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IIED's legal tools team has an exciting opportunity for a French-speaking senior researcher to develop and manage action research programmes that will strengthen local rights and promote sustainable development in the governance of land and investment.
Department: Natural Resources research…
By: Mike Gaworecki
Date: December 20th 2016
Source: Mongabay.com
There’s already ample evidence of the ways environmental degradation can contribute to the spread of infectious diseases, and now a recent study provides an example of how the disruptions to an ecosystem caused by deforestation and…
Únete al Grupo Urbano de Instrumentos de Suelo ALC, parte de la Red Global de Instrumentos de Suelo GLTN / ONU-HABITAT, Habitat para Humanidad y la Fundación Land Portal, para la discusión en línea sobre conflictos de suelo en América Latina y Caribe.
Aprovecha la oportunidad para compartir y…
The FAO announces a new e-learning course on the Responsible Governance of Tenure.
Learn about:
making access to land, fisheries and forests more equitable
how to protect people's tenure rights
options to simplify the administration of tenure and make it accessible to all
how to ensure…
Date: 10 January 2017
Source: Namati
Namati’s Community Land Protection Facilitators Guide is a step-by-step, practical “how to” manual for grassroots advocates working to help communities protect their customary claims and rights to land and natural resources.
After years of working with partner…
Fonte: Nações Unidas no Brasil
Publicado em 03/01/2017
Fundo Voluntário da ONU para os Povos Indígenas convida representantes de organizações indígenas a enviar solicitações de apoio para a participação em reuniões em Genebra entre abril e junho de 2017.
O Fundo Voluntário da ONU para os Povos…
By Alia Afshar-Gandhi and Kirsten Weeks
Source: DAI
In developing countries, something is missing in the war on hunger: an equal voice for women.
Women produce more than half of the world’s food, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and are often responsible for selling,…
The Land Portal Foundation is recruiting up to two new board members to complement its existing board.
The Land Portal was set up in 2009 as a partnership project to address fragmented land information and resources, which makes it difficult and often prohibitively expensive to draw together…
Today, different farmers’ organizations of the European Coordination of La Via Campesina (ECVC) from the EU and Central Asia[2] took part in a public debate on access to land at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels[3].
They highlighted that land in Europe is concentrated…
Foto: Cinu Bogota/Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Secretário-geral da ONU, António Guterres, alertou para o pouco progresso das metas, previstas para serem concluídas até 2030; ele destacou a urgência de cooperação internacional e mais investimentos para alcançar os ODS nos próximos seis anos, frente a…