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Land rights, not land grabs, can help Africa feed itself
Nothing better sums up Africa's extraordinary mixture of challenges and opportunities than agriculture. On the one hand, Africa is home to one in four of the world's hungry and is the only continent which fails to grow enough food to meet its own needs.
Equality for women (and girls!) is progress for all: Lydia’s story
Each year on March 8, the International Land Coalition (ILC) celebrates International Women's Day. The theme for 2014 is ‘Equality for women is progress for all’. The story of one young woman I met in Rwanda recently during a Learning Route organised by ILC and Procasur illustrates this theme perfectly.
Cultural Barriers in India Impede Women's Legal Right to Inherit Land
As their husbands, fathers, and brothers migrate to cities in search of work, women across India have become the backbone of the country's agricultural sector. Today, after decades of male urban migration, nearly 80 percent of all rural women in India labor in the fields.
Burundi : le code foncier n'intègre pas l'accès de la femme à la terre
Forest peoples urge land rights action
Forest people’s groups say many governments are failing to protect their right to their ancestral lands, and argue that this neglect is damaging efforts to slow climate change.
Foncier : la guerre est déclarée à la mairie de Thies, Mbacké et Diourbel
Le différend qui oppose le maire de Diourbel, Me Jacques Baudin et les conseillers municipaux est loin de connaitre son épilogue. Ainsi, il ont décidé de passer à la vitesse superieure en sollicitant l'arbitrage du chef de l'Etat.