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20 Setembro 2019
On 24 and 25 September 2019, Heads of State and Governments will gather at the United Nations Headquarters in New York for the summit Accelerating the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This is a crucial event for evaluating progress towards the 17 goals and 169…
17 Setembro 2019
Our online discussion “Open Land Data in the Fight Against Corruption” is well underway with many interesting contributions so far. We are discussing whether Open Data can be a key tool to increase transparency, support innovation and increase civic engagement, in the fight against corruption. One…
15 Setembro 2019
This blog has originally been published by CABI at https://blog.cabi.org/2015/09/25/new-report-reveals-the-true-cost-of-land-degradation/
A recent report The Value of Land: Prosperous lands and positive rewards through sustainable land management published 15th September by the Economics…
6 Setembro 2019
A conversation with Annie Signorelli, Project Manager for Renewable Energy and Human Rights at the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
This is the first interview in the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment's Climate Crisis, Global Land Use, and Human Rights Interview Series.
The…
31 Agosto 2019
Increasingly, governments and citizens in developing countries as well as development agencies are using information technology to improve governance, shape government-citizen relations, and reduce corruption. Despite this, we continue to be at the first phases of understanding how to best use…
27 Agosto 2019
Banks must stand with Indigenous and local communities in respecting their land rights
In 2018, every week more than three people were murdered, defending their land and environment from destructive industries like mining, logging and agribusiness. These killings represent the extreme end of a…
23 Agosto 2019
The climate crisis will reshape our relationships to land around the world. Journalist David Wallace-Wells warns that, once the planet warms 2°C above preindustrial levels — the target set by the Paris Agreement — “major cities in the equatorial band of the planet will become unlivable,” and 400…
12 Agosto 2019
Date: 12 août 2019
Source: DW
Par: Henri Fotso
L'achat massif de terres agricoles en Afrique par certaines puissances étrangères constitue une menace à la fois pour le développement et la sécurité alimentaire des régions concernées.
Logiquement, les Africains peuvent acquérir des terres en Afrique…
12 Agosto 2019
At the Land Portal, we are always trying to align with other open initiatives, and Wikidata is one of them. Wikidata was created as a central collaboratively edited knowledge base, adding semantics to the pieces that conforms it so computers can understand the relationships between these pieces.…
12 Agosto 2019
Knowing the "where" is important for so many companies and projects today. A business might want to know what path you take to work to send you targeted ads about coffee shops you pass. Augmented reality platforms might map out interior spaces of your home and offices to create a dancing critter in…
12 Agosto 2019
Pouring several colors of paint into a single bucket produces a gray pool of muck, not a shiny rainbow. So too with discussions of financing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Jumbling too many issues into the same debate leads to policy muddiness rather than practical breakthroughs.…
9 Agosto 2019
Documento publicado ontem alerta: é urgente mudar agricultura e mudar sistema alimentar. Leia também: Fiocruz consegue publicar estudo sobre drogas censurado pelo governo; exposição tentou usar lei da Cultura para promover marcas de comida
Por Raquel Torres
A CARNE, A TERRA E O CLIMA
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