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Benefits of strengthening AGRIS in Europe and Central Asia highlighted in Moscow

27 June 2019

Nigeria

Mexico

Brazil

Colombia

United States of America

China

Philippines

India

Turkey

United Kingdom

A regional workshop on “Strengthening the Accessibility and Visibility of Agricultural and Land Data through the Use of Semantics - AGRIS in Europe and Central Asia” was held by FAO in collaboration with the LandPortal Foundation (the Netherlands) in Moscow, 27-28 June 2019, hosted by the Central Scientific Agricultural Library (CSAL).

The Challenging Life Of Female Farmers: Why A Gender Mainstreaming Is Necessary In Agriculture

18 March 2019

Europe

Global

Women’s economic empowerment is a necessary step to promote women’s rights and achieve gender equality. Throughout the last decades, women have been entering the labor market and, despite the still existing inequalities in terms of wages and opportunities, there are many sectors in which women have achieved great visibility. This is not the case of agriculture and livestock.

Guatemalan community feminists seek end to violence against the land and women

23 January 2019

Americas

Guatemala

The TZK'AT Network of Ancestral Healers of Community Feminism from Ixmulew in Guatemala was formed in October 2015 to defend Indigenous women's rights and the land.

Many of its members are healers, midwives, and herbalists.

Blogs

Land governance at Global Soil Week 2019

27 June 2019

Authors:

Ms. Juliet Tsuma

Africa

On 27-30 May 2019 around 200 actors engaged in talks to initiate and reinforce guidelines and actions on sustainable soil management and land governance at the World Agroforestry headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.

“Soil is a universal element for survival,” says Alice Kaudia, Founder and Executive Director, Eco-Entrepreneurs. Kaudia alongside Alexander Mueller, Managing Director, Think Tank for Sustainability (TMG) moderated plenary sessions during the 2019 Global Soil Week.

Case for optimism: Real-world success stories of indigenous and rural women claiming their rights

23 May 2019

Authors:

Ms. Lindsay Bigda

Global

Across the globe, indigenous and rural women make invaluable contributions to their communities and toward global sustainable development and climate goals. They use, manage, and conserve the community territories that comprise over 50 percent of the world’s land and support up to 2.5 billion people.

More Data - Better Governance of Land Tenure?

20 December 2018

Authors:

Romy Sato

Global

In the last five years, significant steps have been taken to put land tenure security as a priority in global policy frameworks, but also in implementation plans. A side event at CFS45, organised by the Global Donor Working Group on Land with other key players, took stock of progress.

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Events

HEKS/EPER Land Forum 2018: Putting the Peasants Rights’ Declaration into practice

10 December 2018

Location

Friedenskirche Bern

Friedensstrasse 9

Bern

Switzerland

See map: map.search.ch, Google Maps

CH

Global

There are high hopes that the process of drawing up an international human rights instrument for the promotion and protection of peasant rights will soon be crowned with success: In September, the Human Rights Council decides whether the newly negotiated UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas will be sent to the United Nations’ General Assembly in New Y

Organizations:

HEKS EPER

Committee on World Food Security (CFS 45)

15 October 2018 to 20 October 2018

Location

FAO Rome

Italy

See map: Google Maps

IT

Global

The 45th session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 45) will hold discussions on policy convergence on food security and nutrition in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, convene a Global Thematic Event on the Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security, and celebrate World Fo

Organizations:

FAO, Committee on World Food Security (CFS)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

MOOC on Open Data Management in Agriculture, Nutrition and Land

1 October 2018 to 19 October 2018

Location

Online

United States

See map: Google Maps

US

Global

Register now! MOOC on Open Data Management in Agriculture, Nutrition and Land starting Oct 1st 2018

Organizations:

GODAN

Land Portal Foundation

Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation ACP-EU

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Library

Gender, Land and Mining in Mongolia

Reports & Research

January 2018

Mongolia

Mokoro’s practical and action-oriented long-term strategic research project, the Women’s Land Tenure Security Project (WOLTS), is piloting its methodology through a ‘Study on the threats to women’s land tenure security in Mongolia and Tanzania’.

