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Tierra sigue despertando interés en los inversores extranjeros - Uruguay
New roadmap for boosting small-scale and family forest producers
In many rural economies, the forest enterprises of families and communities are major contributors to local livelihoods.
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30 June 2014, Rome - Indigenous peoples, local communities and private smallholders own or manage a growing proportion of the world's forests and can play a significant role in tackling deforestation and reducing poverty - especially if they band together in producer organizations, say two new publications released today by FAO and a group of its partners.
La tierra uruguaya será para uruguayos
La paradoja de la tierra - Colombia
La relación entre la agricultura, la ganadería y el cambio climático envuelve una contradicción. Por un lado, el sector agropecuario contribuye al aumento de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero. Por el otro, es vulnerable a los efectos del calentamiento global, lo que podría desencadenar una crisis alimentaria.
World Bank and UN carbon offset scheme 'complicit' in genocidal land grabs - NGOs
UN's REDD scheme promises carbon offsetting will empower local communities in the developing world while conserving forests - but critics say the scheme is fuelling genocidal evictions of indigenous people from their lands.
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Sonoma Land Trust Completes Purchase of Land With Highest Peak on Sonoma Coast
Pole Mountain area. Photo by Stephen Joseph Photography/Courtesy of Sonoma Land Trust on Facebook.
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Sonoma Land Trust has completed the $2.35 million purchase of Pole Mountain Preserve, which includes the highest peak along the Sonoma Coast.
The Preserve's 238 acres connects the Jenner Headlands and the Sonoma Land Trust's Little Black Mountain Preserve near Cazadero.
Land administration challenges after land reform: evidence from Masvingo - Zimbabwe
As readers of this blog will know, we have been tracking 400 farms since the early 2000s across Masvingo province. One of the things we have been looking at is how plots change hands over time. This is important for a number of reasons.