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Enviado por Myrna Kay Cunningham Kain
En el 2015, más de 500 millones de hectáreas de bosque estaban bajo posesión de pueblos indígenas. A pesar de que en las últimas décadas el área boscosa designada para y en posesión de pueblos indígenas ha crecido, los gobiernos aún tienen 60% de estas áreas…
Myrna Kay Cunningham Kain
Em 2015, mais de 500 milhões de hectares de florestas eram posse de povos indígenas. Embora nas últimas décadas a área florestal designada aos povos indígenas e sob sua posse tenha aumentado, os governos ainda administram 60% dessas áreas, e as corporações e agentes…
By Justin Adams, Global Managing Director for Lands at The Nature Conservancy.
Edward Loure and The Nature Conservancy have a common story. The story is one of reducing conflict by finding common ground—in this case both literally and metaphorically.
All over the world – in fact, for 2.5…
By Oxfam International
Food and beverage industry giants improve policy commitments but they must turn them into action
Nine of the “Big 10” global food and beverage companies have improved their ratings by at least 10 percent in three years since Oxfam began keeping score through its “Behind the…
South Africa faces numerous challenges when it comes to providing fair governance of land, fisheries and forests. Among these are the need to remedy the racially skewed resource regime; to secure the rights of poor people to natural resources on which their livelihoods depend; and create accessible…
By Ruth Hall, Associate Professor, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, and Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Four years ago voluntary guidelines on the governance of land and land tenure were…
By Colleen O'Holleran
Over the past few decades there has been growing awareness of the need to strengthen land rights for women and men across the African continent. As a result, governments have come under growing pressure to improve laws, policies and institutions to guarantee Africa’s…
By Nicholas K. Tagliarino, World Resources Institute
Land and property rights are key to myriad development goals, from hunger to women's economic empowerment. So why are they so hard to obtain?
“Let us wake up, humankind…Let us build societies that are able to coexist in a dignified way, in…
Por Jonathan Báez y Pablo Iturralde[i]
Los Panama Papers indican que el sector rural también está afectado por mecanismos vinculados a paraísos fiscales, en la nueva lista publicada el 9 de mayo, se pueden encontrar algunos ejemplos de grandes agroindustriales vinculados a floricultoras, bananeras…
Date: 13 mai 2016
Source: WWF
Pour célébrer la journée internationale de la forêt, le 21 mars dernier, le WWF a lancé son micro-site forestsolutions.panda.org, une plateforme dédiée à la protection des écosystèmes forestiers. Les internautes peuvent y trouver des informations sur les services…
By Lorenzo Cotula, Principal Researcher for the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
The commodity slump has cooled the global land rush. But land rights are still under pressure, requiring action at local to global levels.
The commodity price hikes of 2007-08 and…
By Nicholas Tagliarino, Celine Salcedo-La Viña and Sam Szoke-Burke
Indigenous representatives from around the world are convening in New York this week for the 15th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The Forum is the UN’s central coordinating and advisory body on…