Insecure Land Rights in Brazil: Consequences for Rural Areas and Challenges for Improvement

Reports & Research

August 2016

Brazil

Brazil lags behind much of the world in taking advantage of an important driver of economic growth: secure land rights. In 2015, Brazil ranked 64th on the International Property Rights Index (IPRI). It ranked even lower, at 95th, for secure property rights on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Competitive Index.

Gender and Land Statistics

Policy Papers & Briefs

July 2016

Global

Secure tenure rights and control over land for women and men farmers are key to boosting smallholder productivity, rural development and food security. However, in many parts of the world, men and women have inadequate access to secure property rights over land.

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Organizations

ACORD

Founded over 30 years ago, ACORD is one of the oldest and largest Pan-African organisations. We work in 17 African countries to promote social justice and lift Africans out of poverty. ACORD works with more than one million Africans and 2000 partners on the continent and worldwide.

Africa Harvest (AH)

Africa Harvest Biotechnology Foundation International (Africa Harvest) was founded in 2002 and is incorporated in the USA as a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation. Its headquarters are in Nairobi, Kenya and it has regional offices in Washington DC, USA and Johannesburg, South Africa.

Vision

To be a lead contributor in freeing Africa from hunger, poverty and malnutrition.

Mission

African Farmers’ Association of South Africa (AFASA)

With the establishment of the African Farmers’ Association of South Africa (AFASA) in Boksburg on 11 and 12 April 2011, developing farmers now have a new, powerful voice. The launch of AFASA is the culmination of a yearlong consultation process with developing farmers country-wide to determine their need for an official structure that represents their interests.

Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA)

The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) is a not-for-profit association serving the professional interests of members working in agricultural and broadly related fields of applied economics.

Agriterra

Agriterra is an agri-agency, an organisation for international cooperation that was founded by civil society organisations in rural areas and the agricultural private sector.

Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)

Vision

To serve as an instrument of rural development through application of scientific knowledge and technology. The primary objective of ARTI is to develop, standardise, popularise & commercialise innovative rural technologies aimed at improving the quality of life and standard of living of the rural inhabitants of India.

Asian NGO Coalition (ANGOC)

Founded in 1979, ANGOC is a regional association of 20 national and regional networks of non-government organizations (NGO) in Asia actively engaged in food security, agrarian reform, sustainable agriculture, participatory governance and rural development.

Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA)

AsiaDHRRA traces its earliest roots to the 1974 Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia Workshop (DHRRAW) held in Thailand. It is a regional partnership of eleven (11) social development networks and organizations in eleven (11) Asian nations that envisions Asian rural communities that are just, free, prosperous, living in peace and working in solidarity towards self-reliance. To achieve this, the network’s mission is to be an effective

Asociación Interprofesional para el Desarrollo Agrario (AIDA)

La Asociación Interprofesional para el Desarrollo Agrario (AIDA) es una asociación sin ánimo de lucro, abierta a todos los profesionales del sector técnico, social y económico agrario. La Asociación no persigue fines lucrativos ni políticos, sino de interés social y técnico en el campo agrario.

Biovision Foundation

Biovision was founded in 1998 by Swiss World Food Prize recipient Dr. Hans Rudolf Herren, with the aim of sustainably improving life for people in Africa while conserving the environment as the basis for all life.

In the 1980s, the world renowned entomologist Hans Rudolf Herren saved millions of people in Africa from starving to death by devising organic control methods for a devastating cassava pest. He was awarded the World Food Prize in 1995 for his work – he is the first, and so far only, Swiss person to have received it.

Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Market Systems (BASIS) Collaborative Research Support Program (BASIS)

The Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Market Systems (BASIS) Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) carries out and disseminates collaborative, policy-oriented research that addresses rural poverty by making markets work for all. The website hosts research reports, working papers, briefs and trip reports.