14 December 2020
Participatory model may help resolve conflicts in developing countries worldwide
20 November 2020
Indonesia’s environment ministry has issued a new regulation allowing protected forest areas to be cleared for a “food estate” program.
The program is aimed at boosting domestic crop supplies, but critics say it prioritizes the interests of agribusiness at the expense of small farmers and the
26 October 2020
Communities being able to participate on an equal basis in land governance is key to food security and inclusive development. How can securing land rights pave the way for responsible investments and what can we learn from experiences with the palm oil industry? To answer these questions we turn to
13 October 2020
A rule allowing subsistence farmers to burn small plots of land has been reinserted into the Job Creation Act passed last week.
Other provisions affecting the plantation industry have also been adjusted in a new version of the law that appeared this week.
Multiple versions of a sweeping
12 October 2020
Land is essential to our lives – we grow food on it and rely on it for economic growth and development. In sub-Saharan Africa approximately 83% of people depend directly on land for survival.
7 October 2020
A call for evidence-based approaches and community engagement to increase tree cover
This article was originally published by Landscape News.
13 August 2020
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock is looking at encouraging famers in the Central Province to grow cocoa in the province and boost the local economy.
With the increased demand for cocoa beans, Minister for Agriculture and Livestock, John Simon recently announced a proposed plan to
13 August 2020
Mientras las tierras malhabidas siguen impunes, las pequeñas familias productoras pierden sus territorios, según estudios. Caaguazú perdió 16.214 hectáreas y Canindeyú 30.000 hectáreas.
Both Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo Experiencing High Numbers of Agricultural Fires
27 June 2020
Fires have spread across the majority of the landscape in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Fires of this number are not uncommon at this time of year in Africa. During the agricultural season of clearing field and planting new ones, farmers set fire to the remains of old crop
29 May 2020
A Vietnamese agribusiness company in eastern Cambodia has illegally cleared old-growth forests, wetlands and spiritual sites on land that it pledged to return to indigenous communities. The land move reneges on promises the company, Hoang Anh Gia Lai, made in a mediation process with the World Bank
6 May 2020
Fitch Ratings-Hong Kong-06 May 2020: China's new policy granting greater autonomy to provincial-level governments over land conversions and farmland acquisitions will assist fiscal and economic performance in the medium to long term, via increased governance efficiency of land management on the
17 March 2020
The Institute of Development Studies is gathering short stories that capture the diverse experiences of those who have interacted with the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition Programme (GODAN) and GODAN Action.
If you’ve engaged with GODAN over the last few years – as a network member