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International Congress - Global Peasants ́ Rights
Según indicaciones de la FAO, más de 795 millones de personas en el mundo sufren de hambre, sobre todo en los países en vías de desarrollo. Esta situación no mejora a pesar de que la producción agrícola esté aumentando. El hambre es un problema de la distribución y del acceso a una alimentación adecuada.
Enhancing Open Access to Knowledge, Information & Data in the Mekong: Open Data Festival and Regional Capacity-building Workshop
Over the last 30 years, the nation states in the Mekong region have taken steps to reform their land policy to facilitate the efforts to end poverty, create wealth and grow their economies. To do this most effectively in this modern age requires the leveraging of technical innovations and data.
Rethinking Expropriation Law: Compensation for Expropriation
On December 7-9, 2016, a group of scholars will meet in Cape Town, South Africa to discuss compensation for expropriation. The objective of the Conference is to debate what is "fair" compensation and contribute to the development of a new protocol on fair compensation.
IIED webinar: Using community by-laws to secure customary land rights in Kenya
Join us for a webinar on 16 November to discuss how communities can use by-laws to secure their land rights.
Indigenous and rural communities that use customary land tenure systems are among the least likely populations to have legal recognition of their rights to their lands and natural resources.
III Continental Summit of Indigenous Communication of Abya Yala to be presented at UNPFII 2016
The III Continental Summit of Indigenous Communication of Abya Yala will be officially presented at this year’s session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Webinar Wednesday: Land Tenure in Kosovo
Join USAID to learn more about land tenure and property rights country by country, starting with Kosovo.
International symposium on land consolidation and land readjustment
Rally 2016: The National Land Conservation Conference
Rally is the exciting annual gathering of nearly 2,000 inspired and passionate land conservation practitioners from the US, Canada, South America and beyond, who are dedicated to conserving cherished places in local communities.
The Economic Case for Landscape Restoration in Latin America
Join us for an engaging discussion around the economic benefits of restoring productivity to deforested and degraded lands in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Latin America and the Caribbean account for over 20 percent of the world’s degraded lands, with 300 million hectares of degraded forests and 350 million hectares now classified as deforested—an area almost double the size of Mexi
How Farmers in Africa are Restoring Degraded Lands and Enhancing Resilience
Join us for a live discussion with World Vision’s Tony Rinaudo, WRI’s Robert Winterbottom and other experts on Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration – a key strategy for restoring degraded lands, achieving food security, and enriching rural areas.
Throughout the developing world, huge tracts of farmland, grazing lands and forests have become degraded to the point they are barely producti
2016 Aglaw Colloquium
The Institute of Law, Politics and Development is pleased to announce the 2016 AgLaw Colloquium which will be held on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 October, 2016.
