Desertification/land degradation is rarely accounted for as an economic issue, and drought barely accounted for as a disaster. Because desertification, land degradation and drought are slow and silent phenomena, they have a way of creeping up on us and thereby leading us to underestimate their…
La désertification et la dégradation des terres sont rarement considérées comme un problème économique et la sécheresse est à peine considérée comme une catastrophe. Du fait que la désertification, la dégradation des terres et la sécheresse sont des phénomènes lents et muets, ils progressent peu…
La desertificación/degradación de la tierra raramente está considerada como un tema económico, y la sequía rara vez como un desastre. Dado que la desertificación, la degradación de la tierra y la sequía son procesos lentos y sigilosos, su avance es subrepticio, y nos inducen a subestimar sus…
Migratory species come in all shapes and sizes, from tiny insects and birds to large buffalo and elephants, to sharks and dolphins or snakes . Whether their journey crosses thousands of kilometers, or just a few, migratory species play essential roles in ecosystems worldwide. But their diverse…
Les espèces migratrices sont très variées, depuis les insectes et les oiseaux jusqu’aux bisons et aux éléphants, depuis les requins et les dauphins jusqu’aux serpents. Qu’elles parcourent des milliers de kilomètres ou quelques kilomètres seulement, ces espèces jouent un rôle essentiel dans les…
Las especies migratorias existen en todos los tamaños y formas, desde los de minúsculos insectos y pequeñas aves hasta grandes búfalos y elefantes, pasando por tiburones y delfines o serpientes. Tanto si el viaje que realizan es de miles de kilómetros como de unos pocos, las especies migratorias…
Across the developing world, rural women suffer widespread gender-based discrimination in laws, customs and practices cause severe inequalities in their ability to access, control, own and use land and limit their participation in decision-making at all levels of land governance. This synthesis…
The guide focuses on equity and on how land tenure can be governed in ways that address the different needs and priorities of women and men. It moves away from long-standing debates about gender equality in access to land, towards the mainstreaming of gender issues to achieve more gender-…
Why are the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests important?
After having been the source of livelihood of most of the earth’s population for thousands of years, land and other natural resources have become objects of speculation,…
This guide offers a three-point framework for companies seeking to integrate FPIC principles into their policies and apply them in the operations. This includes
• complying with the requirements for FPIC under international and national law,
• implementing FPIC principles…
Ecological footprint analysis (EFA) can be used by cities to account for their on-going demands on global renewable resources. To date, EFA has not been fully implemented as an urban policy and planning tool in part due to limitations of local data availability. In this paper we focus on the…
This paper investigates the real financial consequences of investing in land with disputed tenure rights. It demonstrates that companies which ignore the issue of land tenure expose themselves to substantial, and in some cases extreme, risks. Using case study analysis, the paper connects ground-…