
MTCP2: Views from farmer organizations in Southeast Asia
Sophal Uon, Chairperson of AFA, talks about what the MTCP2 means for farmers and farmer organizations in Southeast Asia (22 November 2013, Bangkok, Thailand)
Forests and Farms: Thone Se Village (Myanmar)
Interview with Ma Khin Win, Chairperson of Thone Se Basic Trade Union (a member of AFFM). With English subtitles.
MTCP2 Official Launch Video
Video teaser shown during the official launch of MTCP2 on November 23, 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand