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2 Janvier 2018
The recent series of devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean has reminded the world, once again, that natural disasters are not equal-opportunity destroyers. The economically marginalized and those lacking secure land and property rights are often disproportionately affected for at least three…
6 Septembre 2017
By Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Chairman of the Advisory Board of CCSI, University Professor at Columbia University, and Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Think of land use as the most important bridge between the SDGs. Farm land is the key to the survival of millions of…
2 Décembre 2016
In February of this year, a deportation officer of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency was indicted for extorting immigrants for cash and sexual favors. Arnaldo Echevarria promised two undocumented women “working papers” in exchange for sex, eventually impregnating…
11 Novembre 2016
By Nicholas Tagliarino, Land Portal Foundation
Looking for easy access to online information, data, news, and other materials on land? Want to learn more about indigenous and community land rights, women’s land rights, and forest tenure? Tired of information on land being inaccessible or…
1 Février 2016
By Amanda Richardson, Resource Equity
This blog was produced for the LEGEND Land Policy Bulletin. Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development (LEGEND) is a DFID programme that aims to improve land rights protection, knowledge and information, and the quality of private sector investment…
10 Janvier 2016
By Rachel Turner, Director, International Finance & Senior Land Champion, UK Department for International Development
This blog was produced for the LEGEND Land Policy Bulletin. Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development (LEGEND) is a DFID programme that aims to improve land rights…
24 Novembre 2014
Posted: 11/24/2014
Source: Huffington Post
By Tim Hanstad, President and CEO, Landesa
If we want to empower rural women in the developing world, there is no better first step than providing them with secure rights to land.
The reason is simple: developing world economies are agricultural…
6 Octobre 2014
Photo: CIAT/GeorginaSmith (Creative Commons)
Women play important roles in all smallholder farming systems. Advocates for women farmers often claim that “women produce 60-80% of the world’s food.” Occasionally, we are told that this statistic refers to food produced in developing countries, or…
Source: Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security
Written by Regina Laub and Susan Kaaria, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
It’s another typical day for Josephine Keremi. She’s up at sunrise, spends her morning scurrying around the house preparing meals, washing…
Source: WRI
Written by: Kathleen Buckingham
Last month, 40 nations agreed to restore 5 million hectares (12.4 million acres) of degraded lands and areas of low-quality bamboo production into productive, healthy bamboo forests at the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan’s (INBAR)…
Source: iied
Witten by:Thierry Berger
How can remote communities with little formal education hold investors to account and seek redress when their rights to land and resources are threatened? An IIED webinar examined the role of grievance mechanisms.
More than one billion people…
Source: Agro-Know
Between 14-15 of January 2015 we had two interesting people visiting Agro-Know: Laura Meggiolaro from Land Portal and Peter Mason from the Institute of Development Studies. The aim of their visit was to get to know the Agro-Know team better (this goes especially to Laura,…