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Land rights for cocoa farmers aren’t just good stewardship, they’re smart business

05 Noviembre 2019
Yuliya Panfil

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.

Agroecología, un modelo para rescatar el campo

31 Octubre 2019

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.

 

Why Women Farmers Deserve the Right to Identity

18 Octubre 2019
Shipra Deo

On the 2019 International Day of Rural Women, Landesa’s Shipra Deo explores how land rights are an essential element for overturning misperceptions about the role of women in society and on the farm.


In a workshop with a group of agronomists who work in agriculture extension in India, I ask the participants to draw the picture of a farmer with whom they work. All but one of them draw male figures.


El acuerdo de libre comercio con Europa se convierte en la última amenaza para el campo argentino

22 Julio 2019

 

Por Andrea Ana Gálvez

 

En Argentina 763.500 niños y niñas de entre 5 y 15 años realizan actividades productivas, según la encuesta EANNA. Ahora con el tratado de la Unión Europea y Mercosur, las condiciones laborales de los agricultores en Suramérica podrían incluso empeorar.

 

Women leaders protecting their land for the next generation

03 Mayo 2019

By Chris Hufstader


 


After an audacious land grab by a foreign company, indigenous women in a remote Cambodian village struggle to regain their farms and sacred sites.



Sol Preng remembers vividly the day in 2012 when bulldozers unexpectedly arrived on her family farm.


“The company came and cleared away our cashew trees right before the harvest,” she says. “I lost four hectares of land and all my cashew trees.”


USAID’s MAST mobile tech programs promote women’s empowerment in Tanzania and Zambia

21 Marzo 2019

By Deborah Espinosa and Patrick Gallagher, USAID’s Land Technology Solutions Program


 


Persistent and pervasive gender inequality is a global development challenge that constrains economic growth, educational opportunities, and health outcomes. It jeopardizes food security and undermines poverty reduction strategies. The world over, some formal and many informal laws and customs operate to hinder women’s empowerment and thus their full potential as agents of economic and social change.


Learnings on gender from the Congo Basin

08 Marzo 2019
Anouska Perram

Improving how we work for – and with – indigenous and local women in their communities

 

As a human rights organisation, gender justice is a fundamental principle of our work, and we have long been conscious of, and sought to address, the barriers to effective participation in decision-making by women, as well as the other human rights violations they may face on account of their gender.

DDHH de campesinos: importante acuerdo de las Naciones Unidas

30 Enero 2019

Por: Jorge Meza Robayo*


Representante de la FAO en Paraguay


 


La Asamblea de las Naciones Unidas dio el visto bueno a la Declaración sobre los derechos de los campesinos y otras personas que trabajan en las zonas rurales.


Este documento que reconoce la importancia de esta población, su aporte al desarrollo y su contribución para garantizar el derecho a una alimentación adecuada y al trabajo digno.