Increasing understanding of the role that secure water resources tenure plays in ensuring sustainable livelihoods, just resource governance, environmental protection, and sustainable economic development has led FAO to re-kindle the debate that had begun in 2012, when the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT) were adopted by FAO, and that had culminated in 2016 with the publication of the FAO seminal study "Exploring the concept of water tenure".

Most literature on land tenure in sub-Saharan Africa has presented women as a homogenous group. This study uses evidence from Ghana, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe to show that women have differentiated problems, needs, and statuses in their quest for land access and tenure security. It illustrates how women-to-women differences influence women’s access to land. By investigating differentiations in women’s land tenure in the three countries, the study identifies multiple and somewhat interlinked ways in which differentiations exist in women’s land tenure. It achieved some key outcomes.

ABSTRACTED FROM INTRODUCTION: This brief has been developed by incorporating farmers’ perspective in relation to the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance Tenure (VGGT) of Land, Fisheries and Forest Tenure in the National Food Security Context of Bangladesh. The brief also recommends some immediate action points from farmers' perspectives, relies deeply on policy documents and exemplify some activities in relation to the national policies and strategic documents.

Land restitution carries implicit recognition of some previous claim to ownership, but when are first claims recognized? The concepts of first possession and original acquisition have long been used as entry points to Western concepts of property. For Austronesia, the concept of precedence is used in customary systems to justify and describe land claims and Indigenous authority. Conflict and political change in Timor-Leste have highlighted the co-existence of multiple understandings of land claims and their legitimacy.

A nation formed just 10 years ago, Timor-Leste struggles to overcome complex challenges of land ownership and use rights that were created under Portuguese and Indonesian rule. Competing land claims between individuals, and between individuals and the state, are quite common and occasionally result in armed conflict and deaths. Complicating the problem is the absence of a property rights legal framework in which to address land matters.

The SPR 2015 provides a management record of sector progress over the financial years 2006/07-2014/15, identifying issues arising, as background for an analysis of main challenges for the sector. The LHUD sector challenges suggest that there is need to focus on adjustment of policy and strategic orientation, institution reforms, planning and implementation, and financial performance.

Water- and land-related resource conflicts are the starting point of the Zambian nexus study. Zambia is endowed with abundant land and water resources, the utilisation of which offers huge potential for the country’s economic development. For this reason, the Zambian Government has planned the gradual expansion of irrigated areas throughout the country to boost agricultural production and productivity to meet domestic food demands, to supply regional and international markets, and to create income and employment for smallholders and the rural population.

Irrigation can help to improve and stabilise agricultural productivity, thereby contributing to food security and to resilience against climate change. Irrigation – either full or supplementary – reduces reliance on erratic rainfall/droughts and increases yields; it extends cropping periods and cycles, allows the cultivation of a broader spectrum of crops, and provides stable conditions for applying further yield-increasing means (fertilizers). Irrigation also encourages farmers to invest, on the one hand, and financial institutions to provide credits, on the other.

THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA THE LAND ACT, CAP 227 THE LAND REGULATIONS, 2004 Form 2 APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY/GRANT OF CONSENT

THE LAND ACT, CAP 227 THE LAND REGULATIONS, 2004 Form 3 NOTICE TO SHOW CAUSE WHY TENANCY SHOULD NOT BE TERMINATED FOR NON-PAYMENT OF RENT

THE LAND ACT, CAP 227 THE LAND REGULATIONS, 2004. Form 4 APPLICATION FOR CONVERSION FROM CUSTOMARY TENURE TO FREEHOLD TENURE/GRANT OF FREEHOLD*

THE LAND ACT, CAP 227 THE LAND REGULATIONS, 2004 Form 5 APPLICATION FOR CONVERSION OF LEASEHOLD OUT OF FORMER PUBLIC LAND TO FREEHOLD