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18 Novembre 2021
Partenaire stratégique du Gabon dans la lutte pour la protection de l’environnement, la Norvège s’est engagée, en septembre 2019, à octroyer au pays forestier 150 millions $, dans le cadre de l’initiative pour la forêt de l’Afrique centrale.
En plus de la lutte contre la déforestation et la…
2 Novembre 2021
Une promesse essentielle de sauver et de restaurer les forêts de notre planète a été officiellement annoncée le deuxième jour du sommet des dirigeants mondiaux de la COP26. Cette promesse s'accompagne d'une longue liste d'engagements de la part d'acteurs des secteurs public et privé pour lutter…
31 Janvier 2019
The Scottish Land Commission has launched a new toolkit to provide practical advice on how landowners, land managers and communities can make better decisions on land use.
The protocol, which defines good practice for engagement over land use and management, is the first in a series of publications…
25 Octobre 2018
Scotland's parliament set land reform as one of its key priorities when it was established in 1997
EDINBURGH, Oct 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When the residents of Garbh Allt in the Scottish Highlands were offered the chance to buy their land from the wealthy family behind the brutal…
7 Novembre 2017
The Transparency International Secretariat (TI-S) in Berlin is seeking a consultant to research beneficial land ownership in Scotland, applying and testing a newly developed methodology.
BACKGROUND
Transparency International (TI) is the global civil society organisation leading the fight…
4 Septembre 2017
Scotland needs to go “further and faster” to enable community buyouts of land after it emerged fewer than one in seven local groups registering an interest in official schemes manage to secure ownership.
More than 20,000 hectares of land has been delivered into local hands through Community Right…
7 Août 2017
Application Closing Date - 13 Aug 2017
Job Start Date - 01 Sep, 2017
Duration - 1st September 2017 to 17th December 2017
Location - remote, attend workshop in Berlin
BACKGROUND
Transparency International (TI) is the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption.…
By: Ilona Amos
Date: February 28th 2016
Source: The Scotsman
FARMERS must change the way land is used in order to safeguard human health, food supplies and the environment, Scottish scientists have warned.
Despite differences in the physical challenges facing lowland and upland farmers across…
By: Andy Wightman
Date: March 17th 2016
Source: Scottishlegal.com
Legislation to transform how land is used and governed has been passed by the Scottish Parliament.
The Land Reform (Scotland) Bill will allow ministers to create a public register of those with a controlling interest in land to…
By Chris Arsenault
Source: Reuters
RIO DE JANEIRO, April 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - C enturies-old traditions that led to 430 people owning half of Scotland's privately held land are soon to become history as local communities seek to double their ownership in the nation known for its…
By: Karin Goodwin
Date: August 14th 2016
Source: Herald Scotland
THE SCOTTISH Government must stop giving “carte blanche” to rich industrialists who are buying up vast swathes of Scotland’s countryside and instead bring about more radical land reform that benefits local communities, according to…
Date: August 27th 2016
Source: FarmersUK
The Scottish farming sector is urging legislators to continue to consult with farmers and crofters as the Land Reform Act continues to take shape.
Farming union NFU Scotland wants a "functioning, healthy and vibrant" tenanted sector to be delivered.
It…