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Empoderando a la mujer rural

19 Octubre 2021

 

publicado por: Eduardo Saldivia

 

A diferencia de otras zonas agropecuarias de nuestro país, en donde el monocultivo de soja abunda y el glifosato ataca directamente la salud de las personas y del suelo, en Misiones la chacra, una unidad productiva de subsistencia familiar, se impone como un espacio ideal para la siembra orgánica, esa que deja de lado los agroquímicos, y la permacultura, aquella donde la diversidad de cultivos enriquece la vida y respeta el ambiente. 

Securing land tenure in Uganda: A collaborative approach to address root causes of food insecurity

07 Octubre 2021
LisetteMeij

There is an immense pressure on land in Uganda. The country has a rapidly growing population and is host to the world’s third largest refugee population. Particularly poor people struggle to get access to healthy food. Agriculture practices need to become more efficient and focused on the domestic market. The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) in Uganda works to improve food security in selected areas in the country. Among several food security projects, the EKN works with the LAND-at-scale program to improve land governance.

Land rights for small producers: a critical solution to the world's food systems

16 Julio 2021
Dr. Agnes M. Kalibata
m.taylor

Our food systems are in urgent need of transformation, as humanity faces one of our biggest challenges yet; feeding a future population of 10 billion people with safe and nutritious food while keeping a healthy planet. Our food system has the power to tip the scales and transform the future of our planet and humankind.

Sharing land governance knowledge within the Dutch government through LAND-at-scale

06 Julio 2021
Maaike van den Berg

The main objective of the LAND-at-scale program is to directly strengthen essential land governance components for men, women and youth that have the potential to contribute to structural, just, sustainable and inclusive change at scale. An ambitious objective, that cannot be achieved in isolation. Alignment is, therefore, a key factor in all LAND-at-scale activities - be it at project level for our country interventions or through our collaborative approach to knowledge management.

Securing Land Rights for Female Farmers in India

27 Mayo 2021

By: Thais Bessa, gender advisor at Integrated Land and Resource Governance (ILRG). 


Purnima Kora is an ambitious farmer. She owns two small parcels of land that she purchased with her husband’s support and years of savings she earned from farming PepsiCo potatoes and rice, as well as by leveraging micro loans through a women’s self-help group. She also leases another half-acre plot to farm potatoes.  


The advantages and implications of "soft law" instruments like the VGGT

24 Mayo 2021
Louisa Jansen

Instruments like the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) are "voluntary", i.e., legally non-binding. These instruments are intended to have a direct influence on the governance of the tenure practice of states by providing an internationally recognized set of principles, and by simultaneously encouraging good practices.