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Land-use change has affected ‘almost a third’ of world’s terrain since 1960

17 May 2021

Global

Current estimates of land-use change may be capturing only one-quarter of its true extent across the world, new research shows.

Decree Amending Several Provisions of Mexico’s General Law of Sustainable Forestry Development

10 May 2021

Mexico

On April 26, 2021, the Decree amending several provisions of Mexico’s General Law of Sustainable Forestry Development was published in the Federal Official Gazette (DOF). The Decree is effective as of April 27.

In relevant part, the Decree’s amendments include the following:

Job Opportunity: Land data researcher and advocacy consultant

9 September 2020

Global

Blogs

Traditional leaders in Zambia shift gender norms and strengthen women’s land rights

1 July 2021

Authors:

Patricia Malasha

Africa

Zambia

Across much of Africa, land is not allocated and inherited under statutory law but through customary practices rooted in kinship. In patrilineal systems, land belongs to men’s families and is inherited through the paternal line.

In Zambia, many ethnic groups follow a matrilineal system, where women own land and pass it down the maternal line.

How can Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) help sustain land governance solutions?

1 July 2021

Authors:

Gwen van Boven

Global

In this session, we explored the linkages between Strategic Environmental Assessment and land governance. SEA often deals with land-related aspects in planning, and has the potential to ensure that they are satisfactorily dealt with in decision making. This potential could reach further if SEA would be applied more widely and, most importantly, before irreversible changes to land and land use are made. Doing SEA before ESIA for concrete investments can help avoid some of the land related challenges and conflicts currently encountered.

Earth Day 2021 – Restore Our Earth

5 May 2021

Authors:

Richard Junokas

Global

Every year on April 22nd over a billion people across the world come together to observe Earth Day. First established in 1970, Earth Day was created to drive action in combatting the ongoing global environmental and climate crisis. The theme of the 2021 event is Restore Our Earth. The 2021 Earth Day campaign covers various concepts for how we can restore our earth, but sometimes these can be difficult to visualise.

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Events

EADI webinar: Land conflict in Myanmar

22 June 2020

Location

Online

United States

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US

Myanmar

Myanmar faces enormous development challenges in the midst of a rapidly changing and uncertain political and economic landscape. The European Journal of Development Research is pleased to present a special issue on development challenges in Myanmar. In this webinar, we draw on the findings of two papers within the special issue, examining land conflict in Myanmar.

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Library

Organizing for transformation? How and why organizers plan their multi-stakeholder forums

Journal Articles & Books

April 2021

Ethiopia

Brazil

Peru

Indonesia

HIGHLIGHTS

Trust-building and leadership in multi-stakeholder forums: Lessons from Indonesia

Journal Articles & Books

April 2021

Indonesia

HIGHLIGHTS

Assessing sponge cities performance at city scale using remotely sensed LULC changes: Case study Nanjing

Journal Articles & Books

March 2021

As a result of high-density urbanization and climate change, both the frequency and intensity of extreme urban rainfall are increasing. Drainage systems are not designed to cope with this increase, and as a result, floods are becoming more common in cities, particularly in the rapidly growing cities of China.

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