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.

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.

This blog was written by Barbara Fraser and published by EarthBeat at: https://www.ncronline.org/earthbeat/politics/indigenous-peoples-lives-depend-their-lands-threats-are-growing-worldwide

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Frente a la brutalidad del capital, las mujeres defienden la tierra y las comunidades en el interior de Marruecos. 

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.

Por Archana Prasad

Archana Prasad habla con Capire sobre el trabajo y la vida de las mujeres en la India y las luchas contra el poder corporativo y las políticas derechistas

What are the state-of-the-art and new approaches to land consolidation as part of integrated rural development strategies in North Africa and Near East? That was the main question around which several experts from Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and Turkey joined the FAO/ RVO roundtable discussion on land consolidation during the Second Arab Land Conference last February; a session which 110 participants attended – both in person and online.

• Magaly Belalcázar es una lideresa caqueteña que denuncia el avance de la deforestación en su departamento y las barreras que enfrentan las mujeres para tener sus propias tierras.
• Tras cuatro años del Acuerdo de Paz, pocos son los avances para redistribuir la tierra en el país.

• La lideresa se ha enfrentado sin temor a las multinacionales y a los grupos armados que han intentado adueñarse de los territorios donde viven campesinos e indígenas.
• Las comunidades confían en la labor de esta mujer que, arriesgando su vida, ha luchado en favor de los derechos de las comunidades vulnerables del municipio de Cumaribo en el departamento de Vichada.