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Toolkit on the Inter-American human rights system for indigenous women

Central America

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Nueva publicación sobre Concentración de Tierras y Seguridad Alimentaria en Centroamérica

Central America

Source: International Land Coalition
14 de noviembre de 2014.

En Centroamérica tierra significa poder: su tenencia y uso siguen siendo decisivos para el desarrollo social, económico y político de la región. La agricultura es la principal actividad económica y la población rural representa cerca de la mitad de los habitantes, proporción mayor al resto de la región latinoamericana.

‘Narco-deforestation’ may boost disaster risks in Central America

20 June 2018

Central America

Without forests to act as a natural "shield" against extreme weather, communities are becoming more vulnerable to natural disasters

SAN JOSE, June 20 - When La Mosquitia, a heavily forested region on Honduras' Caribbean coast, began to experience unusual flooding, David Wrathall, a climate and disaster expert who was living there, headed into the forest to take a look.

What he found was a surprise: Huge sections of forest had been cut by drug trafficking gangs and turned into cattle ranches aimed at laundering illegal drug profits.

Blogs

Nicaragua’s Indigenous Peoples Protect their Forests Even Without Government Support

Central America

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FOOD CRISIS AS FACTOR OF FUTURE VALUE OF THE AGRICULTURAL LAND

Peer-reviewed publication

August 2017

Ukraine

Africa

Central America

Asia

South America

At the present stage of human development, food is one of the most acute problems. Over the past 30-40 years, the growth rate of population in many countries of the world is ahead of the growth rate of agricultural production, which leads to acute shortage of food. This is especially true of developing countries, which accounts for the overwhelming majority of the population of the planet that is under-eating and starving. According to FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), in the world now about half a billion people are constantly hungry and twice asleep.

A spatio-temporal analysis of forest loss related to cocaine trafficking in Central America

Journal Articles & Books

May 2017

Central America

Guatemala

Honduras

Nicaragua

A growing body of evidence suggests that criminal activities associated with drug trafficking networks are a progressively important driver of forest loss in Central America. However, the scale at which drug trafficking represents a driver of forest loss is not presently known. We estimated the degree to which narcotics trafficking may contribute to forest loss using an unsupervised spatial clustering of 15 spatial and temporal forest loss patch metrics developed from global forest change data.

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Organizations

Environment for Development (EfD)

Network

University or Research Institution

The Environment for Development (EfD) Initiative is a capacity building program in environmental economics focusing on research, policy interaction, and academic programs. The overall objective of EfD is to support poverty alleviation and sustainable development by building environmental economics capacity in policy making processes.

iDe

Private sector

iDE is a global effort that spans offices in 14 countries, encompassing 4 social enterprises, employing nearly 1,000 people directly, and indirectly enabling many more through our market-based approaches in agriculture; water, sanitation, and health; and finance.

Our beliefs are best summarized in a series of simple statements that guide our daily actions.

Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Nitlapan (Nitlapan)

Civil Society Organization

Misión

Promover, a nivel territorial, nacional y centroamericano, modelos incluyentes de desarrollo con enfoque de género, mediante servicios no financieros e intervenciones en cadena de valor, mejor gobernanza de la tierra y los recursos naturales, combinando para ello experimentación de procesos novedosos, generación de métodos, investigaciones, formación académica y profesional, e incidencia en políticas públicas.

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