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WOMEN & LAND RIGHTS - CORRUPTION - LAND GRABBING - VULNERABILITY

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UN News Centre - Link to Full Article

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40698&Cr=corruption&Cr1=

CORRUPTION LEADING TO UNEQUAL ACCESS & USE OF LAND - UN - WOMEN

12 December 2011 – Corruption caused by weak governance is leading to unequal land distribution and poor resource management, according to a United Nations report released today, which argues that this lack of transparency is undermining social stability, investment and growth in developing countries.

Weak land governance occurs as a result of low levels of transparency, accountability and the rule of law, the report says, which strains “the rules, processes and institutions that determine which land resources are used, by whom, for how long, and under what conditions.”

The report, jointly produced by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Transparency International, found that in more than 61 countries weak governance has increased the likelihood of corruption in land occupancy and administration, intensifying the impact of pressures on land use, agriculture and food security worldwide.......

Direct Link to Full 12-Page Working Paper: CORRUPTION IN THE LAND SECTOR -http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/am943e/am943e00.pdf

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Full UN Special Rapporteur Food Statement Text:

http://www.srfood.org/index.php/en/component/content/article/1664-vulnerable-land-users-must-be-protected-by-international-guidelines-un-expert-urges-rome-summit

"Vulnerable land users must be protected by international guidelines," - UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.

[3 October 2011] GENEVA – “Land rights are the first building block on the road to achieving food security, and without international consensus on how land should be governed, the interests of vulnerable land users will continue to be swept aside......"

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http://www.landcoalition.org/publications/strategies-get-gender-agenda-%E2%80%9Cland-grab%E2%80%9D-debate

STRATEGIES TO GET GENDER ONTO THE AGENDA OF THE LAND GRAB DEBATE

Author: Elizabeth Daley - 2011

Direct Link to Full 5-Page Publication: http://www.landcoalition.org/sites/default/files/publication/1010/6_PBs_mokoro.pdf

The International Land Coalition (ILC)’s Commercial Pressures on Land initiative aims to support the efforts of ILC members and other stakeholders to influence global, regional, and national processes to enable secure and equitable access to land for poor women and men in the face of increasing commercial demand. Its global research contains a careful and focused analysis of the gendered impacts of commercial pressures on land (CPL), and especially the impacts on women. This concludes that:

1. Women (and women’s NGOs and CSOs) need to actively and strategically organise at all levels to get gender issues around CPL on the table of current and forthcoming processes on regulatory responses;
2. The gendered impacts of CPL need to be seriously addressed within this process in relation to all four aspects of women’s  vulnerability (systemic discrimination related to land access, ownership, and control; systemic discrimination related to decision-making; relative income poverty; and general physical vulnerability); and
3. Gender issues must not be subsumed within the broader debate on CPL.