How can we reconcile the hazards of social interaction in a COVID-19 world with the importance of community participation to the successful, and sustainable, implementation of on-going land projects?
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted all aspects of life and ways of working. From large cities to…
Land is essential to our lives – we grow food on it and rely on it for economic growth and development. In sub-Saharan Africa approximately 83% of people depend directly on land for survival.
However, approximately two-thirds of the continent’s productive land is degraded – it has lost its…
The Dutch LAND-at-scale program was launched in March last year and since then, two rounds for land intervention ideas have been released. The program seeks ideas that contribute to improving land governance in developing countries, and that ultimately support better food and nutrition security,…
LAND-at-scale is a Dutch government program that contributes to improving land governance. The program supports better food and nutrition security, economic development, peace and stability in developing countries. It also contributes to sustainable incomes and social justice. In October last year…
Handing out title deeds is not enough
Builders are busy outside Louisa Qangiso’s house in Khayelitsha, a township on the outskirts of Cape Town. The 49-year-old is putting up eight studio flats in her backyard that she will rent out for 3,000 rand ($177) per month. This could almost triple the…
Maior estrutura viva do planeta é analisada em novo relatório da Convenção-Quadro das Nações Unidas sobre a Mudança do Clima; projeto com meta de facilitar absorção de 250 milhões de toneladas de carbono está em curso há 13 anos.
Milhões de hectares de terra restaurados, novos empregos e avanço…
September 1, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- At least 12 people were killed and 10 others wounded in ethnic-based clashes over forest ownership rights in Ale special district in South Nations Nationalities and Peoples of Ethiopia, an official has said.
“Gunmen killed 12 persons and wounded several others in…
August 31, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- The Addis Ababa City Administration has faced allegations that it permitted land grabbing and illegally transferred condominium houses in a politically motivated decision.
In a briefing on Monday, Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice (ECSJ) said thousands of square…
Cerca de 20 mil pessoas ficaram desalojadas na sequência da inundação que atinge a Etiópia, avançou o departamento de prevenção de desastres de Afar, no nordeste do país.
“A inundação causou danos nas propriedades e matou várias dezenas de animais", indicou o vice-chefe do departamento de…
The Deputy Mayor of Addis Ababa City Administration, Takele Uma (Eng.), has told city officials to take immediate action in granting farmers, who possess farming lands in the city’s surrounding area, with a legally binding land title deed.
The order comes after a discussion forum on activities to…
Over 3.5 billion tree seedlings have so far been planted under this year’s Green Legacy campaign.
This was disclosed at a campaign where media leaders and professionals planted tree seedlings at Gulele Botanical Garden on Tuesday.
Press Secretariat Head Nigusu Tilahun said on the occasion that…
A adesão ao Fundo de Adaptação (Adaptation Fund) busca aumentar a resiliência de comunidades rurais em tempos de degradação de ecossistemas e aumento da escassez de água
A Organização das Nações Unidas para Agricultura e Alimentação (FAO) anunciou nesta sexta-feira (3) que se tornou parceira da…