Madagascar is one of the countries that contributes the least to climate crisis yet is the fourth most affected by it according to the 2020 Global Climate Risk Index. The country is also a biodiversity hotspot.
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Madagascar: strong concerns around the new land law
At its last meeting on 10 November, the Committee's experts exchanged views on recent legislative developments in Madagascar and expressed their concerns regarding the likely adoption of Law 2021-06. This calls into question the recognition of customary land rights and leads to a reversal of the decentralized land management process that had been under way since 2005.
A través del DS N° 015-2021-MC se establece categorización que permitirá establecer mecanismos de protección territorial en el ámbito de la reserva ubicada en las regiones de Loreto, Ucayali y Huánuco
La comunidad nativa kichwa Santa Rosillo de Yanayacu, ubicada en la zona del Bajo Huallaga, (distrito de Huimbayoc, región de San Martín) viene siendo amenazada por grupos de madereros ilegales, quienes deforestan el bosque de la comunidad sembrando amenazas y violencia. Desde hace años, la comunidad viene denunciando estas violaciones permanentes a su territorio y contra la vida de las personas defensoras. “¿Acaso el Estado está esperando que nos maten?!
- An irregular land titling system is behind the deforestation of a swath of Amazon rainforest now occupied by a Mennonite colony in Masisea municipality, in Peru’s Ucayali department.
- In 2015, more than 40 land registry files were filled out with false information to give forests titles that made them appear to be farmland.
- This system, used in several places in Ucayali department, allowed for the deforestation of more than 1,000 hectares (2,500 acres) of forests in Masisea and within Indigenous communities.
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His administration will establish the "Agrarian Civil Service," a program through which thousands of young university students will technically support the farmers.
On Sunday, Peru’s President Pedro Castillo launched the "second agrarian reform", which is a national policy for the development of agriculture through the incorporation of technology, the provision of technical advice, and the construction of productive infrastructure.
Se cree que la infraestructura es directamente responsable de entre el 9% y 17% de la deforestación en los países tropicales y subtropicales. Y también hay un efecto indirecto.
Los proyectos viales en la Amazonía podrían impulsar la deforestación de millones de hectáreas durante los próximos 20 años, dijeron investigadores ambientales en un informe.
A national validation workshop discussed the draft National Land Policy Document of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Kinshasa on 15–17 November 2021.
The workshop was part of a process that began in November 2018 at the Bukavu interprovincial forum to formulate a new national land policy. The Bukavu forum identified strategic options that were turned into a draft policy document in December 2018. This first draft was submitted to a series of consultations in all 26 provinces in the country with a wide range of stakeholders.
On 2 December 2021 the mayor of Mbale City, Cassim Namugali, issued 511 Certificates of Customary Ownership in a colourful ceremony. The event took place at Wanale Division Hall in Mbale City. These are the first ever such certificates to be issued in an urban area in Uganda. Several hundred Mbale residents took part in the ceremony.