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  1. Library Resource
    Challenges and opportunities of recognizing and protecting customary tenure systems in Cambodia
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2019
    Cambodia

    This policy brief was developed in order to enable a meaningful engagement and policy dialogue with government institutions and other relevant stakeholders about challenges and opportunities related to recognizing customary tenure in Cambodia.

  2. Library Resource
    Challenges and opportunities of recognizing and protecting customary tenure systems in Viet Nam
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2019
    Vietnam

    This policy brief was developed in order to enable a meaningful engagement and policy dialogue with government institutions and other relevant stakeholders about challenges and opportunities related to recognizing customary tenure in Viet Nam.

  3. Library Resource
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    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2002
    Philippines

    This article summarizes the nature of land-related conflicts in the Philippines within the context of the prevailing agrarian situation throughout the country. An analysis of the agrarian institutions and different types of development that have occurred in a number of regions provide a broad representation of the current situation.

  4. Library Resource
    mainstreaming governance - philippines-fao
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    February, 2019
    Philippines

    Land-based sectors in the Philippines are affected by institutional

    weaknesses in various ways, including overlapping and conflicting

    policies, laws and programmes, a lack of reform in public land

    management and inadequate funding for urban development, disaster

    mitigation and climate change. Land governance has thus been given

    paramount importance in recent years. However, security of tenure

    for all remains a challenge as the existing institutional set-up fails

  5. Library Resource
    review of selected land law

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

    Reports & Research
    October, 2014
    Philippines

    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

  6. Library Resource
    economic smallholders - FAO

    An analysis based on household data from nine countries

    Reports & Research
    March, 2015
    Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Albania

    About two-thirds of the developing world’s 3 billion rural people live in about 475 million small farm households, working on land plots smaller than 2 hectares. 1 Many are poor and food insecure and have limited access to markets and services. Their choices are constrained, but they farm their land and produce food for a substantial proportion of the world’s population. Besides farming they have multiple economic activities, often in the informal economy, to contribute towards their small incomes.

  7. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    February, 2013
    Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, South-Eastern Asia

    It has been proven time and again that integrating gender issues into forestry policies and practices by addressing women’s roles and needs is central to the sustainable management, conservation and governance of forests. In the Asia-Pacific region alone, there are about 450 million people who rely on forests for their livelihoods and 50% of them are women. 

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2005
    South-Eastern Asia

    In search of excellence deviates from the path that most authors have taken. Instead of dwelling on the failures and the negative, it celebrates the “good” and the many positive management efforts in the Asia–Pacific region. It highlights the many people who are striving for excellence in forest management and seeks to encourage others to emulate these positive efforts. Collectively, the story of forestry that emerges may be more about endeavour and ingenuity than greed, indifference and incompetence.

  9. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2015
    Thailand

    This brief discusses how gender perspectives are being integrated in Thailand's forest policies, laws and regulations in terms of women's representation, participation, access and decision-making in forest use and management. The brief also highlights the key challenges that prevail and outlines recommendations to promote gender mainstreaming further in forestry.

  10. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    May, 2015
    Global, South-Eastern Asia

    The outcomes of COP 20 are expected to have a significant impact on developments in the field of forests and climate change over the coming year. In view of this, forest sector stakeholders in Asia and the Pacific require succinct and accurate information on the implications of the COP 20 discussions and their significance to forest policy decisions and practice.

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