Towards secure land rights for the poor and vulnerable This paper reviews recent policy and practice to secure access to land for poor people. Emphasis is on Africa, Latin America and Asia, while reference also is made to Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Despite the widely different observations from the various places, the paper identifies some general trends and challenges. These include: pressure on land is set to increase over future decades, given the impact of continued population growth, urbanisation, Arguments in favour of an enactment and implementation of a land tenure legislation in Lesotho In this note of food security and land tenure security in Lesotho, the authors present arguments in favour of the enactment and implementation of a legislation in Lesotho that will enhance land tenure security in the country. Some of the arguments include: Tenure insecurity is not the primary constraint on the contribution that farming can make to food security in Lesotho, but: womens access rights and widows tenure security are inadequate more secure access to additional land for a minority of better-resourced An analysis of institutions, conflicts and actors in water management, Vietnam any| This document takes a historical view of the relations between individual and collective actors in local water management in the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam. It identifies and analysis the genesis and operation of institutional arrangements, forms of organisation, rules, and standards and contracts regulating access to natural resources, in particular water and land, in a context of agrarian colonisation and progressive anchorage of the State. Emphasis is placed among other things on conflicts, why they Food sovereignty approach implies agrarian reform Through an analysis of the right to adequate food and the right to land, this civil society report, argued that achieving food sovereignty requires agrarian reform. The paper therefore calls for a new redistributive land reform that recognises indigenous territories and respects and balances the needs of diverse rural peoples. Highlighting territory as a more inclusive and important concept than just land, the authors emphasise that redistributive land reform in the context of food sovereignty must be designed Land tenure innovations required to secure sustainable rural development This collection of briefing papers summarises select papers presented at the workshop: 'Land Rights for African Development: From Knowledge to Action' held in November 2005. The workshop addressed key land tenure issues in Africa that influence food security, environmental sustainability, agricultural intensification, conflict, peace building and broader rural development. Issues covered by the 12 briefing papers contained in this collection include: the prevalence and importance of customary Created by the RSSMix News Wizard