Recent large-scale investments in agricultural land that are coupled with irrigation present opportunities for increased food production in sub-Saharan Africa. However, to achieve this objective two management issues must be addressed: efficient water use in the face of a looming water scarcity and equity in the sharing of the resource between large-scale investors and smallholder farmers.

The recent phenomenon of large-scale acquisition of land for a variety of investment purposes has raised deep concerns over the food security, livelihood and socio-economic development of communities in many regions of the developing world. This study set out to investigate the food security outcomes of land acquisitions in northern Sierra Leone.

Food aid is a critical component of the global food system, particularly when emergency situations arise. For the first time, we evaluate the water footprint of food aid. To do this, we draw on food aid data from theWorld Food Programme and virtual water content estimates from WaterStat. We find that the total water footprint of food aid was 10 km3 in 2005, which represents approximately 0.5% of the water footprint of food trade and 2.0% of the water footprint of land grabbing (i.e., water appropriation associated with large agricultural land deals).

India and China are two similar developing countries with huge populations, rapid economic growth and limited natural resources, therefore facing the massive pressure of ensuring food security. In this paper, we will discuss the food security situations in these two countries by studying the historical changes of food supply-demand balance with the concept of agricultural land requirements for food (LRF) from 1963–2009. LRF of a country is a function of population, per capita consumption/diet, cropping yield and cropping intensity.

Using the 2009 round of the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey, this paper examines the medium-term impact of the land registration on investment behavior by households, particularly the adoption of soil conservation techniques and tree planting. It investigates whether men’s and women’s knowledge of their property rights under the land registration (as measured by answers to a list of questions regarding the provisions of the registration, covering such areas as tenure security, land transfer rights, and rights related to gender equity and inheritance) has an impact on these investments.

This report summarises provisional results of Myanmar’s 2014 population and housing census. (Main census results released in May 2015.) The provisional results provide the total population by sex and administrative unit, from national, state/region, district down to township level. It also shows the population sizes of Yangon, Mandalay and Nay Pyi Taw cities, as well as the state/region capitals. Other indicators included are sex ratio and population density.

Este documental recoge las experiencias de mujeres y asociaciones cubanas y vascas que apuestan por la Soberanía Alimentaria. Una alternativa construida sobre las bases de la justicia e igualdad que no podrá ser desarrollada sin tener en cuenta a las mujeres como protagonistas.

En el caso de Nicaragua, la tenencia de la tierra ha experimentado cambios significativos en su evolución. A lo largo de la historia del país, la intervención del Estado sobre la tierra ha sido evidente a través de varios procesos de cambio en el régimen de tenencia de la tierra en áreas rurales, en los cuales las mujeres, como sector de la población rural, casi no figuraron.

Las mujeres indígenas de pueblos de tierras bajas del país se declararon en estado de emergencia y anunciaron una primera marcha en demanda de la derogación de la Ley de Minería, se informó desde la Confederación Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas de Bolivia (CNAMIB).

La actividad de las grandes empresas extractivas mineras ha despojado a las mujeres de sus tierras y les ha dejado la contaminación de los suelos, los ríos, el aire y el entorno. Ha agredido su territorio cuerpo y su territorio social. Por supuesto, no sólo a ellas les ha ocurrido, pero es necesario referirse a los impactos sobre sus vidas, porque ellas son corazón de los territorios.