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À la croisée des chemins : Analyse de l’impact des politiques pastorales sur les éleveurs d'Abalak, Niger
Cette étude porte sur les moyens de subsistance des éleveurs qui résident dans le département d’Abalak au Niger. L’étude analyse les méthodes de pastoralisme pratiquées par les éleveurs d’Abalak et l’incidence des politiques régionales, nationales et locales sur leurs moyens de subsistance. (Rédigé par M. Oussouby Touré).
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Accaparement des terres au Mali: des titres fonciers annulés
Au Mali, le ministère des Domaines de l'Etat et des Affaires foncières, Mohamed Ali Bathily, veut lutter contre l'accaparement illégal des terres appartenant souvent à des paysans ou des citoyens démunis. Un plan qui comprend un volet concernant la spéculation foncière. Cinquante titres ont été annulés la semaine dernière.
Russia: Khanty clans say "no" to oil companies
"This is the last piece of land where we can feed our reindeer."
In West-Siberia’s Khanty-Mansi autonomous region, a region of the size of France, where much of Russia’s crude oil is extracted, a new conflict between indigenous Khanty reindeer herders and the powerful oil producers is unfolding. The Khanty are an indigenous nation of 30,000. Their language is related to modern Hungarian and their main subsistence activities are fishing, reindeer herding, hunting and gathering.
Indigenous peoples of Peru unite to denounce imminent legal reforms that threaten land rights
In a statement published in a national newspaper, the council of AIDESEP, which represents over 1800 communities in the Peruvian Amazon called for the repeal and shelving of recent legal reforms being pushed through Peru’s parliament that threaten to further weaken indigenous peoples’ rights to land in favour of development projects. They also announced that they will file a formal complaint to the Inter American Development Bank’s (IDB) complaint mechanism if promised changes to a nationwide land titling programme remain undelivered.
Manifiestos por la tierra, las aguas, los territorios y la vida
Desde Wallmapu en los últimos años se han realizado diversos pronunciamientos relativos a la defensa y recuperación de la tierra, las aguas y los territorios desde una perspectiva identitaria, cultural y de desarrollo de vida.
Food for thought about rural women
Despite advances in global gender equality, "we are still failing rural women, particularly women farmers", write Jacqui Ashby and Jennifer Twyman.
As is often the case, failure is rooted in missing information. We are failing rural women farmers by not empowering them to improve the wrong data which we use to describe their situations, the authors write. As a result, the knowledge we need in order to boost food supplies in changing climates is much less complete than it could be.
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
Land Governance for Development
Large-scale acquisition of land in the global South has received a great deal of interest in the last few years. Especially following the food crisis (2003-08), and stimulated by the growing demand for biofuels, pressure on land continues to increase. This course provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the ‘land rush’ within the more general context of land governance in Africa, Asia and Latin America: the history and drivers, the diversity of stakeholders and networks involved, the urgency and current challenges, and innovative governance solutions.