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Misereor

Website: 
https://www.misereor.org/
Email: 
postmaster@misereor.de

Location

Aachen
Germany
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Global
poverty
sustainable development

MISEREOR is the German Catholic Bishops’ Organisation for Development Cooperation. For over 50 years MISEREOR has been committed to fighting poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America. MISEREOR’s support is available to any human being in need – regardless of their religion, ethnicity or gender.


Changes cannot be prescribed from outside. MISEREOR therefore believes in supporting initiatives driven and owned by the poor and the disadvantaged. This is because in MISEREOR’s experience it is they themselves who possess the strength to improve their lives sustainably. We support them in their efforts in accordance with the principle of help toward self-help. On the ground, projects are run by local organisations. This ensures that the project work is geared to the needs and way of life of the people involved.

Misereor Resources

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Library Resource

A Resource Book on Participatory Geographic Information System (PGIS) for Land Rights Advocates (Volume 1)

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Asia, South-Eastern Asia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
geographical information systems
indigenous peoples' lands
land rights

This guide (volume 1) aims to equip land rights advocates, development practitioners and stallholder farmers and indigenous people’s communities with the necessary knowledge, attitude, and skills on Community Mapping and Participatory Geographic Information System (PGIS). It focuses on data collection, database management, data processing, and analysis for the production of digital maps useful in advancing the land rights agenda of rural communities, particularly indigenous communities and smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia.

Library Resource

Striking a balance: Agricultural interests vis-à-vis housing concerns in the National Land Use Act

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
Philippines
land law
land policies
land use
sustainable land use

This publication is a lobby material to advocate the passage of the National Land Use Act. It examines the seemingly conflicted need for food and housing in the country. The writer – Carmina Flores-Obanil – describes that from 1982 to 1997 massive land conversions in the urban fringes of Bulacan and Cavite attribute to policies encouraging the expansion of industries in rural areas.

Library Resource

Land, property and tenurial rights in a changing coastal environment

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
Philippines
environment
formal tenure
land law
land policies
land tenure systems
land use
property
sustainable land use

This publication is a lobby material to advocate the passage of the National Land Use Act. It shows the adverse effects of the lack of land use planning in coastal communities especially in the advent of  a natural disaster. This publication features the Typhoon Haiyan-affected coastal communities in the Visayas Region of the Philippines as examples. It also recommends how this dismal situation could be lessened in the future.

Library Resource

Land use and development in Northern Mindanao

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
Philippines
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land degradation
land use
land-use planning
sustainable development
sustainable land use

This publication is a lobby material to advocate the passage of the National Land Use Act (NLUA). It highlights the ambiguous land policies and processes as factors to the degradation of watershed and protected areas in Cagayan de Oro and Northern Mindanao Region of the Philippines, resulting to extreme typhoon disasters. Thus, this paper explains how the NLUA will address such policy issues from the local development perspective of Northern Mindanao.

Library Resource

Land grab issue brief: Upholding Farmers’ Land Rights against Land Grabs

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2015
Asia
Land & Investments
extractive industries
food security
land grabbing
tenure security

This issue brief highlights the roots of land grabbing experienced in the aggrieved communities in seven countries. It also features the importance of advanced smallholder agriculture and local food industry, broadened land rights movement, and strengthened land governance in promoting the rights of the farmers.

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