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Etude des articulations entre mode de tenure foncière et pratiques agricoles dans le Nord-Ouest de la région des Savanes, au Togo

Reports & Research
November, 2014
Togo
agricultural land management
farming systems
land tenure
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Autonomía indígena en Panamá: las comarcas indígenas

Reports & Research
November, 2014
Panama
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
collective ownership
indigenous people's tenure
Este documento analiza la creación de las comarcas indígenas en Panamá desde una perspectiva legal.
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Forest Dependency in Rural Azerbaijan

Based on the Case Study in Zagatala district

Reports & Research
October, 2014
Azerbaijan
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
forestry
forest conservation
forest land
forest management plans
In the Republic of Azerbaijan forested areas cover 1,021 hectares of the land, which is 11.8% of the country’s territory. In the 18th-19th centuries however, this figure stood at 30- 35%. The per capita forest area is 0.12 hectares, which is 4 times less (0.48 hectares) than the average international indicator.
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Autonomía indígena en Panamá: las comarcas indígenas

Reports & Research
November, 2014
Panama
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
indigenous peoples' lands
collective ownership
communal ownership
indigenous people's tenure
La Constitución Política de la República de Panamá de 1972 (CPR), “reconoce y respeta la identidad étnica de las comunidades indígenas nacionales”, y dispone que el Estado debe establecer programas tendientes al desarrollo de dichas culturas y su protección. Este texto revisar la normativa legal que reconoce las comarcas indígenas como territorios indígenas autogobernados.
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Mainstreaming Land Acquisition and Resettlement Safeguards in the Central and West Asia Region

Azerbaijan Country Assessment: Consultant's Report

Reports & Research
November, 2014
Azerbaijan
expropriation
land law
land policies
property law
land acquisitions
compulsory acquisitions
resettlement
This Country Assessment (CA) for Azerbaijan is prepared under the ADB Regional Technical Assistance (RETA) 7433: Mainstreaming Land Acquisition and Resettlement Safeguards in the Central and West Asia Region. The RETA objective is to foster more effective infrastructure development in the region through the improvement of land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) practices.This country assessment entailed an analysis of project documents, a review of national legislation and questionnaires/interviews with representatives of state agencies, and LAR-affected communities.
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Gobernanza responsable de la tenencia de la tierra

Aplicabilidad en Bolivia y Perú de las ´Directrices voluntarias sobre la governanza responsable de la tenencia de la tierra, la pesca y los bosques en el contexto de la seguridad alimentaria nacional´

Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2014
Bolivia, Peru
Land & Food Security
VGGT
food security
fisheries
land tenure
Las Directrices Voluntarias sobre la Gobernanza responsable de la tenencia de la tierra, la pesca y los bosques –pese a las críticas por su carácter transaccional y no vinculante– se constituyen en una importante herramienta que orienta y genera información sobre las prácticas internacionalmente aceptadas para los sistemas que regulan los derechos de uso, gestión y control de la tierra, la pesca y los bosques.
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Conflict, forced displacement and health in Sri Lanka: a review of the research landscape

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2014
Sri Lanka
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
post-conflict settings
resilience
conflicts
displacement
land conflicts
research
Sri Lanka has recently emerged from nearly three decades of protracted conflict, which came to an end five years ago in 2009. A number of researchers have explored the devastating effect the conflict has had on public health, and its impact on Sri Lanka’s health system - hailed as a success story in the South Asian region. Remarkably, no attempt has been made to synthesize the findings of such studies in order to build an evidence-informed research platform. This review aims to map the ‘research landscape’ on the impact of conflict on health in Sri Lanka.
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Social Institutions and Gender Index 2014-Synthesis Report

Reports & Research
November, 2014
Philippines
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land governance
land rights
land access
women
Discrimination against women and girls carries a high development cost. This
third edition of the SIGI captures and measures gender-based discrimination in social
institutions
− social norms, practices and laws
− across 160 countries. It exposes the
ongoing prevalence of discrimination in all regions of the world and across all cultures
irrespective of their levels of income or development. The 2014 edition of the SIGI
testifies to the global nature of gender inequality but provides evidence that national
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Review of Selected Land Laws and the Governance of Tenure in the Philippines

Discussion Paper in the context of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure (VGGT)

Reports & Research
October, 2014
Philippines
land governance
land policies
land reform
land use
land rights
land tenure
This discussion paper on the “VGGT and National Policies on the Governance of Tenure”3

has

been commissioned by the Asian NGO Coalition (ANGOC) as a member of the Philippine

Development Forum – Working Group on Sustainable Rural Development (PDF-SRD).4 This

paper examines national policies as embodied in the 1987 Philippine Constitution and the

major land and natural resource laws passed by the Philippine legislature. This research is
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Land conflicts in North Caucasus: intensifying the confrontation

Reports & Research
October, 2014
United Kingdom, Norway, United States of America
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
conflicts
land
land conflicts
Land conflicts in 2013 continued to occupy an important position in the socio-economic and political agenda in the North Caucasus. North Caucasus, Dagestan Republic