Record Category: Articles
Who Owns the World’s Land? A global baseline of formally recognized indigenous and community land rights
Legal Empowerment for Persons with Disabilities: Sustainable Options for Marginalized/Vulnerable Communities in Nigeria
This paper reviews the current social, legal and regulatory framework for persons with disabilities in Nigeria as well as existing models of legal empowerment that can apply to such vulnerable groups. Proposes an approach for a sustainable and effective model of legal empowerment for persons with disabilities in Nigeria.
Perceived Tenure (In)Security in the Era of Rural Transformation: Gender-Disaggregated Analysis from Mozambique
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Discussion Paper 01799
A new pastoral code for Tunisia: Reversing degradation across the country’s critical rangelands
Differentiations in Women’s Land Tenure Experiences: Implications for Women’s Land Access and Tenure Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
Full citation: Chigbu, U.E.; Paradza, G.; Dachaga, W. Differentiations in Women’s Land Tenure Experiences: Implications for Women’s Land Access and Tenure Security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Land 2019, 8, 22.
Gender Equality as an Accelerator for Achieving the SDGs
"The evidence collected in this discussion paper shows that gender equality is critical to achieving a wide range of objectives pertaining to sustainable development. These include promoting economic growth and labour productivity, reducing poverty, enhancing human capital through health and education, attaining food security, addressing climate change impacts and strengthening resilience to disasters, and ensuring more peaceful and inclusive communities. It therefore argues that accelerating gender equality in all spheres of society leads to a more rapid increase in progress towards achieving the 2030 Agenda."
China: Ensuring Women’s Rights to Grassland and Related Subsidies and Rewards
One of six case studies informing the synthesis report "Gender and Collectively Held Land: Good Practices and Lessons Learned from Six Global Case Studies."
Ghana: Gender and the Land Access and Tenure Security Project
One of six case studies informing the synthesis report "Gender and Collectively Held Land: Good Practices and Lessons Learned from Six Global Case Studies."
Kyrgyz Republic: Women and Community Pasture Management
One of six case studies informing the synthesis report "Gender and Collectively Held Land: Good Practices and Lessons Learned from Six Global Case Studies."