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South Africa faces numerous challenges when it comes to providing fair governance of land, fisheries and forests. Among these are the need to remedy the racially skewed resource regime; to secure the rights of poor people to natural resources on which their livelihoods depend; and create accessible…
By Ruth Hall, Associate Professor, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, and Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Four years ago voluntary guidelines on the governance of land and land tenure were…
By Colleen O'Holleran
Over the past few decades there has been growing awareness of the need to strengthen land rights for women and men across the African continent. As a result, governments have come under growing pressure to improve laws, policies and institutions to guarantee Africa’s…
By Nicholas K. Tagliarino, World Resources Institute
Land and property rights are key to myriad development goals, from hunger to women's economic empowerment. So why are they so hard to obtain?
“Let us wake up, humankind…Let us build societies that are able to coexist in a dignified way, in…
Por Jonathan Báez y Pablo Iturralde[i]
Los Panama Papers indican que el sector rural también está afectado por mecanismos vinculados a paraísos fiscales, en la nueva lista publicada el 9 de mayo, se pueden encontrar algunos ejemplos de grandes agroindustriales vinculados a floricultoras, bananeras…
Date: 13 mai 2016
Source: WWF
Pour célébrer la journée internationale de la forêt, le 21 mars dernier, le WWF a lancé son micro-site forestsolutions.panda.org, une plateforme dédiée à la protection des écosystèmes forestiers. Les internautes peuvent y trouver des informations sur les services…
By Lorenzo Cotula, Principal Researcher for the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
The commodity slump has cooled the global land rush. But land rights are still under pressure, requiring action at local to global levels.
The commodity price hikes of 2007-08 and…
By Nicholas Tagliarino, Celine Salcedo-La Viña and Sam Szoke-Burke
Indigenous representatives from around the world are convening in New York this week for the 15th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The Forum is the UN’s central coordinating and advisory body on…
By: Sara Gustafson
Date: May 26th 2016
Source: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The effects of climate change vary from region to region, but according to a new study from the World Bank, the majority of the global impact stemming from climate change will come through…
Por José Graziano da Silva , Director general de la Organización de Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
La paz sostenible está íntimamente ligada al desarrollo sostenible, a los alimentos y a su producción
Este martes, José Graziano da Silva se ha convertido en…
By Nicholas Tagliarino, World Resources Institute
June 13th, 2016
In almost all countries, governments have legal authority to acquire land for public needs, including roads, schools and other public infrastructure, as long as they compensate affected landholders. This process is commonly…
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),…