We are happy to announce the launch of the project Participatory Land-Use Consolidation for Climate Resilience and Inclusive Business Models in Egypt, which started in May 2024 and will run until October 2026. The project aims to reduce land fragmentation through participatory land use consolidation in order to increase the productivity and income of smallholder farmers, and to strengthen the institutional capacity of key institutions on land governance aspects.

Em meados do mês passado, fomos surpreendidos com várias notícias de que o Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique (IIAM) está pronto a avançar com a liberalização de variedades de milho geneticamente modificado, faltando apenas a autorização da Autoridade Nacional de Biossegurança de Moçambique.

As part of a scoping study titled Land Governance for Climate Resilience: A review and case studies from LAND-at-scale projects headed by Richard Sliuzas, Emeritus Professor, University of Twente, GLTN dove into the links between climate and land governance in the ‘’Scaling up community-based land registration and land use planning on customary land in Uganda’’ project. This case study highlights experiences from the community-based wetland management planning approach in Butaleja, Uganda, focusing on how the approach is addressing land governance issues and contributing to community climate resilience.

What I learned about land rights from people who don't work in land rights

By Peter Sangeyon, Gender and Land Champion, WOLTS Project Tanzania

From 1995 to 2005 I was the village chairman, and I was a ward councillor for ten years after that. I was very pleased when the community selected me to be a WOLTS gender and land champion.

Desde que participou do treinamento WOLTS, a defensora de gênero e terra Sindooi está apoiando ativamente os direitos de herança de mulheres e viúvas em sua comunidade.

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Chad is at the verge of an emerging land tenure crisis. As observed in many countries in Africa, formal and customary tenure systems overlap. Customary tenure systems, that generally prevail in rural areas, differ from region to region, with each its own needs and practices. Land conflicts are abundant, caused by degradation and transformation of land surfaces caused by climate change, as well as land investments by domestic investors with disputed legitimacy.

Burundi has the world’s highest hunger score and around 45 percent of the population is affected by food insecurity. The country copes with increasing scarcity of land as a result of increasing population size, returnees and IDPs and climate change. With the majority of Burundians depending on agriculture for their food and livelihoods, land scarcity makes this reliance on agriculture precarious. This pressure on land causes elevated levels of land disputes with over 55% of all court cases being related to conflicts over land.

“Lata d’água na cabeça, lá vai Maria (…)  Lava roupa lá no alto e sonha com a vida no asfalto que acaba onde o morro principia”. Passado quase um século do lançamento dessa canção no Brasil, uma em cada quatro mulheres ainda não têm acesso à água tratada ou não é abastecida com regularidade no país, demonstrando que aquele cenário continua para as descendentes daquela e de muitas outras “Marias”. A emergência climática aumenta a vulnerabilidade.

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Por Oiwam Lam. Traduzido por: Doralice Silva