As part of a scoping study titled Land Governance for Climate Resilience: A review and case studies from LAND-at-scale projects headed by Richard Sliuzas, Emeritus Professor, University of Twente, IOM explored how climate plays a role in the UN-led Saameynta Joint Programme in Somalia. In this context, climate change is increasingly recognized as a multiplier of insecurity and fragility, where climate-related sudden and slow-onset disasters are driving people to leave their land and migrate. While migrating allows people to find alternative livelihoods and enhance their climate resilience, it can also be associated with instances of maladaptation to climate change. As such, this case highlights durable solutions in climate-driven urban sprawl in Baidoa.  

As part of a scoping study titled Land Governance for Climate Resilience: A review and case studies from LAND-at-scale projects headed by Richard Sliuzas, Emeritus Professor, University of Twente, CTV explored the links between climate and land governance in the LAND-at-scale project “Scaling Community Legal Literacy, Land Rights Certification and Climate Resilience in Mozambique”. This case study focusses on experiences from the Búzi District, where Cyclone Idai (March 2019) showed the need for proactive interventions in the land sector aimed at preparing districts and local communities to face and plan for severe climatic phenomena and their impacts, but also the challenges at making this link explicit. 

¿Es realmente el cambio climático la causa de los conflictos y desplazamientos en el Sahel? Este reportaje explora la historia de los conflictos en la región, la coincidencia con los fenómenos climáticos y una amplia gama de factores institucionales para investigar esta cuestión. Se utilizan como ejemplo los casos de Malí, Burkina Faso y Somalia.

En este resumen de "Qué leer" , repasamos cuatro artículos recientes que se centran en cómo las comunidades rurales del Sur Global afrontan los desastres climáticos, incluyendo casos de Bangladesh, Colombia e India.

Con el telón de fondo de la guerra de Ucrania, esta edición de Qué leer repasa tres artículos que exploran diferentes conflictos territoriales menos conocidos, todos ellos en Asia.

Por:  Aimée Martínez Vega* 

Los intereses de las empresas mineras e hidroeléctricas, los paramilitares y las guerrillas disidentes, y el monocultivo de la coca son piezas de la violencia estructural que expulsa a las familias campesinas de sus tierras. Sin respuesta del Estado colombiano, la crisis humanitaria que ocurre en el municipio de Ituango, con 4 mil familias desplazadas en el último mes, expone la problemática.

Un indígena Mayagna observa una zona despalada por colonos en la Reserva de Bosawás. Foto: Carlos Herrera | Confidencial

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The debate about compensation of former white farmers in Zimbabwe continues to rage. The compensation agreement signed in July agreed a total amount of US$3.5 billion to pay for ‘improvements’ to the land that was expropriated. After 20 years of discussion, this was a major step forward. However, there seem to be multiple positions on the agreement and little consensus, along with much misunderstanding. However, some things are happening, and a joint resource mobilisation committee has been established with technical support from the World Bank and others.