ResourcesIssue Briefs

Gender Learning Brief: Gender in Community Fisheries & Mangroves Management in Cambodia

This Learning Brief, co-authored with Parliamentary Centre of Asia, highlights findings from a baseline survey and qualitative assessments Landesa’s local partners carried out in five Community Fisheries (CFis) in Cambodia that are part of a Coastal Livelihoods and Mangroves project. The brief describes gender dynamics in CFi participation and management, notes root causes of inequities related to social norms and local beliefs, and provides insights into effective interventions and pathways for strengthening CFis, livelihoods, and mangrove ecosystem health through gender equality.

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Progress towards the SDG land rights commitments (2024)

This brief provides a detailed description of an analysis assessing what progress countries have made toward SDG land rights indicators 1.4.2, 5.a.1, and 5.a.2.

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Progress towards the SDG land degradation and restoration commitments (2023)

This brief provides a detailed description of an analysis assessing what progress countries have made toward SDG 15.3 on land degradation neutrality and the indicator that tracks this commitment, 15.3.1.

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Links between Women’s Land Tenure Security and Climate Action: An Evidence Brief

Although existing evidence points to meaningful linkages between land tenure and climate change, findings can fail to critically consider whose land tenure security, decisions, and practices contribute to key climate change outcomes, and how. Enhanced understanding of the complex and critical connections between women’s land tenure security and climate can advance our knowledge of the investments and planning needed to mitigate climate change and achieve more resilient futures.

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Youth Hold The Key

Secure land rights are central to unlocking the potential of youth around the world; to activating a new generation of agricultural innovators and empowered young women.

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Youth Land Rights in Tanzania: Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Options

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Land Rights for People in Rural Areas can Improve Forest Management, Halt Deforestation

In 2019 the world lost 46,000 square miles of forest every six seconds. The destruction of these forests – which shelter a kaleidoscope of plant and animal species, offer live­lihoods for indigenous and local communities, and store vast amounts of carbon necessary to mitigate climate change – is preventable. With strong land rights, women and men across the globe can slow down deforestation and contribute to restoring forests.

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Responsible Land Governance Key to Vulnerable Countries’ Adaptive Capacity

Enshrining land governance and land tenure security within policy frameworks is essential to providing a foundation to support women and men smallholder farmers, and indigenous and local communities across the Global South sustainably manage their lands and better adapt to the effects of climate change. Doing so is also critical for governments to effectively manage climate displacement to prevent further poverty, inequality, conflict and land degradation.

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Smallholder Farming and Achieving Global Development Goals

This brief makes the case that smallholder farms can be more productive than large farms. Investments in infrastructure, technology, inputs and land rights for small farmers – especially for women – can boost agricultural productivity, create employment, reduce poverty, and empower women.

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Women’s Secure Rights to Land

This issue brief describes the best practices to overcome barriers against securing women’s rights to land to unlock the socioeconomic benefits gained when rural women have secure rights to the land they farm and build a home upon to support themselves and their families.

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