By Peter Sangeyon, Gender and Land Champion, WOLTS Project Tanzania
From 1995 to 2005 I was the village chairman, and I was a ward councillor for ten years after that. I was very pleased when the community selected me to be a WOLTS gender and land champion.
Depuis qu'elle a suivi la formation WOLTS, Sindooi, championne du genre et de la terre, soutient activement les droits de succession des femmes et des veuves dans sa communauté.
Odgerel décrit les changements qu'il opère pour lutter contre la dégradation des terres dans sa communauté d'éleveurs depuis qu'il est devenu un champion du genre et de la terre.
Ce dossier Quoi lire examine l'élevage dans les systèmes pastoraux et présente des recherches récentes qui examinent la relation entre les moyens de subsistance pastoraux et le changement climatique mondial.
There is an underlying tension in the land rights movement that is rarely addressed head on, which is the perception that securing women’s land rights threatens community land rights. Community land rights are typically held by indigenous people, small-scale and subsistence farmers, pastoralists, herders and many other groups who are directly dependent on land for their livelihoods but whose land tenure is often the most precarious.
The Rangelands Initiative of the International Land Coalition (ILC) is drawing attention to rangelands and drylands at the highest levels, in order to find solutions to the challenges faced by local populations that live and work there, and to encourage appropriate investment including in securing land rights and good governance, building resilience to drought and other shocks or stresses, and increasing rangeland productivity.
This week in Geneva, the Human Rights Council is expected to take a position on the follow-up to a draft Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other Persons Working in Rural Areas. Five years after the start of the negotiations, we are at a turning point.
