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Namati. New animated videos: Protecting Community Lands and Resources
Namati is thrilled to release four new videos that illustrate our approach to Community Land Protection.
The first video is an overview of Namati's approach, while the second and third videos describe the challenging work of making maps, resolving land conflicts, harmonizing boundaries with neighbors, drafting by-laws to ensure just and equitable governance, and electing diverse leadership to ensure transparent, sustainable management of natural resources. The fourth video shows how Namati empowers communities to negotiate with investors who come seeking land for business ventures.
Also available in Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
(Please contact communitylandprotection@namati.org if you would like to request another language.)
Overview:Protecting Community Lands and Resources
Mapping and Boundary Agreements
Making Rules for Land Governance
Protecting Land in Investment Negotiations
SCHOLARSHIP: Adapting Livestock Systems to Climate Change
Recordings of presentations and powerpoints of the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2015 now available online
The Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty organized by the World Bank Development Economic Research Group (DECRG) is a key global event where representatives from governments, civil society, academia, the development community, and the private sector come together annually to discuss new developments and progress on land policy and implementation.
Click on the link below to see the videos of the presentations:
CALL FOR PAPERS: CIALCA Conference on Agricultural Intensification of the Humid-Highland Systems of sub-Saharan Africa
Brazil's Women Leaders Meet to Discuss: The Intersection of Interests for Women’s Land Rights
Landesa - Wed, 12 Aug 2015 18:51 GMT
Author: By Patricia Chaves and Malcolm Childress
Scores of women leaders from across Brazil, including indigenous and Afro-Brazilian, rural and urban, from government and civil society, gathered in Recife, the capital of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco last week to call for concrete indicators focused on women’s economic empowerment to be among the measures of progress toward the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Costa Rica struggles with indigenous land rights
An indigenous rights issue has put Costa Rica’s much-vaunted human rights record to the test as the country struggles to protect members of the Bribrí and Teribe indigenous communities from non-indigenous people who have forcibly, and at times violently, removed them from indigenous ancestral lands.