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Interactive guide to the VGGT
Open Land Contracts
OpenLandContracts.org is a repository of publicly available investment contracts for land, agriculture, and forestry projects. It features plain language summaries of key provisions and provides tools for searching and comparing contracts.
Climate strikes spread around the globe
The kids are not all right. For more than a year, young activists have been staging climate strikes around the globe. They are about to get much bigger. Sparked by 16-year-old Greta Thunberg in Sweden last year, the school walk-out movement has spread to what organizers hope will be millions of children and adults around the world protesting for action to end the climate crisis.
Taking back the hills: a tale of women rights and lands in the Catalan Pyrenees
(MENAFN - The Conversation) I met Meritxell and Laia one bright sunny day in April, in thePallars Sobirà , a mountainous county in the Catalan Pyrenees. Both are women farmers and work in livestock management – Meritxell is a cattle rancher, while Laia herds goats and makes cheese.
Seeds of inequality: women in sustainable agriculture
Control over land management may be more important than mere legal entitlement when it comes to women’s land rights
Strengthening Land Rights Will Curb Migration
What the US faces on its southern border is not a security problem, but a humanitarian crisis, and punishing attempts at deterrence cannot resolve it. Enabling people to stay where they are requires, first and foremost, strengthening their right to be there.
A Papuan village finds its forest caught in a web of corporate secrecy
- Indonesian companies were given until March this year to disclose their “beneficial owners” under a 2018 presidential regulation, but less than 1 percent have complied.
- In the easternmost corner of the country, investors hidden by layers of corporate secrecy continue to bulldoze an intact rainforest and have nearly finished building a giant sawmill.
After 10 Years of Fighting, Morocco’s Soulalyat Women Find Justice
The approval of the new law has cemented an important step in the fight for women claiming rights to communal lands.
ez – “Although it is too late for me to get back some of my lands, when I see all these women finally getting justice, I feel like the struggle has been worth it. I feel that their joy is my joy,” said Rkia Bellot, a soulalya woman and activist, to Morocco World News.
“Whether they like it or not, it is our right. The law is on our side now.”