• Contact: Ariane de Bremond
  • Address: c/o University of Bern Centre for Development and Environment Mittelstrasse 43 3012 Bern Switerland
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GLP

Global Land Programme

Member since: 2021

Working towards these commitments

Ensure equitable land distribution and public investment that supports small-scale farming systems, including through redistributive agrarian reforms that counter excessive land concentration, provide for secure and equitable use and control of land, and allocate appropriate land to landless rural producers and urban residents, whilst supporting smallholders as investors and producers, such as through cooperative and partnership business models.
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Strong Small-Scale Farming Systems

Recognize and protect the diverse tenure and production systems upon which people’s livelihoods depend, including the communal and customary tenure systems of smallholders, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, fisher folks, and holders of overlapping, shifting and periodic rights to land and other natural resources, even when these are not recognized by law, and whilst also acknowledging that the well-being of resource-users may be affected by changes beyond the boundaries of the land to which they have tenure rights.
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Diverse Tenure Systems

Enable the role of local land users in territorial and ecosystem management, recognizing that sustainable development and the stewardship of ecosystems are best achieved through participatory decision-making and management at the territorial-level, empowering local land users and their communities with the authority, means and incentives to carry out this responsibility.
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Locally-managed ecosystems

Ensure that processes of decision-making over land are inclusive, so that policies, laws, procedures and decisions concerning land adequately reflect the rights, needs and aspirations of individuals and communities who will be affected by them. This requires the empowerment of those who otherwise would face limitations in representing their interests, particularly through support to land users' and other civil society organizations that are best able to inform, mobilize and legitimately represent marginalized land users, and their participation in multi-stakeholder platforms for policy dialogue.
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Inclusive decision-making

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
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Transparent and accessible information

Mission

As a global network of over 1000 researcher-members, guided by a Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) and coordinated by the International Programme Office (IPO), GLP’s mission is to enable land systems science (LSS) for sustainable development of coupled human-environmental systems. This mission entails bridging scientific innovation (specialization) with societal relevance (transformation) and employs place-based re-search (contextualization) to feed synthesis-understandings of the patterns and processes of global change (generalization).

Objectives

GLP provides scientific expertise in land systems and sustainable development at local, national, and global levels.
Concretely, the three goals of the International Programme Office of GLP are to: 1) build and secure GLP as a global network; 2) consolidate its position as a flagship project of the Future Earth sustainability science research network and advance its power for impact in wider policy and development contexts; and 3) ad-vance the capacity of Land System Science (LSS) to generate research for sustainable development of hu-man-environmental systems. Correspondingly, our three objectives are to:

1. Grow and maintain a vibrant network of scientists enabling them to work together, and with new as-semblages of actors including civil society, government, and private sector towards sustainable devel-opment of land systems (‘manage the IPO and GLP bodies’).
2. Link scientific advancement to societal relevance through mobilization of existing knowledge and syn-thesis products via science policy interface (SPI) activities, i.e. ‘10 things about land’ initiative (‘bring GLP science to bear on policy debates by communicating our science’)
3. Develop and innovate co-designed methods and products to connect contextual understandings to regional or global trends, drivers, and consequences; (‘innovate and generate transformational knowledge through experimentation to demonstrate how Land System Science is Sustainability Science)

Constituencies

GLP works with land system scientists and their research organisations worldwide, NGOs and institutions in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

  • Contact: Ariane de Bremond
  • Address: c/o University of Bern Centre for Development and Environment Mittelstrasse 43 3012 Bern Switerland
  • Email: admin@glp.earth
  • Web: glp.earth/
  • Members:
    GLP