Land tenure resources
Case studies
Action Aid International (AAI)
Cultivating women’s rights for access to land (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda and Viet Nam)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRI)
Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
El acceso de los indígenas a la tierra en los ordenamientos jurídicos de América Latina: un estudio de casos. Volumen I y Volumen II
European Union (EU)
Seeking alternative livelihoods: improving farmers' water and land use in Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan)
Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
German Development Cooperation (GTZ)
Habitat International Coalition (HIC)
Housing and land rights : learning from the field
Inter-American Development Bank (IaDB)
Secure tenure in Latin-America and the Caribbean (Latin America and Caribbean)
International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD)
Case studies
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
International Land Coalition (ILC)
United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID)
United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Land administration reviews (Lithuania, Russia, Georgia, Russia and Armenia)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Coastal Land Tenure: A Small-Islands' Perspective
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Land conflicts and their impact on refugee women’s livelihoods in south western Uganda (Uganda)
World Bank (WB)
World Conservation Union
Linking poverty reduction with forest conservation (Lao PDR)
Declarations
Agenda 21, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992)
Integrated approach to the planning and management of land resources
Conferencia internacional sobre la reforma agrarian integral. Guatemala, 10 y 11 octubre de 2006
Declaración final
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (1979)
Foro Mundial sobre la Reforma Agraria 2004
La Reforma Agraria y los Recursos Naturales - Una Exigencia de los Pueblos
ILO Convention (No. 169) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples
in Independent Countries
Articles 13–19 on rights to land
International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD) (2006)
Final declaration
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
1995 Conference on Hunger and Poverty
International Land Coalition (ILC)
Final declaration of the Assembly of Members 2005 (Bolivia)
International NGO/CSO Planning Committee – IPC Declaration of the "Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum, Porto Alegre, March 6-9, 2006
For a New Agrarian Reform based on Food Sovereignty!
Mobile Peoples and Conservation: Crossing the disciplinary divide Wadi Dana, Jordan 3rd - 7th April 2002
Dana Declaration on Mobile Peoples and Conservation
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (draft)
Articles 24-27 on land issues
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN – HABITAT)
Workshop on Land Tenure and Cadastral Infrastructures for Sustainable Development (1999) – UN & FIG
Barthurst declaration
World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development 2006
The Declaration of Principles and Programme of Action
World Food Summit 1996
Rome declaration on World Food Security and World Food Summit Plan of Action (References to land)
World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) 2002
Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development (References to land)
Evaluations
Australian Agency for International Development (AusAid)
Improving access to land and enhancing the security of land rights
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (SIDA)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
The problem of access to land and ownership in repatriation operations
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Land related documents
Glossary
Association pour la Promotion des Recherches et Etudes Foncières en
Afrique (APREFA)
Le lexique du foncier en Afrique Noire
Australian Agency for International Development (AusAid)
Undertaking Land Administration Projects: Sustainability, Affordability, Operational Efficiency and Good Practice Guidelines (see p v Glossary)
Foncier & Développement
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development (IAPAD)
PGIS Glossary
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Definitions
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Land tenure lexicon
Land Tenure Center (LTC)
Review of tenure terminology
Projet INTERREG SFAT
Lexique foncier franco-malgache
Lessons learned
Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)
Lessons learned on grassroots participation
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Land tenure and rural development
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Lessons and recommendations: cultivating peace – conflicts over natural resources
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
International Land Coalition (ILC)
Community Empowerment Facility Outcomes and Lessons Learned
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Newsletters
Cities Alliance
e-Newsletter
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Land Reform Bulletin
Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association
Newsletter
International Land Coalition (ILC)
Advancing together
Land Tenure Center (LTC)
Land Tenure Center Newsletter
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST)
Sem terra
Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)
Sustainable Land Use Forum (SLUF)
SLUF Newsletter
Photos
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST)
MST Photos
Sarayacu (Ecuador)
Our struggle against the petrol companies
Publications
BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program
Blackwell Synergy
Journal of Agrarian Change
Centro de Estudios Rurales y de Agricultura Internacional (CERAI)
Tierra
Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRI)
Collective action and property rights for sustainable development
Food First Information and Action Network (FIAN international)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
German Development Cooperation (GTZ)
Gender Responsive Land Tenure Development
Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)
GLTN e-Library
Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association
Publications
Habitat International Coalition (HIC)
Housing and land rights network: Publications
Institute for Development Studies (IDS)
Eldis – Land tenure
Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
ISS UNDP Policy papers on land
Inter-American Development Bank (IaDB)
Publications
International Federation of Surveyors
