Dans ce numéro de Quoi lire, nous passons en revue quatre articles récents portant sur la manière dont les communautés rurales du Sud font face aux catastrophes climatiques, y compris des cas du Bangladesh, de la Colombie et de l'Inde.
Il y a un an, grâce à une bourse LEDE de Réseau de journalisme de solutions (Solutions Journalism Network ) et en collaboration avec le Land Portal, j'ai lancé un projet visant à trouver des histoires de réponses aux dommages causés à la terre et à l'environnement. Pendant cette période, j'ai affirmé que les communautés et les personnes du monde entier travaillent à la protection et à la guérison de l'environnement, même si ces histoires parviennent à peine aux grands médias.
Terra Firma and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) are pleased to announce the launch of a new LAND-at-scale project: Scaling Community Land Rights Certification in Municipal Areas of Mozambique. The project started implementation this month (February 2024) in the rural hinterlands of four municipalities in Manica, Sofala and Zambezia provinces.
During the Conference for Land Policy in Africa (CLPA) which took place in Addis Ababa in November 2023, LAND-at-scale organised the side-event ''Climate-Resilient Land Use Planning as a Tool for Addressing Land Degradation''. The LAND-at-scale (LAS) project partners and their government constituencies from Mozambique, Rwanda and Uganda participated in person. The set-up of the session was dynamic with each country first ‘pitching’ how land use planning processes were important in their LAS interventions, and then the government representatives adding to that a perspective from government. In each of the countries, the LAS partners consisting of NGOs and UN organizations, work closely with national or district land use planning officers of the government in carrying out project activities.
As part of a scoping study titled Land Governance for Climate Resilience: A review and case studies from LAND-at-scale projects headed by Richard Sliuzas, Emeritus Professor, University of Twente, IOM explored how climate plays a role in the UN-led Saameynta Joint Programme in Somalia. In this context, climate change is increasingly recognized as a multiplier of insecurity and fragility, where climate-related sudden and slow-onset disasters are driving people to leave their land and migrate. While migrating allows people to find alternative livelihoods and enhance their climate resilience, it can also be associated with instances of maladaptation to climate change. As such, this case highlights durable solutions in climate-driven urban sprawl in Baidoa.
As part of a scoping study titled Land Governance for Climate Resilience: A review and case studies from LAND-at-scale projects headed by Richard Sliuzas, Emeritus Professor, University of Twente, GLTN dove into the links between climate and land governance in the ‘’Scaling up community-based land registration and land use planning on customary land in Uganda’’ project. This case study highlights experiences from the community-based wetland management planning approach in Butaleja, Uganda, focusing on how the approach is addressing land governance issues and contributing to community climate resilience.
As part of a scoping study titled Land Governance for Climate Resilience: A review and case studies from LAND-at-scale projects headed by Richard Sliuzas, Emeritus Professor, University of Twente, CTV explored the links between climate and land governance in the LAND-at-scale project “Scaling Community Legal Literacy, Land Rights Certification and Climate Resilience in Mozambique”. This case study focusses on experiences from the Búzi District, where Cyclone Idai (March 2019) showed the need for proactive interventions in the land sector aimed at preparing districts and local communities to face and plan for severe climatic phenomena and their impacts, but also the challenges at making this link explicit.
What I learned about land rights from people who don't work in land rights
Ce webinaire, le quatrième de la série Advancing Land-based Investment Governance (ALIGN), a eu lieu le 9 février 2024, sous le titre " Quand les marchés du carbone tournent mal : comment garantir l'accès aux recours en cas de violation du droit foncier ". Le webinaire a attiré 562 participants et a réuni des experts politiques et des leaders communautaires. Le webinaire a été organisé conjointement par la Fondation Land Portal, l'Institut international pour l'environnement et le développement (IIED), Namati et le Columbia Center on Sustainable Development (CCSI).
A Contribution by Jes Weigelt, Moritz Hauer & Frederike Klümper (TMG Research)
Le changement climatique est-il vraiment le moteur des conflits et des déplacements dans le Sahel ? Cette étude explore l'histoire des conflits dans la région, le chevauchement avec les événements climatiques et un large éventail de facteurs institutionnels pour répondre à cette question. Les cas du Mali, du Burkina Faso et de la Somalie sont utilisés comme exemples.
Dans un exposé TED de 2009, visionné plus de 35 millions de fois, la romancière nigériane Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie parle du danger d'une histoire unique et des simplifications qu'elle favorise. Ses observations sont tout à fait pertinentes dans le cas du Sahel. Les médias et la sphère politique internationale présentent la région du Sahel comme une zone de conflit, de sécheresse, de famine et de déplacement irréductibles, mais ne fournissent pas d'explications significatives.