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How Farmers in Africa are Restoring Degraded Lands and Enhancing Resilience

27 October 2016
James A. Harmon Conference Center
10 G Street, NE (Suite 800)
Washington, DC
United States

Join us for a live discussion with World Vision’s Tony Rinaudo, WRI’s Robert Winterbottom and other experts on Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration – a key strategy for restoring degraded lands, achieving food security, and enriching rural areas.

Throughout the developing world, huge tracts of farmland, grazing lands and forests have become degraded to the point they are barely producti

The Economic Case for Landscape Restoration in Latin America

28 October 2016
Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor,
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC
United States

Join us for an engaging discussion around the economic benefits of restoring productivity to deforested and degraded lands in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Latin America and the Caribbean account for over 20 percent of the world’s degraded lands, with 300 million hectares of degraded forests and 350 million hectares now classified as deforested—an area almost double the size of Mexi

III Congresso Iber-oamericano de Solo Urbano

23 August 2017 - 25 August 2017
Curitiba, Brasil
Curitiba
Brazil

Nos dias 23,24 e 25 de agosto do presente ano, levar-se-á a cabo o TERCEIRO CONGRESSO IBEROAMERICANO DE SOLO URBANO na cidade de Curitiba, Brasil, com o tema “O solo na nova agenda urbana”, organizado de maneira conjunta pelo Colégio Mexiquence AC, a Universidade Federal do Paraná, a Universidade Pontifícia Católica do Paraná e a Universidade Positivo.

Partnership for Action Conference: Effective land governance and management in Africa

15 August 2017 - 17 August 2017
Pretoria
South Africa

The GLTN’s Urban CSO Cluster of UN-Habitat and Habitat for Humanity’s Solid Ground campaign are convening a multi-stakeholder regional conference on land governance and management and kindly invite you to attend the upcoming conference titled Partnership for Action: Improving Land Governance and Management in Africa.

KOSMOS-Workshop: Post-conflict scenarios of land use in Colombia

25 June 2019
HU Geography Department -- Erwin Schrödinger-Zentrum, Raum 0'310
Rudower Chaussee 26
Berlin
Germany

Given the uncertainties generated after the peace agreements in Colombia, we believe that understanding and studying the most relevant transformation agents and potential socio-ecological pathways into the future is a key step to develop pro-active management strategies.

CBA14: From local solutions to global action

18 May 2020 - 21 May 2020
Bangkok
Thailand

The 14th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA14) will take place in Bangkok, Thailand, on 18-21 May, 2020.

CBA14 in May 2020 will bring together practitioners, grassroots representatives, local and national government planners, policymakers and donors to share their experiences and drive forward efforts to achieve a climate-resilient future.  

International Institute for Environment and Development

Webinar - Land Consolidation Legislation: FAO Legal Guide and Its Application at the Country Level

18 June 2020
Online

Land consolidation is a well-proven land management instrument, which has traditionally been used for agricultural development with a main objective of reducing land fragmentation and increasing holding and farm sizes. Some European countries have a land consolidation tradition that goes back a hundred years or more. It is also widespread in particular in countries in Asia but also in Africa.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
International Federation of Surveyors (FIG)
Land Portal Foundation

ONLINE workshop "Formalizing the Informal to Protect Residents in Informal Settlements"

17 June 2020

As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries requested their citizen to ‘stay at home’ to stay safe. Not for everyone home is actually a safe place. Housing conditions and density of informal settlements often do not allow residents to follow basic hygienic measures or to keep the minimum social distance to reduce spreading the virus.

International Federation of Surveyors (FIG)
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe