Efforts to ensure sustainable peace can help to support access to safe, reliable and affordable energy in the long term. Energy access in turn can help to reduce conflict due to specific food security and livelihood benefits, such as the ability to safely cook food and carry out income-generating activities. An in-depth analysis of context-specific conflict drivers is a necessary first step in working towards sustainable peace.

This Policy Brief is a result of a series of national and regional stakeholder consultations and a policy write shop on the establishment and maintenance of Open Source Seed Systems that ensure inclusivity of farmers and enhance freedom to develop, access, and use plant genetic materials. The brief is also based on results from research on seed networks and policy and legislative frameworks in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. The stakeholders recommend the following policy options for successful establishment and implementation of Open Source Seed Systems.

Land is a key economic resource inextricably linked to access to, use of and control over other economic and productive resources. Recognition of this, and the increasing stress on land from the world’s growing population and changing climate, has driven demand for strengthening tenure security for all. This has created the need for a core set of land indicators that have national application and global comparability, which culminated in the inclusion of indicators 1.4.2 and 5.a.1 in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda.

 Reflexiones del informe anual sobre acceso a la tierra y territorio en sudamérica 2018[1]
 
Oscar Bazoberry Chali, sociólogo, coordinador general Instituto para el Desarrollo Rural de Sudamérica - IPDRS
Ruth Bautista Durán, socióloga, investigadora Instituto para el Desarrollo Rural de Sudamérica - IPDRS
 

Las semillas bajo ataque: expoliación de la naturaleza y de los pueblos en el contexto latinoamericano de colonialidad y dependencia
Jana Caroline Farias Melo*