Eight facts about community land and biodiversity conservation. This short report synthesizes the scientific evidence affirming the importance of Indigenous Peoples and local communities - and the security of their rights and tenure - in protecting ecosystems and biodiversity.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresavril, 2023Global
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresoctobre, 2021Global
Indigenous peoples and other local communities (IPLCs) are essential for forests, climate, biodiversity, public health and a host of other local and global ecosystem services. Securing IPLC land rights, helping protect their lands from external threats and supporting their forest management efforts would allow IPLCs to contribute even more to these public goods. Evidence on IPLC forest management has been accumulating steadily over the last decade since this matter gained attention in the climate change policy circles.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresmars, 2014Afrique
March 2014 – In most of Africa, land is at the heart of economic, social and political life. Therefore, land and natural resource rights and governance issues profoundly affect and are affected by development initiatives across the continent. To fully succeed and contribute to ending extreme poverty in the post-2015 world, development initiatives must recognize and strengthen the land and natural resource rights of local people, especially the rural poor and women. However, while there is growing awareness of these issues, they are often overlooked.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresmars, 2018Mozambique, République-Unie de Tanzanie
Tanzania and Mozambique — countries of vast mountain ranges and open stretches of plateaus — now face a growing land problem. As soil degradation, climate change and population growth place enormous strains on the natural resources that sustain millions of people, multinational companies are also gunning for large swaths of land across both countries. Caught between these pressures, many poor, rural communities get displaced or decide to sell their collectively held land.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjuillet, 2017Global
- There is an accute lack of well-located urban housing that is adequate, secure, and affordable. The global affordable housing gap is currently estimated at 330 million urban households and is forecast to grow by more than 30 percent to 440 million households, or 1.6. billion people, by 2025.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjuin, 2016Global
Encroaching on Land and Livelihoods examines whether national expropriation laws in 30 countries across Asia and Africa follow the international standards established in Section 16 of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGTs). Section 16 of the VGGTs establishes standards on expropriation, compensation, and resettlement to ensure tenure security and responsible land governance. The UN Committee on World Food Security officially endorsed the VGGTs in 2012.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresnovembre, 2015Amérique latine et Caraïbes, Brésil
La seguridad de la tenencia, definida como la certeza de que los derechos sobre las tierras de una comunidad serán reconocidos y protegidos si se los cuestiona, está relacionada con una gran cantidad de beneficios para las comunidades y la sociedad en general. Cada vez existe una mayor evidencia de que los bosques comunitarios con tenencia asegurada están relacionados con la deforestación evitada y otros beneficios de servicios del ecosistema. Además, existen otros beneficios económicos y sociales relacionados con la gestión comunal.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2012Nigéria
Among the main objectives of the Nigerian Land Use Decree of 1978 were:
1) reducing land conflicts among citizens; 2) unifying and simplifying land
tenure concepts and land administration procedures throughout the country;
3) achieving a more equitable distribution of and access to land rights for all
citizens regardless of wealth or position; and 4) facilitating greater government
control over land use and development. Today, almost 35 years after adoption
of the law, questions continue to be raised about whether the law has achieved -
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Focus on Land in Africa: Mozambique Lesson Brief, Mozambique's Land Law
Documents de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2011AfriqueThis lesson brief presents the laws that give people access and secure rights to land. These laws encourage investment in the land and can establish a foundation on which rural families can grow their incomes and assets.
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Focus on Land in Africa: Mali Lesson Brief, Tenure Insecurity in Urban Mali
Documents de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2011AfriqueThis lesson brief focuses on how issues of unaffordable land and land formalization processes in Mali have fueled tenure insecurity for the urban poor. It is part of the Focus on Land in Africa: Land Tenure and Property Rights online educational tool. In Mali, many of the urban poor face tenure insecurity which leaves them vulnerable to expropriation, landless
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