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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)


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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 decla
ration

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)


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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


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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


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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)


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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


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Photos

Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST)
MST Photos

Sarayacu (Ecuador)
Our struggle against the petrol companies


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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


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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


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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)


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Training

Sustainable Land Use Forum
Training programme

Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (SIDA)
Urban land administration


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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


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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


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Blogs