ABOUT THE EVENT

Land Governance for Safeguarding Art, Culture, and Heritage Towards the Africa We Want

The 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) to the UNFCCC was originally scheduled to take place from 9-19 November 2020, in Glasgow, UK. On 28 May 2020, the COP Bureau decided that it would take place from 1-12 November 2021, in Glasgow, UK.

Over the past nine years, the project on Supporting Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT)has helped countries make political commitments towards the eradication of hunger, f

Although renewable energy has not been inherently positive for Indigenous Peoples,  there is a growing recognition among private and government actors that attaining the highest possible standards in respect of Indigenous Peoples’ rights is simply a matter of sound business principles and good practice. 

The Pan Africa Youth Land Governance Conference is has been organized by the  Youth Initiative for Land in Africa (YILAA),  in collaboration with Oxfam International,  African Union Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment of the African , International Land Coalition, Cadasta, Prindex, Global Land Alliance, Cicod

The 49th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will be held virtually from 11 to 14 October 2021.

The 49th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will be held virtually from 11 to 14 October 2021.

More than 476 million Indigenous Peoples, living in more than 90 countries across the world in seven socio-cultural regions, have developed unique territorial management practices that manage to generate food whilst preserving biodiversity. In a world where food security is becoming increasingly unstable , the way Indigenous Peoples grow and consume food holds answers to the world’s b

The webinar, Women’s Land Rights Assessments in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Liberia, and Ghana, organized by Landesa, will take place on Thursday, Sept. 30th, 2021, from 3 pm-4:30 East African Time, 8 am – 9:30 ET.

Since the pre-industrial period, human activities are estimated to have increased Earth’s global average temperature by about 1.1 degree Celsius (IPCC, 2021), a number that is currently increasing by 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade (GISTEMP Team, 2021).

With a focus on the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit, this is the first of a two-part dialogue series that brings together African and European leaders to discuss how to strengthen access to food  through climate-resilient and inclusive land governance.