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Curbing deforestation and securing land rights to create new responsible investment opportunities ()
5 November 2018
Commercial agriculture has driven land use changes and not only affected millions of hectares of forested land, but also farmers’ and local people’s land rights. Efforts to combat deforestation are at the forefront of the international aid agenda, and clarifying and securing land rights is…
26 October 2018
By focusing on four critical aspects of land rights, businesses can not only manage risks, but also do a great deal of global good while strengthening their bottom lines.
In 2004, the Newmont Mining Corporation hired me to investigate human rights accusations facing its gold mine operation in…
25 October 2018
With the inclusion of several land-related indicators in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), land data collection and monitoring has reached an unprecedented momentum. There is a palpable positive drive within both global and local civil society to contribute to the official process through…
25 October 2018
Date: 23 octobre 2018
Source: Grain.org, FIAN et al.
Alors qu’ING lance une campagne sur l’investissement durable (« c’est bien pour votre avenir et le mien »), un groupe d’ONG dénonce publiquement aujourd’hui ces financements à des entreprises d’huile de palme, telles que SOCFIN, qui vont à l’…
22 October 2018
Following last week’s meeting of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS), this piece reflects on a key CFS soft-law instrument. It is an edited extract from the article “International Soft-Law Instruments and Global Resource Governance: Reflections on the Voluntary Guidelines on the…
19 October 2018
Date: 17 octobre 2018
Source: Farmlandgrab, GRAIN
L’accaparement des terres est désormais considéré comme un crime contre l’humanité. Mais peu d’accapareurs finissent en prison. Bien au contraire, quand on cherche sur le site spécialisé farmlandgrab.org des informations sur les procès,…
19 October 2018
I have talked to women in at least 15 countries—in their homes, their gardens, their fields, their pastures, their universities, their community organizations, their government and executive offices, and their courtrooms. When asked about rural women’s land use or rights or ownership or livelihood…
18 October 2018
Por: Joan Carling
Soy una activista de derechos humanos que se ha pasado las últimas dos décadas de su vida luchando por la tierra y los derechos ambientales de los pueblos indígenas. He trabajado con organizaciones de base. He dirigido grandes organizaciones y movimientos indígenas.
Sin embargo…
17 October 2018
Until today, the world had no internationally comparable data on citizens’ perceptions of the security their property rights; no way of tracking how people evaluated the likelihood of their home or other land being taken from them.
As of today, that changes: Prindex unveils the first wave of our…
17 October 2018
Working on and with open data means that we are avid believers in the notion that pathways of information should be opened up, that we are building the proper technological infrastructures for information to be appropriately shared, thereby creating connections. Networks such as the International…
17 October 2018
A revolution is underway. In Latin America, it has likely crested. In Southeast Asia and West Africa, it is moving apace. In East Africa, it is at its most intense.
It is brewing most remarkably not in storied national capitals and megacities, but in the medium sized, second-tier cities, less…
15 October 2018
The world would be a pretty dull and hungry place if it weren’t for Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
Indigenous Peoples and local communities play a central role in feeding the world. They look after much of the world’s biodiversity, with at least 80% of planet’s biodiversity found in…