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By Michael Taylor, Director of the International Land Coalition (ILC)
When world leaders adopted the SDGs in September 2015, they took a bold step in recognising the reality that ‘sustainable development’ is complex and multifaceted. While many criticised the explosion of targets and indicators…
By the Center for International Forestry Research Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Peru - The indigenous community of Tres Islas in southeastern Peru seems to have it all—good fishing; a vast forest of timber, Brazil nut, palm and other trees; and natural beauty any…
By Kaitlin Cordes and Jesse Coleman, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI)
As food systems become increasingly globalized, and commodity markets more complex, policymakers face the ever more difficult task of identifying and addressing multiple risks to food security. One…
Common stereotypes can hinder the advance of women’s opportunities on the ground
By Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing, and Sophie Theis
As the U.N. International Day of Rural Women on Oct. 15 spotlights the key role women play in the dynamic economies of the developing world, you may see…
By Justine Uvuza, senior gender and land tenure specialist at Landesa
Property and citizenship are in many ways what define us, and they interact in fascinating ways.
To understand how property ownership strengthens people’s ability to enjoy full citizenship – and here we are talking about civic…
Date: 28 octobre 2016
Source: Visions-Carto.net
Par Agnès Stienne, Artiste, cartographe
L’appétence pour l’appropriation de terres — concentration, accaparement, accumulation — n’est pas un phénomène nouveau : il est la marque de la richesse et du pouvoir. Monarques, princes, aristocrates,…
Por Claudia Korol
El acceso a la tierra es uno de los problemas más graves que enfrentan las mujeres rurales en América Latina y en el mundo, y está en la base de muchos otros problemas “invisibles” para la sociedad. Sus consecuencias abarcan a todas las mujeres y en general, a la humanidad…
By David Kaimowitz, Director, Natural Resources and Climate Change, the Ford Foundation
At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris last year, the world’s governments agreed to work to keep global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius. The agreement sought to address a…
By Gina Cosentino, Social Development Specialist, World Bank and Climate Investment Funds
Everything old is new again, at least when it comes to searching for workable and proven solutions to addressing climate change. Indigenous peoples have developed, over time, innovative climate-smart…
Today Land Portal is launching a new qualitative dataset and infographic which shows how national laws measure up against the international standards on expropriation, compensation, and resettlement as established in Section 16 of the UN Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure…
Keynote speaker: Professor Hanoch Dagan (Tel-Aviv University):
Professor Dagan dedicated keynote address to Professor Dr. Van Der Walt, South African professor and renowned property law scholar, who passed away in November 2016
Professor Dagan's speech discussed the bridges between expropriation…
SESSION 4: FACTORS OF COMPENSATION; VALUE OF LAND
Dr Shai Stern (Dr. Shai Stern (Professor of Law, Bar-Ilan University)
Restoring Justice in Expropriation Law
There is general agreement on the concept of fair or just market value for compensation, yet this concept is based on different ideas of…