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Romy leads the development of Land Portal's Country and Thematic portfolios, as well as the curation and ingestion of land-related publications and statistical datasets.
She is a communications specialist and policy advisor/project manager with more than 20 years of experience. She has worked previously with Embrapa (Brazil), CIFOR, FAO, GIZ, amongst other organizations on topics such as community forest management, payments for environmental services and agriculture & food security policy.
For the last 10 years her work has focused on land governance while as a project manager. In 2015 she supported the Global Donor Working Group on Land to advocate and secure SDG indicator 1.4.2 on land tenure security.
Romy holds a BA in Journalism from the Federal University of Pará, Brazil, and an Master of Science in Environmental Governance from the University of Freiburg, Germany.
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Displaying 71 - 80 of 123Instituto de Política International - UFV Madrid
El Instituto de Política Internacional fue creado en septiembre de 2014 con el objetivo de dotar a la universidad de una plataforma desde la que desarrollar investigaciones en el ámbito de las Relaciones Internacionales, coincidiendo con los primeros pasos del Grado en Relaciones Internacionales.
Customary Law and Institutions: Protecting or Undermining Community Land Rights in Southern Africa
Report from the online discussion held on the Land Portal between 28 June and 9 July 2021.
The online discussion explored the different pespectives around customary law and institutions in Southern Africa and the roles they play in governing land.
2021 Conference on Land Policy in Africa (CLPA-2021)
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Land Governance for Safeguarding Art, Culture, and Heritage Towards the Africa We Want
The root of inequality? Customary Tenure and Women’s Rights to Land in West Africa
This is the report of a webinar held by Land Portal on 24th March 2021.
In much of West Africa, women are considered breadwinners responsible to provide food for the family. However, women do not only own less land but also face manifold obstacles in accessing land through transfers, inheritance, or lease. The tenure security of this group has been threatened by large-scale land deals, state appropriation in the name of the public interest, and the often-discriminating practices of customary tenure systems.
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Land Policy in Africa
The Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Land Policy in Africa have been prepared by the African Land Policy Centre (ALPC) and capture the highlights of the Conference.
Islands of land information: navigating between gaps and opportunities in the Arab region
Early this year, the Arab region saw a series of webinars and meetings about the status of land-related information and data.
Opinion: Failing food systems — why rural farmers migrate
From Europe to the U.S., migration issues are highly politicized, divisive, and complex. When U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Central America a few weeks ago to better understand the root causes of migration, she recognized the driving force of poverty that leads people to leave their homes.