Urgent action required to challenge impunity of perpetrators, protect citizens and address root causes of environmental crisis
Empoderamiento legal
The strengthening of the capacity of people to exercise their rights.
Urgent action required to challenge impunity of perpetrators, protect citizens and address root causes of environmental crisis
Indigenous farmer in the municipality of Sayaxché, department of Petén, Guatemala, viewing the stunted corn crop on his land bordering an oil palm plantation.
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Most analyses of violence in Darfur ignore the local dimension of the crisis, focusing instead on the region’s economic and political marginalization and climatic variability.
How to manage China’s farmland for sustainable development has become a crucial issue of concern for both policy-makers and the wider public. Rural land acquisition has been widely recognized as a complex process of managing conflicts among stakeholders, which has been a major constraint to equitable development and good governance.
Friends of the Earth’s report, ‘What’s your pension funding?
"For millions of people living in the world’s poorest countries, access to land is a matter not of wealth, but of survival, identity and belonging.
This briefing paper makes the case for proactive business engagement in respecting land rights and ensuring legal, fair and inclusive practices on land use, access to natural resources and equitable development opportunities.
In line with the conventional view that customary land rights impede agricultural development, the traditional tenure system in Nigeria has been perceived to obstruct the achievement of efficient development and agricultural transformation. This led to the Land Use Act (LUA) of 1978.
Food First Backgrounder, Spring 2014, Vol. 20, No. 1
Introduction: Land, Race and the Agrarian Crisis