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26 Septiembre 2018
Global land rights group releases roadmap for agri-business investments
New digital platform provides step-by-step instructions for implementing international standards that recognize and protect land rights.
SEATTLE – The global land rights group, Landesa, with support from the Department for…
25 Septiembre 2018
NAIROBI ( Landscape News) – Degradation of natural resources reduces employment opportunities for at least 11 million young Africans entering the job market every year, and soil and nutrient depletion on croplands cost the continent 3 percent of its gross domestic product. Climate change magnifies…
22 Septiembre 2018
Pastoralists manage land in way that keeps carbon in soil instead of releasing climate-changing emissions, experts say
TURIN, Italy - Nomadic herders across Africa can work in tandem with farmers and produce sustainable food without damaging the land or harming the planet, experts and…
20 Septiembre 2018
MONTREAL — Forest areas managed by indigenous and local communities store nearly 300 billion metric tons of carbon — five times more than previously estimated — yet failure for these communities to have their rights formally recognized may lead forest-dependent people unable to protect carbon…
19 Septiembre 2018
One similarity between the three Asian economies, namely Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, is their success in becoming high-income countries after World War II while maintaining a more equal distribution of income. Currently the Gini Index of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are in the low 0.30s, while…
17 Septiembre 2018
A conferência Terra e Pobreza apresenta as mais recentes pesquisas e inovações em políticas e boas práticas sobre governança fundiária ao redor do mundo. Esta conferência tornou-se um dos maiores eventos internacionais sobre governança fundiária, atraindo mais de 1.500 participantes de governos,…
14 Septiembre 2018
Knowing where deforestation is happening is critical for efforts aimed at stopping or slowing it. Major breakthroughs toward this goal have been made over the previous few years, with NGOs harnessing the power of satellites to monitor and identify canopy loss in forests around the world. Now, a new…
12 Septiembre 2018
NAIROBI (Landscapes News) – Rangelands cover almost half the world’s land surface. Consisting mainly of grasses, and plants, they have often been considered barren lands that should be converted to agriculture.
In reality, they are neither fit for cultivation, nor empty or sterile: they have been…
12 Septiembre 2018
TrustLaw is the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s global pro bono legal programme. We connect high-impact NGOs and social enterprises working to create social and environmental change with the best law firms and corporate legal teams to provide them with free legal assistance. We produce groundbreaking…
10 Septiembre 2018
As global warming continues to outpace the tepid international response, a range of environmentalists are raising their collective voice to demand full rights and recognition for those long associated with land stewardship connected to climate mitigation: indigenous peoples.
On Monday, September 10…
9 Septiembre 2018
O Programa do Golfo Arábico para o Desenvolvimento (AGFUND em inglês) anuncia o primeiro objetivo dos SDG 2030 “Fim da pobreza em todas as suas formas em todos os lugares” como tema do Prêmio AGFUND 2018. O programa convida as Nações Unidas, organizações internacionais e regionais, ministérios…
5 Septiembre 2018
NAIROBI (Landscape News) – Land tenure rights are widely recognized as being central to advancing sustainable development goals, but they are only one part of the picture.
As it happens, tenure rights to trees are entangled with, but different from, those to land, meaning both must be acknowledged…