By Monica de Souza Louw, Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC), University of Cape Town
* This piece was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa
By Allan Cain, Development Workshop Angola
* This article was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa
Our food systems are in urgent need of transformation, as humanity faces one of our biggest challenges yet; feeding a future population of 10 billion people with safe and nutritious food while keeping a healthy planet. Our food system has the power to tip the scales and transform the future of our planet and humankind.
Por: Mariángeles Guerrero
Entrevista a Jeremías Chauque, referente de la organización campesina Desvío a la Raíz, de Santa Fe. ¿Qué sucede cuando el agronegocio se apropia de conceptos cómo "agroecología"? Reflexiona sobre la necesidad de retomar los orígenes de la agricultura campesina e indígena. La defensa del territorio y la vida rural, la salud de la tierra y las personas, alimentos sanos para todos y todas.
There is an underlying tension in the land rights movement that is rarely addressed head on, which is the perception that securing women’s land rights threatens community land rights. Community land rights are typically held by indigenous people, small-scale and subsistence farmers, pastoralists, herders and many other groups who are directly dependent on land for their livelihoods but whose land tenure is often the most precarious.
This session zoomed in on the local situation and challenges faced by grassroots communities and women in some low-Income countries. It provided an overview of support provided by Civil Society organizations (and governments) facilitating communities, women in particular, to step up the efforts to strengthen their land rights and to generate resilience in face of the climate and COVID-19 challenges they are facing.
More secure land tenure provides much better opportunities to face climate and COVID-19 challenges by investing in high biodiversity local food & income systems.
By Ben Cousins, Emeritus Professor, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape
* This article originally appeared in the The Conversation on 22 June 2021
Por Jorgelina Hiba
Organizaciones socioambientales de Argentina advierten a la ONU sobre los impactos del modelo agrícola en los derechos humanos. Insisten en que no asegura la provisión de alimentos baratos ni ayuda a enfrentar la crisis climática.
A partir del año 2000, en algunos ámbitos científicos y ecologistas se empieza a usar el término de Antropoceno para denominar la era geológica que vivimos.
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Malcolm Childress is co-director of Prindex and executive director of Global Land Alliance
Advancing women’s land rights is a priority for the international development agenda. Yet, there is no consensus on which rights should be monitored and reported. Three indicators of women’s property rights are widely used in the literature. Each captures a different aspect of women’s land rights, but a recent paper explores the extent to which these different rights are held by the same person, using data from six African countries.