Blog originalmente publicado no IGTNews No. 34

WHY REJECT CUSTOMARY LAND PRIVATISATION 

Most of the world’s land is still stewarded by communities under customary systems. Billions of people rely on communally managed farmland, pasture, forests and savannahs for their livelihoods. 

This collective management of resources is viewed in the colonial or capitalist economic model as an obstacle to individual wealth creation and private profit. 

Our food systems are in urgent need of transformation, as humanity faces one of our biggest challenges yet; feeding a future population of 10 billion people with safe and nutritious food while keeping a healthy planet. Our food system has the power to tip the scales and transform the future of our planet and humankind.

There is an underlying tension in the land rights movement that is rarely addressed head on, which is the perception that securing women’s land rights threatens community land rights. Community land rights are typically held by indigenous people, small-scale and subsistence farmers, pastoralists, herders and many other groups who are directly dependent on land for their livelihoods but whose land tenure is often the most precarious.

Blog originalmente publicado no IGTNews No. 33

Blog originalmente publicado no IGTNews No. 33

Blog originalmente publicado no IGTNews No. 33

Desde o ano passado, um grande número de países anunciaram metas de zero emissões líquidas de gases causadores de efeito estufa para a metade do século XXI. Entre União Européia, Japão, Coréia do Sul e outros, somam-se, nas estimativas da ONU, 110 países - o que representaria 65% das emissões globais e mais de 70% da economia mundial [1].

Membros da comunidade Mayangna de Wina denunciaram à CALPI que ontem, 5 de julho de 2021, às 19h20, foram feridos indígenas membros da comunidade de Wina identificados como Abelardo Landero Lopez, de 42 anos de idade, e sua cunhada Sra. Aura Lila Perez, de 32 anos de idade. Os atacantes eram seis colonos armados, não-indígenas, que cobriam seus rostos com balaclavas.

The main objective of the LAND-at-scale program is to directly strengthen essential land governance components for men, women and youth that have the potential to contribute to structural, just, sustainable and inclusive change at scale. An ambitious objective, that cannot be achieved in isolation. Alignment is, therefore, a key factor in all LAND-at-scale activities - be it at project level for our country interventions or through our collaborative approach to knowledge management.

Knowledge management and learning are at the heart of the LAND-at-scale program. On June 29^th at a pre-event of the LANDac conference, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), LANDac and the International Land Coalition (ILC) officially announced their collaboration to implement the knowledge management (KM) component of the program.

This session zoomed in on the local situation and challenges faced by grassroots communities and women in some low-Income countries. It provided an overview of support provided by Civil Society organizations (and governments) facilitating communities, women in particular, to step up the efforts to strengthen their land rights and to generate resilience in face of the climate and COVID-19 challenges they are facing.

More secure land tenure provides much better opportunities to face climate and COVID-19 challenges by investing in high biodiversity local food & income systems.

Imagem: Edgar Kanaykõ Xakriabá Etnofotografia | antropologia

Blog originalmente publicado no IGTNews No. 32