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The Legal Regime and Political Economy of Land Rights Of Scheduled Tribes in the Scheduled Areas of India

Reports & Research
February, 2018
India

This Report is the outcome of a deep commitment on part of the Land Rights Initiative research team to create systematic knowledge on land issues in India with a view to meaningfully evaluating legal and policy initiatives that can contribute to creation of more equitable land regimes for all. The Report has been in the making for five years and yet remains a work in progress. The dismal plight of the Scheduled Tribes in India is the result of complex current and historical, institutional,social, political, and economic dynamics that have been difficult for us to assess in their totality.

Stepping up: Protecting collective land rights through corporate due diliegence

Reports & Research
May, 2021
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Australia

This guide is intended to supplement other resources that provide broader overviews of human rights due diligence. It will be particularly helpful for downstream businesses or investors as they navigate how to identify, address, and track the impacts of their value chains on indigenous peoples. The guide will also be useful for policymakers as they design due diligence legislation.

A Resource Book on Participatory Geographic Information System (PGIS) for Land Rights Advocates (Volume 1)

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2018
Asia
South-Eastern Asia

This guide (volume 1) aims to equip land rights advocates, development practitioners and stallholder farmers and indigenous people’s communities with the necessary knowledge, attitude, and skills on Community Mapping and Participatory Geographic Information System (PGIS). It focuses on data collection, database management, data processing, and analysis for the production of digital maps useful in advancing the land rights agenda of rural communities, particularly indigenous communities and smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia.

Good Practice

Institutional & promotional materials
November, 2021
Latin America and the Caribbean
South America
Peru

The Global Programme 'Responsible Land Policy' (GPRLP) is part of the Special Initiative 'One World, No Hunger' of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), which aims to reduce extreme poverty and hunger.

 

Good Practice Peru: SIC Comunidades - a Rural Cadastre System

Institutional & promotional materials
November, 2021
Latin America and the Caribbean
South America
Peru

The Global Programme 'Responsible Land Policy' (GPRLP) is part of the Special Initiative 'One World, No Hunger' of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), which aims to reduce extreme poverty and hunger.

 

In Peru, ProTierras Comunales (PTC), as part of the Global Programme, aims to improve the access to land and natural resources for native communities in the Peruvian Amazon, in the regions Ucayali and San Martín. A functional and regularly updated digital cadastre system was created to improve the land titling system.

 

Compendio de Normas para el saneamiento físico legal de la propiedad agraria de los predios rurales, comunidades campesinas y comunidades nativas y catastro rural

Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2021
South America
Peru

Complementando el Compendio de Normas publicado en 2018, el Tomo II actualiza  las normas relevantes en el marco del sanamiento físico legal de la propiedad agraria de los predios rurales, comunidades campesinas y comunidades nativas y catastro rural.

 

Para más información sobre el proyecto: Land Titles for Indigenous Communities in Peru | Land Portal.

La situación de tierras, territorios y recursos naturales de los pueblos indígenas en la Amazonía peruana

Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2021
South America
Peru

Compilación de diversos artículos sobre la situación de las tierras, los territorios y los recursos naturales en la Amazonía peruana. Incluye perspectivas históricas, antropológicas, datos básicos sobre normas e instituciones, así como valiosos análisis sobre los desafíos actuales de la titulación de las comunidades nativas en las regiones de Ucayali y San Martín. 

 

Para más información sobre el proyecto: Land Titles for Indigenous Communities in Peru | Land Portal.

Rights-Based Conservation: The path to preserving Earth’s biological and cultural diversity?

Reports & Research
October, 2020
Global

Given the urgent need to prevent a collapse of biodiversity across the Earth, certain governments, organizations, and  conservationists have put forward proposals for
bringing 30 percent and up to 50 percent of the planet’s terrestrial areas under formal “protection and conservation” regimes. However, given that important

A Global Baseline of Carbon Storage in Collective Lands

Reports & Research
August, 2018
Global

Forests and other lands are essential for achieving climate and development ambitions. If appropriately leveraged, natural climate solutions can contribute upwards of 37 percent of cost-effective CO Indigenous Peoples and local communities are key to achieving such outcomes. 2 mitigation by 2030,1 and evidence shows
This report presents the most comprehensive assessment to date of carbon storage in documented community lands worldwide.
 

Autonomías Indígenas en las Tierras Altas

Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2009
Bolivia

Este documento contiene información, análisis, doctrina, legislación comparada y propuestas normativas, relativas al diseño de implementación de autonomías indígenas según la tipología de casos. Los objetivos específicos de la investigación fueron tres: 1. Proporcionar herramientas de información y análisis que faciliten el trabajo legislativo de la Comisión de Descentralización y Participación Popular. 2. Recopilar doctrina y legislación comparada para sustentar las propuestas normativas referidas a la implementación de la autonomía indígena según tipología de casos. 3.