In the effort to address global sustainability challenges affecting people, prosperity, and planet, in 2015, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the global community to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). SDGs have recognized women’s land rights as opposed to its predecessor, MDGs. Of over 230 indicators, three are on women’s land rights and seven are generally on land rights.

Fernando Eguren, Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales

Ahmed Jaradat
Miembro Vía Campesina en Palestina e investigador del Alternative Information Center (AIC)

Traducción realizada por Antonio Parrales

By Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Chairman of the Advisory Board of CCSI, University Professor at Columbia University, and Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network

Land in Tanzania is a scarce resource without which life cannot be sustained (FAO, 2007), and it is “increasingly recognized as an important governance issue” around the global (Palmer et al., 2009, p.1).  Hundreds of millions of people including farmers, herders, forest dwellers and agro-industries all rely on land resources for their survival.

Farmers in Mali have gained critical new rights to their traditional land—and rural communities have gained much-needed economic stability—as a result of a historic new law.

This blog originally appeared on IISD

Farmers in Mali have gained critical new rights to their traditional land—and rural communities have gained much-needed economic stability—as a result of a historic new law.

Autor: Rui Daher

Fonte: https://www.cartacapital.com.br/economia/a-agricultura-familiar-esta-sob...

Caminhamos da burrice à sacanagem informativa, e os oligopólios-patrocinadores ganham força

Autor: Amélio Dall’Agnol

By Paul van der Molen, emeritus professor, ITC, University of Twente

By: Camilla Toulmin

Date: June, 20 2016

Source: IIED

Following a recent field visit to central Mali, Camilla Toulmin reports back on local struggles and new initiatives driving change.

By Diana Suhardiman and Emily Koo

Laos has conceded a significant amount of land to foreign investors, with estimates placing 15% of the country’s land under foreign control. Such land concessions, or the granting of rights to land, are positioned by the government as critical to economic growth and poverty reduction.