Por Victoria Tauli-Corpuz

Por : Sofía Calil

La disputa por la tierra siempre ha puesto en tensión el poder económico y político. Actualmente, el derecho a la tierra no es concebido como un derecho humano fundamental en el ámbito internacional. Transitar por este camino es esencial para resolver problemas globales como la pobreza y el cambio climático con modelos y políticas que incluyan a todas las personas.

The passing of the Land Expropriation Without Compensation bill by the South African parliament with overwhelming support by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the radical Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has instigated uncertainties in the country's property rights and agricultural production.

It has been decades since Africa’s independence, and the peasants (rural land cultivators) are still suffering. How did Africa ignore the agricultural sector, after the peasants ushered the continent’s independence? Agriculture has become Africa’s “sunset” sector making the continent the most impoverished region, with over 70% rural poverty, heavy dependence on donor food aid valued at over US$ 51 million annually and high rates of unemployment.  At least Africa is now embarking on agrarian reforms after years of neo-colonialism.    

Second in a series of blog posts on the release of the 2019 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) at the ReSAKSS Annual Conference in Lomé, Togo, Nov. 11-13.

“This plot is not for sale” are the six words you will find, marked on a lot of properties and plots of land in Uganda. The words are meant to ward off quack land or property brokers and conmen. Most of the cases handled in courts in Uganda, and Kampala in particular, are fraud-related cases (like selling land while the true owners are away using counterfeit titles) and land transaction fraud (when fake land titles are obtained and sadly some officers in the land registry are involved).

Last week the World Cocoa Foundation, a membership organization of more than 100 cocoa companies, held its annual partnership meeting in Berlin, Germany. The aim of the meeting is for governments, cocoa companies and farmers to identify and tackle the sector’s largest sustainability challenges. A 90-minute session was devoted to the topic of land tenure. The prominence of the session, as well as the seniority of the presenters – the Head of Sustainable Sourcing for Hershey’s and the Deputy Director General of Cote d’Ivoire’s Land Agency among them – is a powerful signaling effect.

por Taran Volckhausen  Traducido por Soledad Agüero

In the last 15 years, Paraguay lost a greater share of its forest than almost any other country on Earth. While soy farming once drove deforestation in the east, the focus of Paraguay's forest loss has since moved west to the low-lying, thorn-forested Chaco, where cattle ranching has claimed over 3.7 million hectares (9 million acres) of forest for pastureland – an area about the size of the Netherlands – between 2001 and 2015.

Un camino para superar la pobreza rural

Para su tesis doctoral en la U. de Oxford, el ecólogo Felipe Roa Clavijo analizó los procesos agrarios en Colombia entre 2013 y 2016. Su investigación, que ganó el premio Alejandro Ángel Escobar, encontró que la solución para impulsar el desarrollo rural es generar métodos de producción que dialoguen con el medio ambiente.

Cascos azules y policías reprimieron el lunes a personas que se encontraban defendiendo el Jardín Botánico de Asunción, Paraguay. Balines de goma, heridos y detenidos fue el desenlace en un país que arde en llamas.

Por Claudia Colmán*

25 de octubre, 2019.- Desde mediados del 2019, miles de hectáreas fueron consumidas por el fuego en Paraguay, Bolivia y Brasil, afectando la biodiversidad de nuestra región.