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Moroccan women build land rights movement
La marcha 155 de Andalgalá
Open Government Data on land
December 1, 2012
Of the five pilot countries of the Land Observatory, two are members of the growing, global Open Government Partnership (OGP): Peru and Tanzania. The OGP sets targets for member government in terms of openness, and convenes events and debate around openness.
E-consultation on hunger and food security
An e-consultation is now open for Post-MDG Agenda on Hunger, Food Security and Nutrition. Please see below an invitation from the thematic lead of the consultation (FAO and WFP):
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Dear colleagues,
Angola's trophy city a 'ghost town'
La UAC se reúne en San Juan
Peru: A data-rich context
November 22, 2012
We spent this week with Peruvian partners in co-development and training sessions, hosted by CEPES. This is a data-rich and data-diverse environment, where partners prefer to refer to "land transactions" than "land deals". Often land titles are traded between Peruvian investors, and this is something they would like to be able to track, in addition to concessions and other transactions.
South Africa: Cape farmland could lose ground to housing
Despite research warning that the Philippi horticultural area, a mere 20-minute drive from the Cape Town city centre, is crucial to the city's food security and particularly that of its poorest, the Western Cape department of environmental affairs and development planning opened the door for the rezoning of potential farmland to allow urban development.