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Survey: Participatory Land Use/Resource Planning Tools and Approaches - FAO Land and Water Division ()
31 Janvier 2017
This survey is part of a process started by the Land and Water Division (AGL) of the FAO to review needs, required tools and processes at various scales, to help countries and stakeholders meet emerging challenges and competition over resources and support sustainable use of land and water…
31 Janvier 2017
Date: 31 janvier 2017
Source: Foncier&développement
Par Comité technique « Foncier et développement »
Le CTFD a lancé, en 2015, un chantier de réflexion collective sur la question des communs, identifié par les membres du Comité comme une priorité de travail en matière de foncier. Suite à un…
27 Janvier 2017
By: Shikha Sreenivas
Date: 21 January 2017
Source: The Ladies Finger
It’s 2017 and formal ownership of land for women still seems to be a distant dream, with women owning less than 20 percent of land in the world. This means that their claim on land continues to rest on their identity as a…
25 Janvier 2017
By: Nikita Sud
Date: 17 January 2017
Source: The Conversation
Much of the global south – broadly comprising the continents of Asia, Africa, and Latin America – was shaped by colonialism. The so-called “great game” and the scrambles between Britain, Portugal, Belgium, France and other…
24 Janvier 2017
La agricultura aún representa un tercio de la economía mundial.
Cerca del 43 por ciento de la fuerza de trabajo agrícola en países en vías de desarrollo son mujeres, según el Programa de las Naciones Unidas (PNUD). En algunas partes de África y Asia, las mujeres representan más del 50 por ciento…
20 Janvier 2017
Date: 20 January 2017
Source: FAO
FAO Director-General calls for better water management and improved access for small farmers
Growing water scarcity is now one of the leading challenges for sustainable development, and that challenge is poised to intensify as the world's population…
19 Janvier 2017
Date: 19 January 2017
Source: The Guardian
Many believe the fight to combat climate change hinges on the aligned interests of capital and state. Give the Elon Musks of the world enough time and resources and they will innovate us out of impending climate catastrophe. Get the G20 in a room and they…
28 Juin 2016
By: Kathryn Bryant
Date: June 10th 2016
Source: FoodTank
Hilal Elver, the third person to hold the position of Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, is a law professor and globally distinguished fellow at UCLA Law School's Resnick Food Law and Policy Center.
She is the author of Peaceful…
28 Juin 2016
By: Melany Grout
Date: 28 June 2016
Source: News Deeply
More than 400 million women around the globe are farmers, but many have no rights to the land they till. Securing those rights is crucial if the world wants to reach its development goals, writes land tenure specialist Melany Grout.
A…
9 Avril 2015
Together with ICLEI President Park Wonsoon (Mayor of Seoul), ICLEI First Vice President James Nxumalo (Mayor of Durban) and ICLEI Secretary General Gino Van Begin, 100 mayors from around the world were onstage at today´s ICLEI World Congress 2015 Opening Plenary to adopt the Seoul Declaration. …
15 Avril 2014
PepsiCo has joined fellow beverage corporation the Coca-Cola Company in giving its official support to a set of global guidelines that protect the rights of poor and vulnerable people to land, livelihoods and food security.
Initiated by FAO and endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security in…
Time:
12:15pm-1:45pm (a light lunch will be served at 11:45am); Live webcast coming up at the scheduled time.
Presenter(s):
Mike Powell, IKM Emergent
Contact/RSVP:
RSVP to Simone Hill-Lee - s.hill-lee@cgiar.org
202-862-8107
Location:
International Food Policy Research Institute
2033 K Street…