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Call for papers - CURRENT ISSUES OF AGRICULTURAL LAW IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
CURRENT ISSUES OF AGRICULTURAL LAW IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Colloquium
When: 17-18 September 2015
Where: Pisa, Italy
Deadline for abstract: 3rd April 2015
Deadline for draft paper: 3rd July 2015
Full invitation: http://www.cdg-lab.dirpolis.sssup.it/files/2015/01/Colloquium.pdf
CALL FOR PAPERS
Indigenous Barngarla Australians win land claim
Source: BBC News
Australia's indigenous Barngarla people have won a campaign, lasting nearly 20 years, for the law to recognise their right to traditional lands.
The native title claim over a huge tract of land in South Australia has been mostly upheld by a federal court.
Native titles are pre-colonial rights held by Australia's indigenous people, derived from their laws and customs.
3rd International Conference on Natural Resource Management for Food and Rural Livelihoods
10 Feb 2015 - 13 Feb 2015
The Soil Conservation Society of India, New Delhi (established in 1951 and have more than 2900 professionals as life members) is going to organize its 3rd International Conference on Natural Resource Management for Food and Rural Livelihoods from 10-13 February 2015 at New Delhi, India.
Secure and equitable land rights in the Post-2015 Agenda. A key issue in the future we want
Source: OXFAM International
This technical briefing authored by a number of international organizations working on food security, natural resources management and poverty eradication and endorsed by many local civil society organizations around the world strongly encourages governments to keep the profile of land and natural resources high in the document on sustainable development goals to be endorsed in September 2015.
How pastoralists innovate: stories from the highlands of China
Source: Future Agricultures
Written by:Nathan Oxley
For several years Future Agricultures has worked on pastoralism within African settings. For comparison, this post looks at a case from theTibetan Plateau, where pastoralists are facing similar challenges to those investigated by our Pastoralism theme.
International Seminar, "REDD+ Finance Mechanism and Its Optimum Use - How to incentivize forest conservation"
Background and Objectives
Multiple funds and finance mechanisms have contributed in promoting forest-related activities in developing countries. Designing an effective finance scheme is one of the key elements to enhance effective and efficient forest conservation and sustainable forest management in developing countries.
Remise en cause des lois foncières et semencières : qui tire les ficelles des changements en Afrique ?
Source:GRAIN
Le lobby qui cherche à industrialiser la production alimentaire en Afrique modifie aussi la législation semencière et foncière pour qu'elle serve les intérêts de l'industrie agroalimentaire. L'objectif final est de transformer ce qui a longtemps été considéré comme un bien commun en Afrique en une marchandise commercialisable que le secteur privé peut contrôler et dont il peut retirer des profits, au détriment des petits agriculteurs et des communautés.