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WEBINAR: Artisanal Mining, Property Rights, and Development

December 19, 2016

This webinar from USAID explored the key issues around artisanal mining, including its relationship to land rights, conflict, economic growth, as well as how artisanal mining may have devastating environmental consequences. It also addressed how local and regional contexts for different mining commodities—such as diamonds and gold—may change how development practitioners address issues faced by artisanal […]

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BLOG: Reach, Benefit, or Empower: Clarifying Gender Strategies of Development Projects

December 1, 2016

Originally posted on research program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health As evidence is growing about the importance of women as key agents in agriculture, food security and nutrition, more agricultural development projects are striving to address gender; and some even include women’s empowerment as a direct or indirect objective. Yet projects with stated goals […]

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RESOURCES: Open Access Special Issue: Gender Perspectives in Resilience, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Global Environmental Change

November 28, 2016

The main goal of this special issue "Gender perspectives in resilience, vulnerability and adaptation to global environmental change" is to offer a room for interdisciplinary and engaged research in global environmental change (GEC), where gender plays a key role in building resilience and adaptation pathways.  This special issue consist of 13 papers; the editorial paper explains the […]

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RESOURCES: The Forest-Climate Nexus in Policy and Economics

November 23, 2016

In the context of the recent climate negotiations at COP 22 in Marrakech, Forest Policy and Economics is providing free access to the virtual special issue of  The forest-climate nexus in policy and economics for three months. This special issue provides free access to up to date research results on multiple political and economic aspects of forests’ […]

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BLOG: Women’s Access to Land in Ghana: Are We Asking the Right Questions And Are We Drawing the Right Conclusions?

November 21, 2016

Originally posted on the Engendering Data Blog, maintained by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets With increased recognition of the importance of gender in development, researchers now often collect data disaggregated at the individual or intra-household level, sometimes with a great amount of detail involved. Yet, once in a while we may need […]

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RESOURCES: New Version of the Social Tenure Domain Model Now Available

October 20, 2016

In many countries, land administration systems do not have nationwide coverage, in addition they are limited in their ability to include  informal and customary rights.  The concept of the Social Tenure Domain Model is to bridge this gap by providing a standard for representing ‘people – land’ relationships independent of the level of formality, legality and technical […]

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NEWSLETTER: FTA Gender Newsletter

October 17, 2016

This newsletter, prepare by the FTA gender integration team and published approximately 3 times a year, aims  to serve as a mechanism for knowledge sharing, especially on good practices and lessons learned on gender research. It is a product of the collaboration between the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bioversity […]

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RESOURCES: LandLinks Portal

October 17, 2016

USAID E3/Land is excited to announce the launch of the new USAID land tenure and property rights portal: LANDLINKS, information hub, connecting USAID staff, development practitioners, and land experts to the latest events, trainings, research, and news on land and natural resource rights from around the world. LandLinks was created by E3/Land, a USAID Office […]

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RESOURCES: Women’s Shifting Rights To Precious Tree Resources In Burkina Faso

October 10, 2016

Néré (Parkia biglobosa)—the African locust bean—is a very important tree species not only in Burkina Faso but across West Africa. It plays a significant role in the diet of rural and urban populations in Burkina Faso’s Sudano-Sahelian zone. The fruit provides seeds, which women process into a highly nutritious sauce (soumbala) that is eaten with […]

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BLOG: “As A Wife I Will Help, Manage, And Love” The Value Of Qualitative Research In Understanding Land Tenure And Gender In Ghana

October 10, 2016

Associate Research Fellow Isabel Lambrecht argues in this IFPRI's blog that qualitative field work aiming at understanding the local context is not a frivolous activity. For highly contested topics, such as gender and land, and in contexts where custom dominates, rigorous qualitative empirical work may lead to valuable insights and research outputs. The literature on […]

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