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29 Janeiro 2021
The data revolution – characterised by the transition to big data, open data and new digital data infrastructures [1] – is projected to make an astonishing 44 billion terabytes of digital data and information available by the end of 2020 [2]. Despite this plethora of information now available to us…
29 Janeiro 2021
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, many low-income countries are looking to their untapped natural resources as a way to deliver a swift economic boost. But there are concerns that the drive for urgent solutions could impinge on vital governance safeguards. Nathaniah Jacobs and…
28 Janeiro 2021
Prindex Researcher Joseph Feyertag argues that corruption holds the key to unlocking tenure insecurity.
Today, Germany’s development agency GIZ will launch a report on the role of open data in fighting land corruption at a joint event with Land Portal, and Transparency International’s latest…
28 Janeiro 2021
Forest tenure reform in the global south has often failed to be gender-responsive, but there is increasing interest in taking up this challenge to activate effective change.
Now, a new guide created by scientists with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) aims to make the…
26 Janeiro 2021
Opening up land-related administrative data, combining it with data from other sources and processing and making this data available as easily accessible information for women and men equally could be a means to counteracting land corruption in land management, land administration and land…
21 Janeiro 2021
On January 24, 2020, a quiet revolution happened in South Africa. In a landmark ruling in the Durban High Court, 72-year old Agnes Sithole scored a legal victory that not only provided her a share of her husband’s estate but may also help to protect an estimated 400,000 black elderly women in South…
18 Dezembro 2020
Por José Eustáquio Diniz Alves
As florestas estão desaparecendo no mundo. Havia 6 trilhões de árvores no passado. Mas a humanidade destruiu a metade das florestas desde o crescimento exponencial da população e da economia.
A população mundial passou de 1 bilhão em 1800 para quase 8…
16 Dezembro 2020
Los ríos, los lagos, la tierra, son sujetos de derechos y como tal, hay que respetarlos
Un blog de Delfina Mux Caná*
De niña, recuerdo que cuando acompañaba a mi abuela a las montañas, bosques, ríos y valles, antes de entrar a estos lugares, ella pedía permiso y hablaba con los árboles…
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15 Dezembro 2020
We need to understand the consequences of technology, migration, climate shifts, infrastructure and a growing middle class on forest-dependent people
The fifth anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement offers a moment to reflect on progress towards global climate goals. When it comes to…
9 Dezembro 2020
Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain, and corrupt practices in the context of land administration and land management have come to be known as ‘land corruption.’ Unfortunately, land corruption is all too common, with one in every five people across the globe paying bribes to…
8 Dezembro 2020
In recent months, supreme courts from India to Nigeria and Zimbabwe have issued historic opinions recognizing and strengthening women’s rights to land and property.
And while this is important and welcome progress, courts alone aren’t going to get us far enough, fast enough on this critical issue…
4 Dezembro 2020
For centuries, people around the world in the continents of Asia, Africa, Oceania and Latin America have been living off the forests and other natural resources to sustain their livelihoods, their cultural practices and sometimes even religious rituals. This “normality” continued even after the…