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By Dr. Gregory Myers, Lead Land Administration Specialist at the World Bank
“Congratulations, today your baby is four years old,” Iris Krebber, DFID/UK recently emailed me. Iris was not referring to a child, but rather the Voluntary Guidelines for the Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forest (VGGT),…
By: Marianne Gadeberg
Date: June 3 2016
Source: CGIAR
Interest in investing in sustainability is on the rise. With the Paris Climate Agreement and the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals last year, the political demand to further sustainability across sectors and scales is stronger…
By: Marianne Gadeberg
Date: June 20 2016
Source: CGIARThe ‘Global Landscape Forum – the Investment Case’ convened in London earlier this month with the aim of mitigating climate change and reducing poverty through investments in landscape restoration. Events like this one are desperately needed…
This blog was written as a contribution to the Mekong Regional Land Forum that took place from June 21-23 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Duncan Pruett was a keynote speaker at this event.
By Duncan Pruett, Program Policy Advisor for Oxfam in Myanmar
I was asked to reflect on foreign investments in…
By Geoffrey Payne, Geoffrey Payne and Associates
To say we are living in interesting times is a gross understatement. Increasing populations, globalisation and climate change have increased demand for land, while market forces have raised prices to levels unaffordable to many. Urbanisation has…
Date: 09 juillet 2016
Source: L'Obs
Par Niels Planel, Consultant
L'"accaparement des terres" : c’est ainsi que beaucoup désignent un phénomène mal connu, dont on s’accorde à faire remonter l’émergence à la crise alimentaire mondiale de 2007-2008 : la flambée des prix dans le monde et les "…
Land Portal: improving land governance and securing land rights for landless and vulnerable people ()
By Imma Subirats, Senior Knowledge and Information Management Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and…
Source: NCD Alliance
Public space interventions have the potential to contribute to progress across numerous Agenda 2030 goals and targets, not only SDG11 on Sustainable Cities. Kristie Daniel explores the opportunities public spaces present for different SDGs, and summarises the case for…
Blog by: Alyssa Fischer, WRI
Date: October 14, 2016
Source: WRI
Next week’s Habitat III conference will see more than 45,000 leaders, decision makers and urban experts sign into force the New Urban Agenda(NUA) – the outcome declaration of the global UN summit – and set a course for 20 years of…
By Marie Becher and Jill Powis, Peace Brigades International
More land and environmental activists are being killed than ever before. We can't forget their work when planning for the future.
The phrase "leaving no one behind" is used no fewer than six times in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable…
By: Katie Reytar, Peter Veit and Nicholas Tagliarino - August 09, 2016
Today is International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, observed every year on August 9, the anniversary of the first meeting of theUN Working Group on Indigenous Populations in 1994. It is a good time to reflect on…
By Oumar Sylla, Director of the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)
On behalf of UN-Habitat, particularly the Land and the Global Land Tool Network Unit, which also serves as the GLTN Secretariat, I was pleased to present some key messages at the third Preparatory Committee Meeting of Habitat III.…