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Beyond Title: How to Secure Land Tenure for Women

March, 2020
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land & Food Security
women
land rights
land
Introduces a new IIED blog series looking at principles to strengthen women’s land rights. Over the past 15 years pressures on land across sub-Saharan Africa have increased and these have tended to affect women more severely as they have little control over the land they traditionally use. Awareness of the importance of women’s land rights is higher than ever and global commitments to women’s land rights have never been stronger;yet there is no consensus on which strategies most effectively strengthen women’s land rights in practice.
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On Equal Ground: Promising Practices for Realizing Women’s Rights in Collectively Held Lands

Reports & Research
February, 2021
Africa, Mexico, Indonesia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
development
sustainable development
land tenure
common rights
community land rights
group tenure arrangements
commons
collective ownership
land tenure systems
common property
local communities
women
Sustainable land governance requires that all members of a community, both women and men, have equal rights and say in decisions that affect their collectively-held lands. Unfortunately, women around the world have less land ownership and weaker land rights than men – but this can change, and this report shows ways how that can be done.
- Also in
- Español
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EN IGUALDAD DE CONDICIONES. Prácticas prometedoras para la materialización de los derechos de las mujeres a las tierras de posesión colectiva

Reports & Research
February, 2021
Africa, Mexico, Indonesia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
development
sustainable development
land tenure
common rights
community land rights
group tenure arrangements
commons
collective ownership
land tenure systems
common property
local communities
women
La gobernanza sostenible de la tierra requiere que todos los miembros de una comunidad, tanto mujeres como hombres, tengan los mismos derechos y voz en las decisiones que afectan a sus tierras de propiedad colectiva. Lamentablemente, las mujeres de todo el mundo tienen menos tierra en propiedad y derechos más débiles que los hombres, pero esto puede cambiar, y este informe muestra cómo hacerlo.
- Also in
- English
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Climate Benefits, Tenure Costs.The Economic Case For Securing Indigenous Land Rights in the Amazon

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Indigenous Peoples
land rights
A large number of countries recognize the role of forests in carbon sequestration and committed in their NDCs to protect forests, reduce deforestation rates, and restore forestlands. Few NDCs, however, make any specific commitments to how their forests will be protected or restored on degraded land. It is still unclear if governments will protect forests by expanding the protected estate, improving the management of existing national parks, helping communities safeguard the forests on their lands, or by taking other measures.
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Scramble for Land Rights: Reducing Inequity between Communities and Companies

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land rights
land tenure
land tenure
land tenure systems
Indigenous and community lands, crucial for rural livelihoods, are typically held under informal customary arrangements. This can leave the land vulnerable to outside commercial interests, so communities may seek to formalize their land rights in a government registry and obtain an official land document.
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Scaling up regreening: Six steps to success. A practical approach to forest and landscape restoration

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
agroforestry systems
community forestry
drylands
forestry
land restoration
sustainable land management
In a world grappling with the challenges of food insecurity, climate change, landscape degradation, and rural poverty, regreening offers a path forward, especially in dryland areas. The transformation of degraded landscapes—restoring productivity and increasing resilience through the widespread adoption of agroforestry and sustainable land management practices—can deliver food, climate, and livelihood benefits.
Table of contents:
Part I. Introduction
Part II. How and Where is Regreening Happening?
Part III. The Impacts Of Regreening
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Road to Restoration. A Guide to Identifying Priorities and Indicators for Monitoring Forest and Landscape Restoration

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land degradation
forestry
community forestry
deforestation
agroforestry systems
land restoration
By declaring the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, the UN has recognized that there are only 10 years left to restore the world's degraded land. Countries are striving to fight climate change by 2030 through their Paris Agreement commitments and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But in many cases, their climate and development agenda are disconnected, even though sustainability and development go hand in hand – especially for rural communities. The divide is particularly severe when it comes to restoring degraded land.
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Scramble for Land Rights: Reducing Inequity between Communities and Companies

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
forestry
Indigenous Peoples
land governance
land rights
land tenure
land tenure
land tenure systems
sustainable development
women
Community land, crucial to rural livelihood around the world, is increasingly targeted by commercial interests. Its loss can lead to environmental degradation, increased rural poverty and land disputes that last for years. Without formal legal recognition of their land rights, communities struggle to protect their land from being allocated to outside investors.
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Fair share for women: Towards more equitable land compensation and resettlement in Tanzania and Mozambique

Reports & Research
December, 2018
Mozambique, Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
gender equity in access to land
land investments
land rights
Women disproportionately bear the negative impacts of large-scale land investments (in agribusiness, extractives, logging) in the global South.

▪▪Lack of formal land rights and their subordinate role in the household and community lead to the marginalization of women in decision-making processes and the bypassing of them in the distribution of compensation and the planning and implementation of resettlement.
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MINANDO DERECHOS

Tierras Indígenas y Minería en la Amazonía

Reports & Research
September, 2020
South America
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
forest conservation
indigenous peoples' lands
indigenous people's tenure
Indigenous Peoples
extractive industries

Por investigaciones anteriores de WRI, sabemos que las tasas de deforestación en tierras indígenas de laAmazonía son considerablemente más bajas que entierras no administradas por pueblos indígenas. Ahora,hemos aprendido por este informe, que la minería industrial y la minería ilegal a pequeña escala se produceen más del 20 por ciento de las tierras indígenas de laAmazonía y que las tasas de deforestación en tierras indígenas donde existe minería son signi cativamente más altas que en las tierras indígenas sin minería.