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Route de l’apprentissage consacrée aux "approches et outils innovants visant à sécuriser les droits fonciers des femmes"
La Route de l’apprentissage consacrée aux « approches et outils innovants visant à sécuriser les droits fonciers des femmes » a été organisée au Rwanda et au Burundi en février 2014 par l’initiative relative aux droits fonciers des femmes de la Coalition internationale pour l’accès à la terre (ILC) et Procasur.
http://www.landcoalition.org/sites/default/files/r-wlr-securing-women-la...
Collective land rights for sustainable, prosperous Indonesia
Source: The Jakarta Post
Witten by: Nurdiana Darus and William Sabandar
The government inaugurated on Sept. 1 last year the National Program for the Protection and Recognition of Indigenous Peoples (PPMHA) through the country’s Reducing Emissions for Deforestation and Degradation Plus (REDD+) program.
Inaugural session panel outlines challenges, charts way forward
FAO Case Study: "Gender opportunities and constraints in inclusive agribusiness models. The case study of Unifrutti in Mindanao, Philippines"
FAO has developed a programme of work entitled “Promoting gender-equitable and inclusive primary agriculture investments that contribute to enhance food security, reduce poverty and strengthen the livelihoods of poor rural women and men”, which aims to:
• generate knowledge, raise awareness and inform policy-making processes about the gender- differentiated implications of land-related investments;
Peru: Indigenous Communities Demand Land Rights
The oil company that exploited the their lands “has been an uninvited and messy guest for the past four decades,” declared indigenous communities.
Peruvian Indigenous communities from the northern region of Loreto filed a lawsuit Thursday to order the regional government to comply with the indigenous right to land.
ILC Latin America third regional conference
New Alliance: Framework for Responsible Land-Based Agricultural Investments
Technical experts from G7 donors (UK, US, Germany, France), AU Land Policy Initiative and FAO have compiled a due diligence framework for land related investments based on existing standards, guidance and good practice, to support responsible investments under the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition.
AWARDS: IDRC Doctoral Research Awards
IDRC offers these awards twice a year in April and November to Canadians, permanent residents of Canada, and citizens of developing countries pursuing doctoral studies at a Canadian university. These awards are intended for field research in one or more developing countries. Candidates must conduct their research in areas corresponding to IDRC's research priorities.
Stopping land grabbing: ‘Only genuine villages will be regularised’
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah has said that the lease of 70 villages of district Malir has been cancelled on legal grounds but a fresh survey will be conducted to regularise the genuine villages. “This exercise has been done to get rid of land grabbers who had grabbed government land in the name of villages,” he said.