STOCKHOLM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous people under threat from companies seeking to develop their land for agriculture, mining and energy projects will be supported with money and practical help through a major global partnership backed by philanthropic and government funding.
The…
How can food companies stop contributing to deforestation? A panel of experts discussed solutions at a roundtable in New York
Half of the world’s rainforests have been felled in a century. If deforestation carries on at the same rate, they may be gone in 100 years. Food companies are a big part…
Corporations globally have made hundreds of commitments on deforestation. But what do these pledges really mean and why do scandals keep happening?
Whether it’s the destruction of rainforest shared by elephants and orangutans in Sumatra to produce palm oil; reports linking fast food giants to the…
The app will provide weekly satellite deforestation data in 17 tropical countries including Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A mobile app launched on Tuesday will allow indigenous people, forest managers and law enforcement officials in remote areas to monitor…
Date : 14 septembre 2017
Source : Foncier & Développement
L’objectif de ce colloque est de remettre sur l’établi quelques objets centraux des sciences sociales du politique (participation politique, militantisme, politiques publiques) à la lumière des mondes ruraux et dans une démarche…
Land Portal Foundation and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) launch thematic portfolio on Land & Food Security
Approximately 40 percent of the world’s land is used for crop production and pasture, but 800 million people remain food insecure and as many as 2 billion are…
Deadline: 01/10/2017
“Protecting our land for a prosperous future”
Demand for recognition and protection of indigenous and community land rights is at an all-time high. Around the world, ILC members are mobilizing to help communities claim and defend their customary land rights. To build on and…
More precious than gold: 10 years of indigenous land rights under the UN Declaration
en years ago today, the United Nations adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
After personally witnessing decades of injustice for the world’s Indigenous Peoples, I welcomed this global…
As land becomes less productive and people are forced to migrate to cities or abroad, there is greater likelihood of conflict over dwindling resources
ROME, Sept 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 1.3 billion people live on agricultural land that is deteriorating, putting them at risk of…
In low- and middle-income countries, the vast majority of land remains contested, leaving around 2.5 billion people living in rural and forest areas highly vulnerable to poverty, violence and environmental degradation.
Conflicts over land rights are increasing, as corporations involved in large-…
La Fundación Land Portal lanzó la Plataforma Tierra y Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) junto con Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), un esfuerzo con el que se busca que la información sobre los indicadores relacionados al tema tierra en los ODS esté ampliamente disponible.
La Plataforma…
Dashboard tracks land and the Sustainable Developing Goals (SDGs)
New York (September 6, 2017) — A dashboard focused on Land and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was launched today by the Land Portal Foundation and the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)[1] to make information related to the…