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15 October 2020
How will you feel when you are discriminated against and denied privileges that other people enjoy? What will be your reaction? Have you asked yourself why indigenous peoples around the world feel they are denied their rights and left behind in development agenda? To answer all this, I had to…
15 October 2020
A new blog series featuring voices from East and West Africa will take a closer look at a set of principles we think strengthens women’s land rights. Here, IIED’s Philippine Sutz tells us what to expect…
6 October 2020
How to get tree planting — and growing — right
This article was originally published by Forests News
Africa has the potential to restore 700 million hectares of degraded and deforested land, but experts caution that to transform lands and livelihoods over the long term, tree planting…
17 September 2020
Por Hermenegildo Langa
Em África, muitas preocupações em torno da exploração de terra são semelhantes, sobretudo a necessidade de evitar conflitos assegurando a posse segura pelas comunidades. O Ruanda é um dos exemplos a seguir, mas há outras experiências, boas e más, sobre as quais vale a pena…
15 September 2020
Since last year, 35,000 people in Uganda’s Kiryandongo district were forced from their lands to make way for large-scale farming, including at gunpoint and by a sugar firm with international backing. Community members continue to be intimidated and tortured during a COVID-19 lockdown.
The sugar…
11 September 2020
The global conservation community now faces the added challenge of Covid-19 on top of a longstanding set of complex conservation, sustainability, and development challenges. In the wake of this pandemic, return to business as usual is not a viable option. The existing systems and structures upon…
17 June 2020
Por Abahlali baseMjondolo*
Tradução: Ítalo Piva
No capitalismo racial imposto pelo colonialismo, os detentores do poder monopolizaram seu controle sobre a terra
Havia um grave problema de fome na África do Sul antes do isolamento da covid-19, resultado da longa história de despossessão colonial,…
22 May 2020
Foto: Adam Reeder/flickr
Para refletir sobre as diferentes desigualdades nos espaços urbanos, a Land Portal Foundation inicia uma série de entrevistas realizadas com acadêmicos/acadêmicas e defensores/defensoras de direitos humanos e territoriais. As entrevistas oferecem retratos de como esta…
20 May 2020
The ongoing pandemic and the formal and informal responses to its spread have very direct impacts on the food and nutrition security of people in all parts of the world. Strong concerns have been voiced that the global health crisis could turn into a global food crisis. Not only are food chains…
13 May 2020
Foto: Nuno Ibra Remane/Flickr
A falta de acesso à posse de terra urbana é uma das possíveis causas da expansão e formação das chamadas favelas, presentes nas grandes metrópoles do Sul Global. As favelas geralmente estão localizadas em zonas de risco, tais como em morros ou nas beiras de canais…
12 May 2020
This blog recapitulates the interventions made by the panelists of a recently held GODAN Action webinar on “Empowering Women for Open Data Mapping in Agriculture: Implications for Land Rights and the SDGs in Africa”, Victor Sunday, Dr. Toyin Ojo, Nathalie Sidibe and Uchechi Shirley Anaduaka.
1)…
21 April 2020
Platforms struggle to support communities to secure their land rights and develop agriculture
When the new coronavirus (COVID-19) arrived Africa in January 2020, governments announced draconian measures to contain its spread, including restricting movement and association.
This has led to the…