Publications
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Reforming land rights in Africa
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
International Land Coalition (ILC)
Documents and publications
Land Research Action Network (LRAN)
North South Institute
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
OXFAM
Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies
Rights and Resources Initiative
Where in the world is there pro-poor forest policy and tenure reform
Rural Development Institute
Publications
Southern African Regional Poverty Network
Publications on land
United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID)
Better livelihoods for poor people: The role of Land Policy
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
UNESCO's past activities in Land Resources: Technical Guides and Other Publications
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN – HABITAT)
Land, tenure and property administration: Publications
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Gender and property rights in post-conflict situations
University of New Brunswick (UNB)
Land and coastal studies: publications
Via Campesina
Commentary on land and rural development policies of the World Bank
World Bank (WB)
Land Policy and Administration Publications
Reports and working papers
ActionAid International (AAI)
Women’s land rights
Australian Agency for International Development (AusAid)
Viet Nam: Land administration
Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRI)
Comité Permanent Inter-États de Lutte contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS)
Rural land tenure and sustainable development in the Sahel and in West Africa PRAIA+9
Food First Information and Action Network (FIAN international)
German Development Cooperation (GTZ)
Symposium on Land Tenure and Land Policy: New Perspectives on Co-operation
Institute for Development Studies (IDS)
International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Land tenure Center (LTC)
North South Institute (NSI)
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)
Research reports
United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
Attacking poverty while improving the environment (See p20 Land reform)
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
Management of land-based resources for sustainable development: policy recommendations
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN – HABITAT)
Land tenure and property administration
Toolkits, guidelines and manuals
Australian Agency for International Development (AusAid)
Undertaking Land Administration Projects: Sustainability, Affordability, Operational Efficiency and Good Practice Guidelines
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
German Development Cooperation (GTZ)
Sustainable land management: guidelines for impact monitoring
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Guidelines for the incorporation of land tenure issues into IFAD-supported operations
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Power tools: for policy influence in natural resource management
Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)
Sector guidelines for countries proposing property rights and land policy
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Land administration guidelines
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
UNHCR environmental guidelines
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN – HABITAT)
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Training
Sustainable Land Use Forum
Training programme
Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (SIDA)
Urban land administration
Good practices
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
United Nations Development fund for Women (UNIFEM)
Women’s Land and Property Rights in Situations of Conflict and Reconstruction
United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
Promotion of sustainable livelihoods in drylands: best practice policy notes
Web resources
Africa Files
An index of land issues by country
Caledonia Centre for Social Development
Information from Scottish and International Perspectives on Land Tenure, Land Reform, Land Use and Social Land Ownership
Central European Land Knowledge Centre
Land issues
Common Property Resource Institutions
Database & Online Information & Interaction System
Community-Based Natural Resource Management - Asia
Virtual Resource Centre
Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network
Global portal website
Cyber Tracker
Free software
Department of Geomatics
Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration
Digital Library of the Commons (DLC)
International literature on the commons
Drylandscope
Sustainable drylands management reference and networking website
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
FAOLEX - electronic collection of national laws and regulations
Foncier & développement
Portal on land tenure issues in developing countries
FRAMEweb
Knowledge Sharing for the Natural Resource Community
GIS Development
The geospatial resource portal
GRET – Association de solidarité et de coopération internationale
Groupe de travail «Foncier et développement»
Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development(IAPAD)
Participatory avenues, the gateway to community mapping P3DM and PPGIS
International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)
Digital Library of the Commons
International Land Systems, Inc. (ILS)
Downloads
International Office of Cadastre and Land Records
Study and documentation centre for cadastre, land administration and affiliated fields of interest
Inter-réseaux
Développement rural
Kartoo
Metasearch engine with visual display interfaces
Land Administration in the Developing World
A source of information for practitioners and students of land administration in the developing world
Land Tenure Center (LTC)
Global resource institution on issues relating to land ownership, land rights, land access, and land use
Landtenure.info (Basic Elements of Land Tenure Systems)
Knowledge-archive
LandNetAmericas
Property registration links
Le Hub Rural and LandNet West Africa
La Plateforme
MekongInfo
Interactive system for sharing information and knowledge about participatory natural resource management (NRM) in the Lower Mekong Basin
My land
Information report for Land Reform in Ukraine
PPGIS.net
Prolinnova
Global learning network to promote local innovation in ecologically-oriented agriculture and NRM
Science and Development Network
Open access archiving
Thailand Energy and Environment Network
Databases on land and agriculture
Blogs
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