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Action Aid International (AAI)

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Australian Development Agency (AUSAID)

Viet Nam: Land administration

Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRI)

Between Market Failure, Policy Failure and “Community Failure”: Property Rights, Crop-Livestock Conflicts and the Adoption of Sustainable Land Use Practices in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka
Gender Differences in Mobilization for Collective Action: Case Studies of Villages in Northern Nigeria (Nigeria)
Governing Land Reflections from IFPRI Research
Land Dispute Resolution in Mozambique: Institutions and Evidence of Agroforestry Technology Adoption
Land Tenure Systems and the Adoption of Mucuna Planted Fallow in the Derived Savannas of West Africa
Land Tenure and the Adoption of Agricultural Technology in Haiti
Land distribution and redistribution, tenure insecurity, and intensity of production: a study of farm households in Southern Ethiopia
Land inheritance and schooling in matrilineal societies: evidence from Sumatra
Property Rights, Risk and Livestock Development in Africa: Niger Case Study (Niger)
Securing the commons
Subdividing the Commons: The Politics of Property Rights Transformation in Kenya's Maasailand
Synthesis of case studies on common property

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

Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

Management of land-based resources for sustainable development: policy recommendations

European Union (EU)

Seeking alternative livelihoods: improving farmers' water and land use in Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan)

Food First Information and Action Network (FIAN International)

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

German Agency For Technical Cooperation (GTZ)

Habitat International Coalition (HIC)

Housing and land rights : learning from the field

Institute for Development Studies (IDS)

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)

International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

International Fund For Agricultural Development (IFAD)

International Land Coalition (ILC)

Land Tenure Centre (LTC)

North South Institute (NSI)

Organization For Economic Cooperation And Development (OECD)

Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)

Research reports

United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

United Nations Economic Commission For Europe

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)

United Nations Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)

Land tenure and property administration

World Bank (WB)

World Conservation Unit

Linking poverty reduction with forest conservation (Lao PDR)

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

Directories

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Agenda 21

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 Indipendent Countries

Articles 13–19 on rights to land

International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD)

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

Dana Declaration on Mobile Peoples and Conservation

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigeneous People(DRAFT)

Articles 24-27 on land issues

United Nations 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 Development Agency (AUSAID)

Improving access to land and enhancing the security of land rights

International Fund For Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Swedish International Development Cooperation 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 and FAQ

Association pour la Promotion des Recherches et Études Foncières en Afrique (APREFA)

Le lexique du foncier en Afrique Noire

Australian Development Agency (AUSAID)

Undertaking Land Administration Projects: Sustainability, Affordability, Operational Efficiency and Good Practice Guidelines (see p v Glossary)

Foncier & Développement

Lexiques

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 Centre (LTC)

Review of tenure terminology

Project Interreg Sfat (PIS)

Lexique foncier franco-malgache

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 Programme (UNDP)

Promotion of sustainable livelihoods in drylands: best practice policy notes

Good practices and lessons learned

Presentations

Lessons learned

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Land tenure and rural development

Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)

Lessons learned on grassroots participation

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)

Networks

Newsletters

Cities Alliance

e-Newsletter

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Land Reform Bulletin

Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDIA)

Newsletter

International Land Coalition (ILC)

Advancing together

Land Tenure Centre (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

Reports and publications

Publications

Basis Collaborative Research Support Program (BCRSP)

Blackwell Sinergy (BS)

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

Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

Food First Information and Action Network (FIAN International)

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

German Agency For Technical Cooperation (GTZ)

Gender Responsive Land Tenure Development

Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)

GLTN e-Library

Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDIA)

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

Internation Federation of Surveyors (IFS)

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 (NSI)

OXFAM

Organization For Economic Cooperation And Development (OECD)

Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)

Resource Development International (RDI)

Publications

Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN)

Publications on land

United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID)

Better livelihoods for poor people: The role of Land Policy

United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

UNESCO's past activities in Land Resources: Technical Guides and Other Publications

United Nations Research Unistitute for Social Development (UNRISD)

United Nations Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)

Land, tenure and property administration: Publications

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

Toolkits and manuals

Australian Development Agency (AUSAID)

Undertaking Land Administration Projects: Sustainability, Affordability, Operational Efficiency and Good Practice Guidelines

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

German Agency For Technical 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

Land administration guidelines

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

UNHCR environmental guidelines

United Nations Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Training

Sustainable Land Use Forum (SLUF)

Training programme

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)

Urban land administration

Agreements

Useful links

Virtual library

Web Resources

Africa files

An index of land issues by country

Caledonia Centre for Social Development (CCSD)

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 (CPRI)

Database and Online Information and Interaction System

Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network(CBNRMN)

Global portal website

Community-based Natural Resource Management - Asia

Virtual Resource Centre

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

FRAMEweb

Knowledge Sharing for the Natural Resource Community

Foncier & Développement

Portal on land tenure issues in developing countries

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

FAOLEX - electronic collection of national laws and regulations

GRET - Association de Solidarité et de Coopération Internationale

Groupe de travail «Foncier et développement»

Gis Development

The geospatial resource portal

Hub Rural and LandNet West Africa

La Plateforme

Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development (IAPAD)

Participatory avenues, the gateway to community mapping P3DM and PPGIS

Inter-réseaux

Développement rural

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(IOCLR)

Study and documentation centre for cadastre, land administration and affiliated fields of interest

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 Centre (LTC)

Global resource institution on issues relating to land ownership, land rights, land access, and land use

LandNetAmericas

Property registration links

Landtenure.info (Basic Elements of Land Tenure Systems)

Knowledge-archive

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(SDN)

Open access archiving

Thailand Energy and Environmetn Network

Databases on land and agriculture

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