Se recogen los principales resultados de la investigación sobre la tenencia de la tierra y sus implicaciones en la vida de las mujeres de dos organizaciones campesinas ubicadas en el Departamento de Antioquia – Colombia, las cuales se desenvuelven en un contexto de agricultura campesina, donde se presenta una tendencia a la feminización de la pequeña agricultura, debido a que los hombres emigran a otras actividades económicas y/o se vinculan a grupos armados.

¿Por qué si en las últimas tres décadas hay un progreso significativo en la incorporación de las medidas de género en la planificación del desarrollo rural en Colombia, las mujeres rurales siguen constituyéndose en una población marginal en el diseño e implementación de políticas públicas para el sector rural? Las causas son muchas, y entre estas deben destacarse las de tipo cultural. Precisamente sobre este aspecto enfatizan los contenidos desarrollados en 'Tierra y género: Dilemas y obstáculos en los procesos de negociación de la política de tierras en Colombia'.

En muchas comunidades andinas, se puede encontrar el acceso a la tierra para hombres y mujeres por las siguientes razones: la escasez de la tierra: la tierra del hombre no alcanza para la familia; y la mujer pide sus derechos en el acceso a la tierra, no solo el hombre tiene derechos. El uso de la tierra por lo general en las comunidades andinas es destinado a cultivos y ganadería.

Consuelo Castillo, mujer defensora de la tierra y de derechos humanos del Aguán, Honduras nos explica algunos aspectos que llevan a la migración forzada en su país: dificultades de acceso a la tierra, violencia de Estado y persecución de personas defensoras de derechos humanos, entre otros. Esta y muchas más historias de vida formarán parte del documental "Casa en Tierra Ajena" fue producido con Fondos CONARE por la UNED y la UCR.

Over the years, PINGOs Forum has been concerned with the future of Pastoral and HunterGatherer communities with regard to changing patterns of traditional land use and livelihoods options. The information gathered from the past studies have risen much concern on the side of PINGOs Forum that perhaps climate change may have a serious bearing in the land use patterns and livelihoods of Pastoralists and Hunter-gatherers. As a result of this concern, PINGOs Forum decided to embark on a study to observe changes that have occurred in land use patterns in recent years.

Tanzania is endowed with numerous resources including livestock. It is number three country in Africa in terms of livestock population after Ethiopia and Sudan. Currently, the country (Tanzania) has more than 22 million livestock, of which at least 95% are indigenous animals kept under traditional livelihood model known as indigenous pastoralism. At least 70% of Tanzanians earn their living through agro-pastoralism whereby around 40% of them entirely practices indigenous pastoralism.

The primary aim of this study is to investigate the size of the range lost to other forms of land uses. This will support the argument that it is time to reconsider the pastoralists sector as a legitimate mode of production in the country which, like other sectors, deserve due priority.

This fact finding is the fulfilment of PINGO’s Forum daily activities for inquiring the challenges facing pastoralists communities. In this fact finding, we will look at the impact of wildlife conservations in pastoralists areas. The Wildlife sector has become a threat to livestock sectors by which the wildlife sector is grabbing livestock grazing areas in the name of wild life conservation. In this fact finding we will look at the impact of established Randile Wildlife Management Area (RWMA) into the grazing area of Lolkisale village among other five villages forming the WMA.

This is a report of a fact-finding mission which took place in Tanga Region in June 2013. It aims to map the situation of pastoralists and the challenges they face in three districts of Tanga Region namely Handeni, Korogwe and Pangani.  There are similar challenges in Bagamoyo, Kilindi and Mchinga Districts which were not covered

This report springs from series of field visits.Its aim was, among others, to examine further the extent of human rights violations suffered by pastoralists in Kilombero and Rufiji valley during the evictions. It additionally makes recommendations including the need for lobbying against the State’s contempt of court orders

According to the research and follow ups made by Pingo’s Forum and LHRC indicated that, most victims were not trespassers to the land as contented by the Government. The pastoralists including Sukuma, Taturu, hunters and gatherers (Hadzabe) lawfully living within the Conservation Area resisted the government movement to evict them without paying adequate compensation.

This fact finding mission had been organised to investigate the challenges facing pastoralists in Rufiji District, the challenges which have been defined as the source of conflict in this district. Although pastoralists had arrived in Rufiji since 1990’s but they officially went there and other places in Coastal and in Lindi Regions after they had been evicted from Ihefu and Kilosa in 2006-9. The Government, through their operation, announced to prepare areas for pastoralists and also to set all necessary and potential services for them to survive In Lindi, Ruvuma and Pwani Regions.