A guest post by Nayna J Jhaveri, Ph.D., Resource Tenure Specialist, Tetra Tech
Search results
Showing items 1 through 9 of 226.-
Library ResourceMarch, 2014Mozambique, Poland
-
Library ResourceFebruary, 2014Bangladesh, India, Pakistan
A guest post by Bholanath Chakladar, a District Project Manager for Landesa India in West Bengal. This post originally appeared on Landesa's Field Focus Blog.
Last week, 55,339 destitute families across West Bengal received legal title to a micro-plot of land. The state of West Bengal, in partnership with Landesa, has been on the forefront of addressing extreme rural poverty through providing poor, landless, rural families with a small plot of land where they can live and grow food. Thus far, West Bengal has provided more than 160,000 landless families with micro-plots. -
Library ResourceFebruary, 2014Kenya
USAID/Kenya/OTI Deputy Country Representative, Galeeb Kachra, and Assistant Lands Commissioner, Mr Gituku, in front of the Thika Lands Registry
-
Library ResourceJanuary, 2014Haiti, Philippines
By Dr. Gregory Myers, USAID Division Chief, Land Tenure and Property Rights.
Last week, I visited Haiti to assess the land tenure and property rights situation there—four years after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake killed between 100,000 and 300,000 people and displaced another 1.5 million. Many Haitians continue to live in extreme poverty and much needs to be done to address the weak property rights system that slows economic growth and hinders infrastructure rebuilding efforts. -
Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2013United States of America
By Peter Giampaoli, Climate Change Specialist, Land Tenure and Property Rights Division, USAID. Clear, secure rights to manage and use forests are an important aspect of sustaining traditions and economic opportunities. Although this web site often discusses property rights in the context of developing countries, insecure title and undocumented land rights can undermine smallholder ownership in the United States as well.
-
Library ResourceDecember, 2013Costa Rica, Philippines, Poland, Spain
A guest post by Robert Oberndorf, Resource Law Specialist, Tenure and Global Climate Change Project
-
Library ResourceDecember, 2013Bangladesh, Colombia, India, Kenya
Guest commentary by Dr. Cynthia M. Caron, Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change, Clark University.
-
Library ResourceDecember, 2013Peru, Poland
By Dr. Matt Sommerville, Chief of Party, Tenure and Global Climate Change Project.
At the recently concluded 2013 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference in Warsaw, Poland, negotiators agreed to a landmark set of decisions. After seven years of negotiations, United Nations (UN) member states reached a consensus on a framework to reward countries for REDD+ actions (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation).
[Read more on the background of REDD+ negotiations and the links to land tenure and natural resource rights.] -
Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2013Ethiopia, United Kingdom, Germany
USAID is pleased to announce a first-of-its-kind partnership between the Governments of Ethiopia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Federal Republic of Germany to improve rural land governance. Building on existing programs and the seven land country partnerships announced at this year’s G8 Open for Growth Summit, this new partnership will support greater transparency in rural land governance, promote responsible agricultural investment, and improve Ethiopia’s legal framework and practices related to rural land administration and land use.
-
Library ResourceMapsNovember, 2013Global
Over the past year, USAID has led a global effort in the land and resource governance sector to improve donor coordination and support the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National Food Security(Voluntary Guidelines). Working with the Global Donor Working Group on Land, a newly formed group of bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors and development agencies, USAID led a data collection and visualization project that gathered information on land and resource governance programs from around the globe.
Land Library Search
Through our robust search engine, you can search for any item of the over 64,800 highly curated resources in the Land Library.
If you would like to find an overview of what is possible, feel free to peruse the Search Guide.