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6 Septembre 2019
A conversation with Annie Signorelli, Project Manager for Renewable Energy and Human Rights at the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
This is the first interview in the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment's Climate Crisis, Global Land Use, and Human Rights Interview Series.
The…
31 Août 2019
Increasingly, governments and citizens in developing countries as well as development agencies are using information technology to improve governance, shape government-citizen relations, and reduce corruption. Despite this, we continue to be at the first phases of understanding how to best use…
27 Août 2019
Banks must stand with Indigenous and local communities in respecting their land rights
In 2018, every week more than three people were murdered, defending their land and environment from destructive industries like mining, logging and agribusiness. These killings represent the extreme end of a…
23 Août 2019
The climate crisis will reshape our relationships to land around the world. Journalist David Wallace-Wells warns that, once the planet warms 2°C above preindustrial levels — the target set by the Paris Agreement — “major cities in the equatorial band of the planet will become unlivable,” and 400…
12 Août 2019
Date: 12 août 2019
Source: DW
Par: Henri Fotso
L'achat massif de terres agricoles en Afrique par certaines puissances étrangères constitue une menace à la fois pour le développement et la sécurité alimentaire des régions concernées.
Logiquement, les Africains peuvent acquérir des terres en Afrique…
12 Août 2019
At the Land Portal, we are always trying to align with other open initiatives, and Wikidata is one of them. Wikidata was created as a central collaboratively edited knowledge base, adding semantics to the pieces that conforms it so computers can understand the relationships between these pieces.…
12 Août 2019
Knowing the "where" is important for so many companies and projects today. A business might want to know what path you take to work to send you targeted ads about coffee shops you pass. Augmented reality platforms might map out interior spaces of your home and offices to create a dancing critter in…
12 Août 2019
Pouring several colors of paint into a single bucket produces a gray pool of muck, not a shiny rainbow. So too with discussions of financing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Jumbling too many issues into the same debate leads to policy muddiness rather than practical breakthroughs.…
9 Août 2019
Documento publicado ontem alerta: é urgente mudar agricultura e mudar sistema alimentar. Leia também: Fiocruz consegue publicar estudo sobre drogas censurado pelo governo; exposição tentou usar lei da Cultura para promover marcas de comida
Por Raquel Torres
A CARNE, A TERRA E O CLIMA
O…
7 Août 2019
Date: 30 juillet 2019
Source: Farmlandgrab, RFI
Par: Igor Gauquelin
Spécialisée dans la dénonciation du pillage des ressources naturelles, une célèbre ONG basée au Royaume-Uni a publié, ce mardi 30 juillet, son rapport annuel sur les défenseurs des terres et de l'environnement tués l'an passé…
31 Juillet 2019
Depois do abandono, o regresso à terra e à agricultura, arriscamo-nos a dizer, é todo ele feito, seja por quem for, desprovido dos laços com o território e, como tal, desprovido dos laços de solidariedade e da vida comunitária outrora forjada nos campos.
O olhar de Catarina Eufémia, gravado…
22 Juillet 2019
I think the engagement with Illovo is a good start. … [the Project] has provided a platform for Illovo to engage with [us], which is not only a benefit to Illovo, but to the community. It opens up dialogue. In the future…, we’d love for Illovo to come to (us) and ask us to get involved.
—CSO Land…