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August 18, 2015 | MANILA, PHILIPPINES
Posted on August 17, 2015 09:34:00 PM
By Tzili Mor, Director of the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights
Women’s rights and customary wrongs
SEATTLE -- One of the greatest challenges facing women in much of the world is…
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World Forum on Access to Land (WFAL) 2016
Valencia, Spain
March 31st -April 2nd, 2016
WORLD FORUM ON ACCESS TO LAND (WFAL) 2016
Call for inputs - Opening of regional discussion phase
The goal of the WFAL 2016 call is to address the major issues linked to unequal access…
Via Global Landscapes Forum
2015 Photo Competition
This competition is part of the Global Landscapes Forum that will be convened in Paris in December 2015, parallel to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21).
The event…
Landesa is looking for a Senior Gender Land Tenure Specialist! Read more details about the vacancy on the Landesa website.
The deadline for applications is on September 21st.
The World Bank is pleased to invite abstract submissions for the 17th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty from March 14 to 18, 2016 in Washington D.C. under the theme of
Scaling up Responsible Land Governance: Examples, policies, and impact
With more than 1,000 participants…
USAID's Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Land Tenure and Property Rights launches today. Registration is open now through October 16.
The MOOC is free and open to current or future international development professionals, particularly those involved with USAID or U.S. Government foreign…
Via Euractiv.com
By: Georgi Gotev
SPECIAL REPORT/ In a wide-ranging exclusive interview, Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan shared his vision of how the EU and developing countries could greatly improve global food security togther, through innovation and sustainable farming practices.
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Via Euractiv.com
Par: Georgi Gotev
Dossier spécial. Le commissaire à l'agriculture, Phil Hogan, explique à EurActiv comment l'UE et les pays en développement pourraient améliorer la sécurité alimentaire dans le monde grâce à l'innovation et à l'agriculture durable.
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October 7, 2015, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, 7th Floor, Case Lounge
In October 2015, the Columbia Center of Sustainable Investment, together with the World Bank, will launch OpenLandContracts.org, an online, searchable and user-friendly database of publicly…
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By: Megan Rowling
BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous people and local communities lack legal rights to almost three quarters of their traditional lands, sparking social conflict and undermining international plans to curb poverty, hunger and climate change,…
Transparency International (TI) is the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption. Through more than 90 chapters worldwide and an international secretariat in Berlin, Germany, TI raises awareness of the damaging effects of corruption and works with partners in government…
The ever-rising demand for food and natural resources has caused a dramatic increase in land based investments in recent years. This increase has raised a number of issues and challenges for governments, international agencies and civil society to explore and address — the most burning of which…