EastAgri
EastAgri is a network of institutions coordinated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Investment Centre committed to improving the agricultural and agribusiness...
View ArticleLand tenure and property rights assessment for Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan was one of the first countries from the former Soviet Union (FSU) to privatize agricultural land and remains the only country of the five Central Asian countries that has distributed land to...
View ArticleKyrgyz Livestock Study. Pasture Management and Land Use.
The document provides a comprehensive study on past and current land management, including an overview of legislation on pasture access and management, and pratical examples of pasture management in...
View ArticleForest Management and Use in the Kyrgyz Republic: Development Potential
The overarching goal of this study was to understand the bottlenecks and the incentives present in forest management in the Kyrgyz Republic.read more
View ArticleFAO release five new country profiles in the Gender and Land Rights Database
The Gender and Land Rights Database was launched by FAO in 2010 to highlight the major social, economic, political and cultural factors that influence the enforcement of women’s land rights across...
View ArticleLand in the right hands - Promoting women's rights to land in Kyrgyzstan and...
Here it is an interesting publication from UN Women on the work done by the UN entity - and UNIFEM before its establishment in 2011 - to promote women’s empowerment in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan through...
View ArticleExpert Group Meeting: Good practices in realizing women's rights to...
Papers and presentations from the OHCHR - UN Women expert group meeting on “Good practices in realizing women’s rights to productive resources, with a focus on land” are now available.read more
View ArticleUN Women, FAO, IFAD and WFP launch five-year initiative “Accelerating...
[adapted from UNWomen]27 September 2012-“Accelerating Progress Toward the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women” is a five-year initiative of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of...
View ArticleLand grabbing, investment principles and plural legal orders of land use
“Recently, foreign direct investment in land, also termed ‘land grabbing’, has increased significantly in developing countries.read more
View ArticleAsia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)
Who We AreAPWLD is the region’s leading network of feminist organisations and women. Our 180 members represent groups of diverse women from 25 countries in the region. We have been active for nearly 25...
View ArticleRoster Of Expert Consultants, Gender Mainstreaming
Gender equality is central to FAO’s mandate for achieving food security for all by raising levels of nutrition, improving agricultural productivity and natural resource management and, improving the...
View ArticleConflicts over land. A role for responsible and inclusive business (2014) -...
CSR Asia has published a new report on Conflicts Over Land: A Role of Responsible and Inclusive Business. The report examines the rise of “land grabs” in Asia and how this impacts on poor and...
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