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Maasai herder on the flooded Mundarara road, northern Tanzania

Putting research into action - one muddy step at a time

30 January 2020
Authors: 
Dr. Elizabeth Daley
Africa
Tanzania
Asia
Mongolia
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
capacity building
climate change
community land rights
customary land rights
gender equity in access to land
land governance
land rights
legal empowerment
mining
natural resources management
pastoral land rights
pastoralists
rangelands
research
sustainable land management
women

I write this blog as our project team embarks on a fifth year of work on women’s land tenure security (WOLTS) with pastoral communities in mining-affected areas of Mongolia and Tanzania. Just before Christmas 2019, we were in Mundarara village in northern Tanzania. Exceptionally heavy rains made getting around much more challenging than usual. Locals travelling on foot had to make wide detours to avoid getting bogged down in waterlogged grazing land, and it took everyone much longer to get to the village primary school for our long-planned training day. 

Foto de André Paxiuta/Jornal Mapa

Os novos trabalhadores rurais do Alentejo: entre a esperança e a discriminação

31 July 2019
Africa
Asia
Europe
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
agriculture
community land rights
deforestation
environment
farm tenancy
farmers
forest land
housing rights
local communities
poverty
rural areas
rural population
territory
Depois do abandono, o regresso à terra e à agricultura, arriscamo-nos a dizer, é todo ele feito, seja por quem for, desprovido dos laços com o território e, como tal, desprovido dos laços de solidariedade e da vida comunitária outrora forjada nos campos.
 
Oil Palm Plantation, Sarawak, Malaysia

Temporalities of Mobility and Land Transformation

27 July 2018
Authors: 
Tania Li
Asia
South-Eastern Asia
Indonesia
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
compulsory acquisitions
customary land rights
indigenous land rights
indigenous peoples
land acquisitions
land governance
land grabbing
land tenure
land tenure systems

Large scale land grabs are often sites of immediate and sometimes violent mobility, as people are evicted and obliged to move elsewhere. The term “grab” signals abruptness.

Five facts about the upcoming Second Regional Land Forum

21 May 2018
Asia
Land & Food Security
advocacy
agriculture
capacity building
farmers
land
land conflicts
sustainable development

Organized by the Mekong Regional Land Governance (MRLG) project and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the Second Regional Land Forum will take place in Bangkok, Thailand from the 28-30 May.

 

SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Asia
South-Eastern Asia
Land & Investments
contract farming
food security
gender equity in access to land
land
land access
land conflicts
land rights
private ownership
sustainable development
sustainable land use
women

A civil society perspective on engaging with the private sector

Towards SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Collective forest tenure reforms: Where do we go from here?

Global
Africa
Kenya
Uganda
Latin America and the Caribbean
Colombia
Peru
Asia
Indonesia
Nepal
Forest Tenure
agroforestry systems
community forestry
community land rights
forest conservation
forest land
forest law
forest management plans
land reform
land rights
land tenure
land tenure systems

The recent World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, held this past March in Washington D.C., provided a unique opportunity to reflect on collective land tenure reforms not only from a research point of view, but also from that of governments.

How Land Reform Shaped Asia’s Tiger Economies

Asia
Myanmar
Taiwan
Vietnam
Land & Food Security
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
agriculture
land investments
land reform
land rights
mining
negotiated land reform

By Roy Prosterman

Asia’s Tigers, the collection of booming economies that emerged in the East following World War II, are often hailed as economic miracles. There was, though, no “secret sauce” behind that sustained and broad-based economic growth. Rather, as Myanmar is poised to show, the key ingredient for a Tiger economy can be found right beneath our feet.

The VGGT infographic on Land Book now displays 14 legal indicators on expropriation and compensation processes in 50 countries

Global
Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean
Asia
Land & Investments
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
compensation
compulsory acquisitions
displacement
expropriation
land investments
land tenure
VGGT

Until now, a comprehensive study of national-level expropriation, compensation, and resettlement procedures in 50 countries across has not been conducted. My PhD research project, facilitated by the University of Groningen Faculty of Law, aims to bridge this gap by providing a broad comparative analysis of nation legal frameworks in 50 countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America to determine whether legal procedures in these countries adopt internationally recognized standards on expropriation, compensation, and resettlement.

Land Portal's New Qualitative Dataset and Infographic Measures Laws Against the UN VGGTs and Shows Why Communities are Vulnerable to Expropriation Without Fair Compensation

Global
Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean
Asia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
compensation
displacement
expropriation
land governance
land reform
VGGT

Today Land Portal is launching a new qualitative dataset and infographic which shows how national laws measure up against the international standards on expropriation, compensation, and resettlement as established in Section 16 of the UN Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGTs).

New threats to resource rights and food security: COVID-19 impact and response

20 May 2020
Authors: 
Dr. David Betge
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
COVID-19
land equity
equal rights
farming systems
natural resources
land grabbing

The ongoing pandemic and the formal and informal responses to its spread have very direct impacts on the food and nutrition security of people in all parts of the world. Strong concerns have been voiced that the global health crisis could turn into a global food crisis.

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