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Land Matters: How Securing Community Land Rights Can Slow Climate Change and Accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals

Land Matters: How Securing Community Land Rights Can Slow Climate Change and Accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals

25 January 2019
Authors: 
Mr. Peter Veit
Bolivia
Brazil
Colombia
Global
Access to Land & Tenure Security
Land Use, Management & Investment
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
community land rights
extractive industries
food security
formal tenure
gender equity in access to land
Global Land Indicator Initiative
indigenous land rights
indigenous lands
indigenous peoples
indigenous tenure
land acquisitions
land rights
land use
poverty
sustainable development
sustainable land use

There is a strong and compelling environment and development case to be made for securing indigenous and community lands. Securing collective land rights offers a low-cost, high-reward investment for developing country governments and their partners to meet national development objectives and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Securing community lands is also a cost-effective climate mitigation measure for countries when compared to other carbon capture and storage approaches.

Living the best of both worlds

22 January 2019
Canada
Global
Access to Land & Tenure Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
advocacy
agriculture
climate change
environment
fisheries
food security
sustainable development

Imagine a world where sustainable development is no longer an oxymoron, one where the Earth is economically and ecologically stable and food and energy needs are met. It’s a place where habitats are preserved and pollution is limited.

Don’t worry – you’re not alone if you can’t.

But according to a recent study published in The Ecological Society of America, this vision is not just imaginable, but it’s attainable. And by 2050 no less.

Five Facts You Need to Know About the India Land & Development Conference (ILDC)

15 January 2019
Authors: 
Mr. Pranab Choudhury
India
Access to Land & Tenure Security
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
advocacy
agrarian reform
indigenous land rights
land administration
land governance
open data
women

Of late, land has increasingly been figuring into the development sector, for both positive and negative reasons.

Indian Farmers Call for Action Over Agricultural Crisis

12 December 2018
Authors: 
Ms. Jayshree Bajoria
India
Access to Land & Tenure Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
food security
land acquisitions
land economics
women

Thousands of farmers from across India will march to the parliament in New Delhi on November 30, to demand action on the deepening agrarian crisis that has left a trail of heavy debts and suicide in its wake.

Until now, the climate change debate in Central Africa has focused on the forest sector. CIFOR/Axel Fassio

From commitments to action to fight climate change in Central Africa

4 December 2018
Authors: 
Ahtziri Gonzalez
Central African Republic
Land Use, Management & Investment
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
environment
forest land
land environment
land investments
land use planning

The 2015 U.N. climate change conference was a historic moment in which the world agreed to limit global warming to 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Through the Paris Agreement, parties consented to a long-term pathway of climate-resilient development.

When disasters displace people, land records and geospatial data are key to protect property rights and build resilience

12 November 2018
Authors: 
Anna Wellenstein
Global
Access to Land & Tenure Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
capital value (land)
geographical information systems
land rights
land tenure systems
land use
land use planning
land valuation
natural disasters
open data
property rights
sustainable development
urban planning

Droughts, floods, hurricanes, and other disasters displaced over 24 million people in 2016. When people leave their homes behind, land records offer critical protection of their property rights. This is crucial, as land and homes are usually

Is Our Planet Dying?

12 October 2018
Authors: 
Miss Anna Kuci
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
natural resources management
sustainable development

Heat waves, floods, hurricanes, starvation these are the ‘rewards’ Mother Earth has for years of neglect, overuse, misuse, and abuse. The earth’s natural resources support life. Trees, soil, natural gas, coal, fresh water, and oil- life wouldn’t exist without oxygen, without food, medicine, and power. However, if natural catastrophes are anything to go by, we have gone way past the red natural these resources, creating a life-sucking ecological debt.

What will be our fate if natural resources run dry?

As water bank runs dry, Uganda greens hills to soak up rain

13 September 2018
Authors: 
Mr. Fredrick Mugira
Uganda
Access to Land & Tenure Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
deforestation
environment
property
water rights

In the village of Katebe, Ugandan schoolchildren have little choice but to drink from the same water supply as animals.

During the dry season from June to August, Kyakatarihwa dam is the only source of water for people and livestock alike in this remote part of southwest Uganda's Mbarara district.

"We have no (other) option," said Arinaitwe Kenneth, headteacher of Katebe Primary School, which has 420 pupils.

Progress in Land Indicators

30 July 2018
Authors: 
Mr. Oumar Sylla
Everlyne Nairesiae
Global
Access to Land & Tenure Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
desertification
gender equity in access to land
land degradation
land governance
land tenure
security of tenure (land)
sustainable development
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
water management

This July is the first time the United Nations will review the progress made towards meeting Sustainable Development Goal 15, which is about Life on Land. Each goal will be reviewed about every 4 years until 2030.

The reviews will be based on the 10 indicators countries agreed on, that assess change in each country over time. Two important developments relating to the indicator on land degradation neutrality (15.3.1) have occurred, since its adoption in 2015.

Land Rights: A Crucial Strategy for Combatting Climate Change

29 January 2018
Authors: 
Alfred Brownell
Devan Braun
Global
Access to Land & Tenure Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
development
forest land
indigenous land rights
indigenous lands
indigenous peoples
land rights
sustainable development

Land is connected to many of our most pressing global issues. For example, a significant body of empirical evidence supports the view that strengthening indigenous and local communities’ legal rights to their land is a crucial strategy for avoiding deforestation and mitigating climate change.

Land Protection Key to Success of Sustainable Development Goals

Africa
Access to Land & Tenure Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
desertification
land management
sustainable land management

BONN, Germany, 30 Dec 2016 — According to Dr. Richard Byron-Cox, his admiration for the late President of Burkina Faso, Captain Thomas Sankara, strengthens his role as the Action Program Alignment and Capacity Building Officer at the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) based in Germany.

As one of the founding fathers of the concept of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), he believes this can help countries suffering from floods, droughts, etc. be self-sufficient.

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