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By Justine Uvuza, senior gender and land tenure specialist at Landesa
Property and citizenship are in many ways what define us, and they interact in fascinating ways.
To understand how property ownership strengthens people’s ability to enjoy full citizenship – and here we are talking about civic…
Date: 28 octobre 2016
Source: Visions-Carto.net
Par Agnès Stienne, Artiste, cartographe
L’appétence pour l’appropriation de terres — concentration, accaparement, accumulation — n’est pas un phénomène nouveau : il est la marque de la richesse et du pouvoir. Monarques, princes, aristocrates,…
Por Claudia Korol
El acceso a la tierra es uno de los problemas más graves que enfrentan las mujeres rurales en América Latina y en el mundo, y está en la base de muchos otros problemas “invisibles” para la sociedad. Sus consecuencias abarcan a todas las mujeres y en general, a la humanidad…
By David Kaimowitz, Director, Natural Resources and Climate Change, the Ford Foundation
At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris last year, the world’s governments agreed to work to keep global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius. The agreement sought to address a…
By Gina Cosentino, Social Development Specialist, World Bank and Climate Investment Funds
Everything old is new again, at least when it comes to searching for workable and proven solutions to addressing climate change. Indigenous peoples have developed, over time, innovative climate-smart…
Today Land Portal is launching a new qualitative dataset and infographic which shows how national laws measure up against the international standards on expropriation, compensation, and resettlement as established in Section 16 of the UN Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure…
Keynote speaker: Professor Hanoch Dagan (Tel-Aviv University):
Professor Dagan dedicated keynote address to Professor Dr. Van Der Walt, South African professor and renowned property law scholar, who passed away in November 2016
Professor Dagan's speech discussed the bridges between expropriation…
SESSION 4: FACTORS OF COMPENSATION; VALUE OF LAND
Dr Shai Stern (Dr. Shai Stern (Professor of Law, Bar-Ilan University)
Restoring Justice in Expropriation Law
There is general agreement on the concept of fair or just market value for compensation, yet this concept is based on different ideas of…
The Rethinking Expropriation Law initiative hosted a Conference on Compensation for Expropriation in Cape Town, South Africa on December 7-9, 2016. The final session of the Conference took place on December 9 and aimed at discussing the development of a protocol on fair compensation.
For the final…
Despite the fact that land is intrinsically fixed in space, a new transnational market for land is born. Indeed, data from the Land Matrix suggests that in the last 16 years 77.5 million hectares of land – a surface slightly smaller than the entire Mozambique – have been transferred to…
Everyone was energised by the trek of 29 women from 22 African countries up and down Kilimanjaro this month to raise awareness of women’s land rights, producing a charter of 15 demands on how to protect and enhance these rights. A powerful statement and great mobilising action.
Such practical…
Date: 21 décembre 2016
Source: Conso-Globe
Par Camille Tourneboeuf
Le ‘land grabbing’, ou l’accaparement des terres fertiles, au profit de puissances étrangères, continue de par le monde. Surtout en Afrique.
L’achat ou la location de terres étrangères par les États s’accélère depuis la…