The ‘tenure guidelines’ as a tool for democratising land and resource control in Latin America

Zoe W. Brent, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, Gonzalo Colque and Sergio Sauer

Third World Quarterly, 2018, vol. 39, issue 7, 1367-1385

Abstract: The current configuration of global land politics – who gets what land, how, how much, why and with what implications in urban and rural spaces in the Global South and North – brings disparate social groups, governments and social movements with different sectoral and class interests into the issue of natural resource politics. Governance instruments must be able to capture the ‘political moment’ marked by the increasing intersection of issues and state and social forces that mobilise around these. This paper looks at whether and how the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (also known as the TGs) passed in 2012 in the United Nations Committee for Food Security (CFS) can contribute to democratising resource politics today. This work puts forward some initial ideas about how systematic research into the TGs can be done more meaningfully.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2017.1399058

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