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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information. We help developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all. Since our founding in 1945, we have focused special attention on developing rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world's poor and hungry people.
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Displaying 146 - 150 of 168Securing tenure rights for forest landscape-dependent communities: linking science with policy to advance tenu
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This research is exploring the relationships between statutory and customary land tenure and how these relationships affect the tenure security of forest dependent communities, including women and other marginalized groups. Through the use of a global comparative approach and standardized methodologies, this research programme is analyzing differential success or failure of policy and institutional innovations intended to enhance secure tenure rights for forest and trees, and identify strategies that are likely to lead to desired outcomes.
VGGT based forest tenure and CBF assessments - Congo Brazzaville, Gabon, Honduras, Mongolia, Portugal, Senegal
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VGGT based forest tenure and CBF assessments conducted in each of the countries. In Gabon and Congo Brazzaville the assessments will inform Ministry of Forests on status and challenges of CBF, and recommendations for improvement. In Honduras and Senegal, the assessments will be used to inform on-going forestry programs and design of new projects. In Mongolia, the assessment will be used to promote implementation of the VGGT and inform the pasture law being drafted. In Portugal, the findings are being used to promote policy dialogue on communal forest land tenure and management. In Zambia the assessments will inform the on-going FAO Technical Cooperation Program on Sustainable Forest and Woodland Management for Food and Nutrition Security in Western Province of Zambia.
Supporting the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fis
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The project will identify and help to strengthen the innovative approaches that countries have adopted to translate the VGGT principles into practice, helping them set an inspiring example for others, and fostering a space for a two-way dialogue between countries and global level. The Phase II project activities and interventions are based on three thematic areas that correspond to the three main outputs: a) tenure governance processes to support responsible investments in agricultural land are enhanced and associated capacities strengthened; b) tenure rights and their governance processes are supported and strengthened at country/regional level; and c) the capacities of vulnerable and marginalized groups to improve tenure governance are strengthened.
Regional programme to improve governance of tenure in Latin America and the Caribbean
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The project aims at improving governance of tenure in the region by promoting research and policy dialogue on (i) access to land; (ii) monitoring governance; (iii) improving land administration; (iv) articulating public policies to ensure territorial development.