Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Blog Series
Date: 20 mai 2016
Source: Greenpeace
Nous avons fait campagne pendant dix ans, et le résultat est enfin là. Le 9 mai dernier, les principaux négociants de soja, un groupe d’ONG dont Greenpeace et le gouvernement brésilien ont prolongé un accord qui met un terme à la déforestation à grande échelle au profit des plantations de soja dans l’Amazonie brésilienne. C’est une belle victoire !
By Sarah Logan and Mallory Baxter
African cities are rapidly expanding as the number of urban residents rises due to rural-urban migration and population growth. Ad hoc urban expansion contributes to an increase in unplanned settlements, urban poverty and inequality, and constraints on new residents, who are attempting to secure access to adequate housing, property rights, employment, and basic services.
By Sarah Weber & Kathleen Buckingham, World Resources Institute
By Nicholas Tagliarino, Research Analyst at the World Resources Institute
By Diana Suhardiman and Emily Koo
Laos has conceded a significant amount of land to foreign investors, with estimates placing 15% of the country’s land under foreign control. Such land concessions, or the granting of rights to land, are positioned by the government as critical to economic growth and poverty reduction.
Forests are the lifeline and cultural heritage of at least 100 million indigenous peoples in Asia
The world’s remaining forests, the planet’s biodiversity, and rivers are found in indigenous peoples’ territories. However, rampant large-scale development projects without regard to the environment and the indigenous peoples inhabiting these areas are threatening to wipe out populations and extract resources.
By Jolyne Sanjak
When land tenure experts like me write about the connection between land tenure and food security, we often focus on how secure rights to land tend to increase smallholder farmers’ productivity-enhancing investments. As studies in China, Thailand, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Ghana, among other countries, document—farmers with security of tenure are more likely to invest their finances and labor in improvements to their land.