24 January 2020
Global
Analysis reveals corruption more pervasive in countries where money influences political power
15 January 2020
Iran
Last week, our colleague Ghanimat Azhdari was one of the 176 people who lost their lives in a plane that crashed just outside of Tehran, Iran. While our interaction with Ghanimat was brief, our team had the pleasure and honour of working with Ghanimat at the First Arab Land Conference, which took place in Dubai in February of 2018.
9 December 2019
Global
Solving the climate crisis is possible, but vested economic interests and a lack of political will are in the way.
We can’t tackle the climate crisis without tackling corruption.
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The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the 2020 Executive Training on Sustainable Investments in Agriculture.
Recent blogs
13 January 2020
Africa
Angola
Da terra podem sair produtos para alimentar a indústria transformadora que pode vir a desenvolver-se nos próximos tempos, o que, a acontecer, poderá incentivar a produção agrícola, com ganhos para os camponeses e para a sociedade.
Os camponeses precisam entretanto de possuir documentos que atestem a titularidade dos espaços em que cultivam, sem receio de serem perturbados por indivíduos gananciosos que se querem apropriar de terras, não tendo em muitos casos vocação para as aproveitar convenientemente.
15 January 2020
Global
Today we are pleased to mark the official launch of PlaceFund, an independent US nonprofit organization focused on addressing issues of insecure property rights, unsustainable land use, and climate change. Built off a decade as the Property Rights initiative at Omidyar Network, PlaceFund will operate under the leadership of Peter Rabley and Amy Regas, who will be leaving Omidyar Network to run this venture, and they will take our shared commitment to property rights and geospatial technology into the new decade.
Recent news
24 January 2020
Global
Analysis reveals corruption more pervasive in countries where money influences political power
22 January 2020
Latin America and the Caribbean
Mexico
- More than 2,000 communal landholdings known as ejidos, and communities, have organized themselves to carry out sustainable management of forests in their territory.
21 January 2020
Latin America and the Caribbean
Cuba
We spoke to employees and workers about progress made in equal gender opportunities, as well as the greatest obstacles and challenges identified on the road to gender equality.
20 January 2020
New Zealand
In a ground-breaking asylum case, a UN human rights body has ruled that governments must take into account the human rights violations caused by the climate crisis when considering deportation of asylum seekers, said Amnesty International today.