This chapter discusses sociocultural and political processes constraining Indigenous and Afrodescendant women's community forestry engagement, and how this influences their decision-making and benefit-sharing participation. Based on multi-stakeholder platform discussions by Latin American Indigenous and Afrodescendant women, it focuses on systemic and structural constraints on their visibility and effectiveness as peer political rightsholders. It presents the factors required to advocate for secure women's rights in collective tenure systems and community forestry initiatives. These highlight the need to broaden the definition of community forestry to ensure women's recognition as legitimate stakeholders, and their role in ethno-territorial livelihood strategies and knowledges.
This socio-legal analysis provides an overview of existing land governance arrangements in The Gambia as they relate to women's access to land and resources. It discusses two different types of land tenure interventions: title deeds and certification. These inventions vary according to different types of recognized rights-holders and the area in which rights are being formalized. Access to and control over land and other productive resources in The Gambia is shaped by complex tenure systems. Coexisting and interacting customary systems and statutory regulations are influenced by reform processes, with differentiated effects in rural and urban areas. Rights to resources are often negotiated across multiple rights-holders, overlapping tenure regimes and resource systems. Despite important progress through legislative reforms, implementation has been slow and prevailing barriers and gaps continue to influence the recognition of women's land rights and their ability to benefit from them.
Le Centre de recherche forestière internationale (CIFOR) a lancé en Indonésie, en Ouganda et au Pérou le projet GCS-Tenure, une étude comparative mondiale sur la réforme du foncier forestier. Ce projet a vocation à comparer le régime foncier coutumier et celui qui est inscrit dans la loi, et à étudier l'incidence de leur rapport sur la sécurité foncière des communautés qui dépendent des forêts, notamment des femmes et autres groupes marginalisés. En procédant à des comparaisons à l'échelle mondiale et à l'aide de méthodologies standardisées, cette étude analyse les différences quant à la réussite ou à l'échec des innovations destinées à renforcer la sécurité des droits fonciers, qu'elles soient institutionnelles ou concernent les politiques publiques. Elle permet aussi d'examiner comment ces innovations déterminent les stratégies susceptibles de conduire aux résultats désirés. L'analyse prospective participative (PPA) est une première étape qui permet de mobiliser les principales parties prenantes. Grâce à des réunions participatives, tous les experts définissent et élaborent progressivement un éventail de scénarios de sécurité foncière. Ils conçoivent ensuite les actions correspondant aux scénarios définis. En appliquant la PPA, l'équipe de chercheurs vise à répondre aux questions suivantes : Quels sont les principaux facteurs qui influencent la sécurité du foncier forestier ? Quelles sont les actions possibles pour atténuer les conséquences néfastes (ou aplanir les obstacles qui freinent la mise en œuvre) et favoriser un changement positif (p. ex., un accès équitable pour les femmes et les groupes marginalisés) ? Qui doit être responsable de ces actions ? L'analyse prospective participative est destinée à aider les instances de décision à comprendre les facteurs clés, les difficultés et les conséquences futures des choix stratégiques.
Indigenous and community lands, crucial for rural livelihoods, are typically held under informal customary tenure arrangements. This can leave the land vulnerable to outside commercial interests, so communities may seek to formalize their land rights in a government registry and obtain an official land document. But this process can be time-consuming and complex, and in contrast, companies can acquire land relatively quickly and find shortcuts around regulatory burdens. This article reviews and maps 19 community land formalization and 14 company land acquisition procedures is 15 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Comparing community and company procedures identifies multiple sources of inequity.
This 26th dossier d'Agropolis is devoted to research and partnerships in agroecology. The French Commission for International Agricultural Research (CRAI) and Agropolis International, on behalf of CIRAD, INRAE and IRD and in partnership with CGIAR, has produced this new issue in the 'Les dossiers d'Agropolis international' series devoted to agroecology. This publication has been produced within the framework of the Action Plan signed by CGIAR and the French government on February 4th 2021 to strengthen French collaboration with CGIAR, where agroecology is highlighted as one of the three key priorities (alongside climate change, nutrition and food systems).