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Land and rural poverty: Thematic focus

Land is a cross-cutting issue relevant to many themes, including gender, environment, pastoralists and indigenous peoples. Its relevance in various contexts needs to be properly understood and addressed in poverty-focused programmes. because land tenure status, type of access and security of rights are often critical links that determine who benefits and who loses. They are also key incentives for poor rural people to undertake long-term investments and adopt environmental protection measures, which are often key means of enhancing and securing their livelihoods and food security.

Common property

Organizations

• Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRI)
• Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network (CBNRM)
• International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)
• World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

Resources

Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC)
Enhancing Access of the Poor to Land and Common Property Resources

Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRI)

• Biting the bullet : how to secure access to drylands resources for multiple users
• Securing the commons

Forrest Trends
Strengthening forest management in Indonesia through land tenure reform

International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)
The commons digest

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Multiple functions of common property regimes

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Community-based natural resource management

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Securing the commons

Land conflicts

Organizations

• International Development Research Centre (IDRC) – Conflict over natural resources
• Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales
• Rapid Agrarian Conflict Appraisal
• Resource Conflict Institute (RECONCILE) (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania)
• University of Manchester – Territories, conflicts and development in the Andes

Resources

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

• Comunicação, diàlogo, concilação
• Land tenure alternative conflict management

Fundación Tierra
El conflicto por la tierra es el conflicto por el poder

International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

• Case studies
• Lessons and recommendations

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

• Conflict between farmers and herders in the semi-arid Sahel and East Africa: A review
• Du conflit au consensus: Les pasteurs et agro-pasteurs de Kishi Beiga (Burkina Faso) optent pour la cogestion de leurs ressources naturelles

North South Institute

• Agrarian structures, agrarian policies and violence in Central America and Southern Mexico
• Transforming land-related conflict

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Land, Violent Conflict and Development

Land rights and gender

Organizations

• African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)
• Centre for Land, Economy and Rights of Women (Clear-Women) (East and Southern Africa)
• International Land Coalition – Women’s access to land
• Women's Environment & Development Organization
• Women's Land and Water Rights in Southern Africa (WLWR)

Resources

ActionAid International
Women’s land rights

Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRI)

• Gender and collective action
• Publications on gender

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Gender and access to land

International Food Policy Research Institute
Women's land rights in the transition to individualized ownership : implications for the management of tree resources in western Ghana

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Gender and desertification

International Land Coalition

• Documents relating to women’s access to land
• Rural Women's Access to Land and Property in Selected Countries

Kenya Land Alliance

• The case for women’s land rights in the proposed new constitution
• Women, land and property rights and the land reforms in Kenya

OXFAM/FAO
Women’s land rights – Mailing list

Rural Development Institute
Women and land

United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN – HABITAT)
Policy Makers Guide to Women’s Land, Property and Housing Rights Across the World

Land rights and indigenous people

Organizations

• Amazon Alliance
• Amerindian Peoples Association (APA)
• Centre for the Support of Native Lands
• Comissão Pró-Índio do Acre (CPI/AC) (CPI/AC)
• Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica (COICA)
• Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Organizaciones del Campo (Cloc)
• Cordillera Peoples Alliance
• Cultural Survival
• Forest Peoples Programme (FPP)
• Hunter Gatherer Forum
• Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC)
• International Indian Treaty Council
• International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management
• International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
• Kuru Family of Organisations (KFO)
• Rainforest Foundation
• Southern Alliance for Indigenous Resources (SAFIRE)

Resources

North South Institute

• Aboriginal Peoples and Mining in Canada: Consultation, Participation and Prospects for Change
• Mining and Amerindians in Guyana
• Meaningful Consultation and Participation in the Mining Sector? A Review of the Consultation and Participation of Indigenous Peoples within the International Mining Sector
• Determining our Future, Asserting our Rights: Indigenous Peoples and Mining in West Suriname

Land rights and pastoralists

Organizations

• League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development
• Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa PENHA (PENHA)
• Pastoral Development Network
• World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples (WAMIP)
• World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism (WISP)

Resources

Groupe de Recherche et d’Action sur le Foncier (GRAF)
Kishi Beïga traverse-t’-elle une zone de turbulence ?

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Opciones institucionales para la gestión de las tierras de pastoreo

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Pastoral land tenure series

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Pastoralism and conflict

United Nations Office for the Coordination of  Humanitarian Affaires (UNOCA) Pastoralist Communication Initiative
Publications

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
Custodians of the Commons: Pastoral Land Tenure in East and West Africa

Land and environmental sustainability

Organizations

• African Conservation Centre
• Arid Lands Information Network-Eastern Africa (ALIN-EA)
• Centre for Sustainable Development (CENESTA)
• Dryland Development Centre
• Drylandscope
• Eastern Africa Environmental Network (EAEN)
• Friends of the Earth International
• Global Mechanism
• International Arid Lands Consortium (IALC)
• International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) - Drylands
• Mau Community Forest Association (MACOFA)
• Planet Survey - Environnement et Développement Durable  
• Sahel DEFIS
• Society for Development of Drought Prone Area (SDDPA)`
• United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)

Resources

Dryland Devlopment Centre
Library

Food and Agriculture Organization
Properties and management of drylands

Global Mechanism
Knowledge base

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Drylands Publications

Urban land issues

Organizations

• Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
• Cities Alliance
• Habitat International Coalition
• Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies
• International Centre for Sustainable Cities (ICSC)
• Shelter Forum
• Slum Dwellers International
• Urban Institute

Resources

Cities Alliance
Publications & Other Knowledge Resources

UN HABITAT
Publications on land

Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies
HIS Publications

Access to water

Organizations

• International Rivers Network
• Water Aid
• Women's Land and Water Rights in Southern Africa (WLWR)

Resources

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Land-water linkages in rural watersheds

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Do equal land and water rights benefit the poor?