The following report synthesizes the existing data on large acquisition of forest land rights through timber concessions in developing forested countries, using the information from Rights and Resources Initiative’s (RRI) 2007 and 2008 analyses of forest ownership and administration. For a selected set of countries with high dependence on industrial-scale forest concessions, updates were possible...
This paper looks at the impact of commercial pressures upon common lands. Its main task is to identify the factors which make local possession of the commons vulnerable to involuntary loss in the face of such pressures. As preface, it elaborates what constitutes the commons.
The present paper forms part of its Global Study, and contains a careful and focused analysis of the gendered impacts of commercial pressures on land, and especially the impacts on women. The paper is based on a review of the literature on CPL to date and an analysis of the Global Study’s country case studies from a gender perspective.
The focus of this study is on international instruments that influence the food and land rights of people facing investments in agricultural land. There are many valid reasons for looking at this issue from an international perspective. First, in most cases of land investment there is another state/region or a foreign company involved. In some cases, international financial institutions (IFIs)...
Macha mission in Choma district of Southern Province, Zambia was founded by the Brethren in Christ (BIC) Church in 1906 and granted title deeds to 3,003 hectares of land by the British colonial authority of the time. Since then the Mission has built a church, a hospital (which today includes a pioneering malaria clinic), two schools, and houses for its workers. A large market has grown up near...
Desde el periodo colonial, América Latina (Indígena y Afro-descendiente) fue insertada en la economía mundial como proveedor de materias primas para sostener los patrones de producción y consumo de las metrópolis, primero, de los países “centrales” posteriormente y en la actualidad de éstos y de potencias emergentes del sur global (especialmente asiáticas).
En el marco de la implementación del Componente de Investigación para la Región Latinoamericana de la International Land Coalition (ILC), y a través del Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas Económicas, Políticas y Antropológicas (CISEPA-PUCP), unidad ejecutora de este componente, se presenta este informe, el cual constituye un balance del debate sobre los agrobiocombustibles. Esta investigación...
La Convención sobre la Eliminación de Todas las Formas de Discriminación contra la Mujer (CEDAW) es el único tratado de derechos humanos que se ocupa específicamente de la mujer rural, destacando la necesidad de su participación y el acceso a servicios sociales básicos ,por lo tanto, es una herramienta poderosa para abogar por las mujeres rurales. La ILC ha producido esta Nota informativa de la...
Esta caja de herramientas está basada en materiales desarrollados para la formación de capacidades para la incidencia en el proyecto de la ILC titulado “Asegurando el acceso de las mujeres a la tierra: vinculación entre la investigación y la acción”, llevado a cabo en África del este y del sur entre el 2007 – 2010. El núcleo de este proyecto fue la investigación orientada a la acción llevada a...
Using a broad historical and conceptual scope, this paper acknowledges the difficulties in drawing neat conclusions regarding a long history of unequal relations around agricultural production and trade. However, it draws attention to the ways in which powerful states, international financial institutions (IFIs), and international corporations have worked in tandem to reduce the options available...
