An Ayoreo group in the Chaco whose ancestral land was sold to international ranchers in 2012 is battling for its return – and to hang on to their way of life
By Toby Stirling Hill
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Communications and Resource Mobilization Specialist
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Contributions
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Open Source Geospatial Foundation
OSGeo
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open philosophy and participatory community driven development.
LandLibrary Resource
The Economic Costs and Benefits of Securing Community Forest Tenure: Evidence From Brazil and Guatemala
Reports & Research
Octobre, 2015
Guatemala
Brazil
Evidence is growing that tenure-secure community forests are associated with avoided deforestation and other ecosystem-service benefits. There are also economic and social benefits connected to communal management. But securing community forest tenure also involves costs, including costs to establish supportive legislation, to demarcate and register the lands, to monitor and protect the lands as well as opportunity costs.
Event
Supporting Communities to Document and Protect their Land Rights: A New Step-by-Step Guide for Facilitators
25 Février 2016
Online
United States
Namati is launching an unprecedented new resource, unlike anything published in the field of land tenure security to date: a hands-on, step-by-step, practical “how to” guide for practitioners supporting communities to document and protect their land rights.
Event
LANDac Annual International Conference 2016
30 Juin 2016 - 01 Juillet 2016
Muntgebouw
Utrecht
Netherlands
Large-scale land acquisition in the context of urban sprawl and climate change: Linking the Rural and the Urban
News
Tenure Analyst, Strategic Analysis and Global Engagement
The Tenure Analyst is responsible for conducting and managing original, high-quality research on forest and land tenure, women’s land rights, climate, and conservation in the world’s developing and forested countries, maintaining and advancing RRI’s global tenure methodologies and databases, coordinating collaborative work on RRI priority themes, and contributing to other aspects of the Strategic Analysis and Global Engagement Program (SAGE) and the RRI Coalition.
Blog post
An examination of China’s New Urbanization Strategy
Jun Yang
Tsinghua University, China
In the last three decades, urbanization in China moved ahead at an unprecedented speed. Between 1978 and 2014, the urbanization rate increased from 17.9% to 53.7% (Chinese Government Network, 2015 [In Chinese]). During that time, more than five hundred million people moved from rural areas into cities. Rapid urbanization, along with industrialization, has propelled social and economic development not only in China, but globally as well.
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Women for Women International
Our Mission
In countries affected by conflict and war, Women for Women International supports the most marginalized women to earn and save money, improve health and well-being, influence decisions in their home and community, and connect to networks for support. By utilizing skills, knowledge, and resources, she is able to create sustainable change for herself, her family, and community.
News
Organization
Eastern Africa Land Administration Network
EALAN
Our Vision
To become a platform for academic professionals to share ideas, country experiences, plans and ways to improve land administration training/education in Eastern Africa, among other land related issues of regional concern.
Our Strategy
Promoting and improving Land Administration Education/Training and Research in the Eastern Africa region through collaboration with academic partners
Organization
Centre for Land Tenure Studies
CLTS
The Centre for Land Tenure Studies was opened at the Nowegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) on the 27th of June 2011 resulting from a joint initiative by researchers at the Department of International Environment and Development (Noragric), the School of Economics and Business, and the Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning. In 2012 was joined by the Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management.