A Resource Book on Enhancing Access of the Poor to Land and Common Property Resources
File under: Agrarian Reform and Access to Land, Featured
Date of Publication: 2006
This Resource book is a wealthy compilation of articles with succinct discussions on the issues of the poor around access to land and other common property resources. While it does not prescribe a particular approach, the book provides valuable discussion of the land tenure situations of certain Asian, African and Latin American countries as well as strategies and tools drawn from the experiences of people’s groups to gain access and better control of their resources. It is a joint production of the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) and the International Land Coalition (ILC). This publication has no copyright making it free for adaptation and dissemination. The publishers only request that due acknowledgment be given to specific authors and the publishers.
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A Resouce Book on Enhancing Access of the Poor to Land and Common Property Resources
Chapter 1: Land & Access Rights for the Poor
- What Critics Say Against Agrarian Reform
- Land Rights and Rights-Based Principles
- Understanding Property Rights
- Strengthening Property Rights for the Poor
- Collective Action and Property Rights for the Poor
- International Covenants on Minority Rights
- Access to Land: The Bonn Statement
- Common Property Rights in Bhutan: Towards Gross National Happiness
- Agrarian Reform as a Poverty Reduction Strategy
- Progressing from Land Tenure to Broad-based Development
- Mobilizing Collective Action Towards the Provision of Public Goods
Chapter 2: Assessing Agrarian Reform Programs
- Redistributive Land Reforms in Asia
- Agrarian Reform Programs in Selected Asian Countries: An Overview
- Assessing Filipino Peasants Based on Access to Land
- Assessing the Impact of Agrarian Reform Programs: The Philippine Case
- Struggles in Implementing Agrarian Reform in the Philippines
- Reviving Land Reforms in Indonesia
- Land Reforms in Latin America
- Land Reforms in East Africa
- The Land Policy Process in Burkina: Building a National Consensus on Access to Land
Chapter 3: Land and Resource Conflicts
- Land Dynamics and Violent Conflicts
- Uncertain Tenure for the Char Dwellers of Bangladesh
- Land Disputes in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
- How Donor Policies Can Address Land Conflicts
- Training for Land Dispute Resolution in Cambodia
Chapter 4: Women’s Access to Land & Resources
- Discrimination in Women’s Access to Land and Property: Responses and Realities
- Women and Property Rights in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa
- Women’s Land Rights Under Customary and Formal Tenure Systems
- Gender and Resource Rights: Policy In Social Context
- Water Rights and Women’s Empowerment
Chapter 5: Managing Common Property Resources
- Using Forest Resources Sustainably: Local Solutions from Lao PDR
- Tenure Arrangements for Non-Timber Forest Products in Southern Laos
- Sharing a Common Pot: Community Management of Forest Food Resources in Lao PDR
- Restoring Nepal’s Hillforests Through Community Based Forestry Leasehold
- Factors Influencing Changes in Shifting Cultivation in Asia
- Equitable Resource Access Under Shifting Cultivation Systems in Northeast India
- Impact Privatization on Fallow Management
- Private Rights in Public Forests: The Practice of Sokshing in Bhutan
- Community-based Co-management of Grassland Resources in Mongolia
- Right to Water: In Search of a Legal Basis
- Collective Action and Comanagement in Fisheries
- Common Property Resource Issues in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas
Chapter 6: Institutional Dimensions in Common Property Resources (CPRs)
- Social Capital and Management of the Commons: The Kalahan Case
- Customary Institutions as a Force for Conservation and Good Governance in Mongolia
- Impact of Customary Law on Land Rights and Natural Resource Management Practices
- Restoring Traditional CBNRM in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Forest Policy Reform in Vietnam: From State to Household Forestry
- Campesino Communities and Land Use
- Collective Management of Rangelands Under Different Tenure Systems
- Development of Common Property Institutions in South Africa
- Governance of the Commons Under a Privatization Regime
- Promoting Linkages in CBNRM
Chapter 7: Approaches Used to Facilitate Access to Land and CPRs
- Principles of Formulating Land Policies: A Policy Framework
- Policy Designs for Land Management
- Influencing Government Policy Through Advocacy
- The Role of Different Stakeholders in Implementing Land Policies
- Can Land Funds Work for the Poor? A Learning Experience from Ecuador
- Collective Farming as a Transition Strategy for Beneficiaries of Agrarian Reform
- GPS and 3D Mapping: Effective Tools to Establish Ancestral Domain Claims
- Land Use Planning in the Uplands of Lao PDR
- The Community Resource Balance Sheet
- Peasant Paralegals: A Means to Fast-track Agrarian Reform
- Communal Titling for Cambodia’s Indigenous Peoples
- Enhancing Access of the Poor to Urban and Peri-urban Land for Food Production
Chapter 8: Internet Resources on Land and Common Property Resources
- AGRITERRA
- Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC)
- CAPRI – The System-Wide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)
- Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) Law and Communities Program
- Common Property Resources Institutions
- The Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network
- Deutsche Welthungerhilfe/ German Agro Action
- Digital Library of the Commons
- FAO Glossary
- FAO Legal Service
- FAO SD Dimensions
- FIAN International
- Deutsche Gesellschaft for Technische Zusammenarbeit/German Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
- IASCP – International Association for the Study of Common Property
- id21: Communicating Development Research
- IDRC’s Environment and Natural Resource Program
- IDRC’s Virtual Resource Centre Website on Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Asia
- International Land Coalition (ILC)
- International NGO/CSO Planning Committee on Food Sovereignty
- Landnet America
- Land Tenure Info – BELTS Basic Elements of Land Tenure Systems
- Land Research Action Network (LRAN)
- Land Tenure Center (LTC)
- OXFAM Great Britain
- United Nations Development Programme: Drylands Development Centre
- UNESCO: Register of Best Practices on Indigenous Knowledge
- WISARD Organisation
