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Sharing land governance knowledge within the Dutch government through LAND-at-scale

06 Julio 2021
Maaike van den Berg

The main objective of the LAND-at-scale program is to directly strengthen essential land governance components for men, women and youth that have the potential to contribute to structural, just, sustainable and inclusive change at scale. An ambitious objective, that cannot be achieved in isolation. Alignment is, therefore, a key factor in all LAND-at-scale activities - be it at project level for our country interventions or through our collaborative approach to knowledge management.

Securing Land Rights for Female Farmers in India

27 Mayo 2021

By: Thais Bessa, gender advisor at Integrated Land and Resource Governance (ILRG). 


Purnima Kora is an ambitious farmer. She owns two small parcels of land that she purchased with her husband’s support and years of savings she earned from farming PepsiCo potatoes and rice, as well as by leveraging micro loans through a women’s self-help group. She also leases another half-acre plot to farm potatoes.  


The advantages and implications of "soft law" instruments like the VGGT

24 Mayo 2021
abdeslam arktout

Instruments like the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) are "voluntary", i.e., legally non-binding. These instruments are intended to have a direct influence on the governance of the tenure practice of states by providing an internationally recognized set of principles, and by simultaneously encouraging good practices.

¿Qué pasa en Colombia? La voz del Coordinador Nacional Agrario

10 Mayo 2021

 

Por Ernesto Roa 

Presidente del Coordinador Nacional Agrario (CNA)  

El presidente del Coordinador Nacional Agrario relata en esta columna para Tierra Viva la brutal represión del gobierno de Iván Duque al pueblo movilizado, las condiciones para un posible diálogo y las reivindicaciones campesinas retomadas por el Paro Nacional: desmilitarización de los territorios, desmonte del paramilitarismo, freno a las fumigaciones con glifosato y reforma agraria para combatir el narcotráfico y alcanzar la soberanía alimentaria.