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    Africa land rights
    Food
    Africa
    Insights
    August 11, 2014

    A Farmer In Africa: Balancing Property Rights With National Needs

    • agriculture
    • food security
    • land rights
    In Africa, farmers rely on their rights to community land, but governments don't always back them up with legislation. (photo credit: Gates Foundation/flickr)
    • agriculture
    • food security
    • land rights
    Equity & Governance
    Asia Africa Latin America
    Insights
    August 1, 2014

    Why Community Land Rights Belong in the Sustainable Development Goals

    • Equity & Governance
    • International Climate Action
    • land rights
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
    The proposed Sustainable Development Goals leave out a critical component of improving rural livelihoods—securing community land rights. Photo credit: Jane Boles, Flickr
    • Equity & Governance
    • International Climate Action
    • land rights
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
    Equity & Governance
    Asia Africa Latin America
    Data
    July 23, 2014

    Infographic: Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change

    • Climate
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • human rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • land rights
    • Climate
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • human rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • land rights
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    News
    July 23, 2014

    RELEASE: Strengthening Community Forest Rights is Critical Tool to Fight Climate Change, Says Major New Report

    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • land rights
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • land rights
    Equity & Governance
    Africa
    Insights
    May 12, 2014

    What Will it Take to End the “Resource Curses?”

    • environmental democracy
    • extractive industries
    • natural resources
    • fossil fuels
    • environmental justice
    • land rights
    Chad's oil fields continue to leach chemicals, create air pollution, and degrade Lake Chad. Photo credit: Carsen ten Brink, Flickr
    • environmental democracy
    • extractive industries
    • natural resources
    • fossil fuels
    • environmental justice
    • land rights
    Equity & Governance
    Africa
    Insights
    January 14, 2014

    New Map Documents Natural Resource Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • development
    • environmental democracy
    • extractive industries
    • land rights
    • Freshwater
    A farmer stands amidst a rice farm in Burundi, Africa. Photo Credit: Flickr/IRRI Images
    • development
    • environmental democracy
    • extractive industries
    • land rights
    • Freshwater
    Equity & Governance
    Africa
    Data
    January 14, 2014

    Rights to Resources Interactive Map

    • mapping
    • land rights
    • natural resources
    • mapping
    • land rights
    • natural resources
    Equity & Governance
    Africa
    Insights
    December 11, 2013

    Overlapping Land and Natural Resource Rights Creates Conflict in Africa

    • agriculture
    • land rights
    • natural resources
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    In much of Africa, companies' and rural communities' property rights overlap, creating conflict. Photo credit: T. Samson/CIMMYT
    • agriculture
    • land rights
    • natural resources
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Africa
    Data
    November 19, 2013

    Rights to Resources Map: Data Set

    • mapping
    • land rights
    • natural resources
    • mapping
    • land rights
    • natural resources
    Equity & Governance
    Africa
    Insights
    April 10, 2013

    Without Land, What Would a Farmer Do?

    • agriculture
    • land rights
    • poverty
    • agriculture
    • land rights
    • poverty

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