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Webinar Series: The Effect of COVID-19 on Indigenous People’s Organizations and Forest Communities

2 September 2020
10 September 2020
17 September 2020

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Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
forestry
forest conservation
indigenous lands
community land rights
indigenous land rights
indigenous tenure
indigenous peoples
local communities

Organized as in partnership with the Ford Foundation, the Land Portal Foundation and the Tenure Facility, a series of three webinars will feature indigenous and non-indigenous leaders to a virtual roundtable style discussion to discuss both the key effects that COVID-19 is generating in their communities as well as possible solutions and the way forward.

Organizers: 
Ford Foundation
Land Portal Foundation
The Tenure Facility

Facing the double burden of climate change and conflict

4 August 2020
Authors: 
Catherine-Lune Grayson
Western Africa
Mali
Iraq
Global
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
development
climate change
desertification
pastoral lands
rangelands
livestock
grazing
conflicts
land conflicts
grazing land rights
tenure insecurity
pastoralists

From Mali to Iraq, people in conflict zones are proving especially vulnerable to climate extremes

An estimated 100,000 people died and livestock were decimated when a long drought hit West Africa in the 1970s.

Isa, a 61-year-old community leader from northern Mali, recalled: “At that time, we only had to search for food. We could move freely with our animals. Now, we can’t even search for food. We are forced to stay in place or move to cities because of the insecurity.”

Latin America’s Indigenous and Afro-descendant women face a 'triple pandemic'

4 August 2020
Authors: 
Omaira Bolanos
Latin America and the Caribbean
Land & Gender
COVID-19
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
rights in divorce
sustainable development
land grabbing
land rights
property
property rights
marital property rights
indigenous peoples
local communities
women

Many Latin American countries recognize the property rights of indigenous and Afro-descendant people, but those laws do little to protect women’s access to land

Latin America’s indigenous and Afro-descendant communities are facing not just one pandemic, but three. Women bear the brunt of them all, which threatens communities’ very survival.

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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone - Context and Land Governance

Land is an essential source of livelihood for a majority of Sierra Leoneans. Most of Sierra Leone’s population lives in rural areas and it’s GDP is largely based on agriculture. The three main livelihood activities surveyed in the 2015 population and housing census are crop farming, animal husbandry and fishery, which depend largely on access to and ownership of land. Smallholders mostly cultivate rice, cassava, cocoa, coffee, cashew, groundnut, palm oil, vegetables and other fruit trees.

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South Africa

South Africa - Context and Land Governance

Despite the achievement of Constitutional democracy in 1994, 'the land question' is at the heart of South Africa's struggles to overcome the cumulative legacies of nearly 350 years of white minority rule. The emotive quality of land policies evokes painful legacies fuelled by disappointments with the official land reform programme ushered in by the new Constitution of 1996. There is broad agreement that land reform programmes have not fulfilled their aims to significantly redistribute land and productive agrarian capacity, strengthen land tenure for the majority, and settle the restitution claims of victims of land dispossession.

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Issues

Land in post-conflict settings

Land in Post-Conflict Settings recounted

Post-conflict situations remain strained for years and can easily relapse into violence during the first two decades. During this social, political, and economic transition phase, post-conflict countries are especially fragile and vulnerable. Increasingly acknowledged as a key driver or root cause for conflict, land is as much a critical relapse factor as it is a bottleneck to recovery [1]. In the aftermath of war, access to and control of land and natural resources often remains a sensitive issue for years which may precipitate tensions and challenge stability. At the same time, resolving land-related issues is significant to achieve sustainable and durable peace. Yet, it is just one item on a long list of issues that need to be addressed in post-conflict periods next to reconciliation and transitional justice processes, establishing security and a functioning state, economic recovery, and the rebuilding of social cohesion [2].

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