Date: February 7th 2016
Source: Rainforest Rescue
By Philippine Sutz, Senior researcher – Legal Tools team; Natural Resources Group, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
This blog was produced for the LEGEND Land Policy Bulletin. Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development (LEGEND) is a DFID programme that aims to improve land rights protection, knowledge and information, and the quality of private sector investment in DFID priority countries.
Namati is launching an unprecedented new resource, unlike anything published in the field of land tenure security to date: a hands-on, step-by-step, practical “how to” guide for practitioners supporting communities to document and protect their land rights. With this Guide, Namati aims to inspire and support hundreds of organizations around the world to launch (or expand) grassroots community land protection efforts.
Evidence is growing that tenure-secure community forests are associated with avoided deforestation and other ecosystem-service benefits. There are also economic and social benefits connected to communal management.
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open philosophy and participatory community driven development.
ROUYN-NORANDA | Le groupe d’investisseurs chinois intéressés à acheter des terres agricoles au Témiscamingue et ainsi exporter de la luzerne déshydratée en Chine suspend son projet en raison de réactions négatives dans le quartier chinois à Montréal.
Par David Prince / Le Journal de Montreal
