Facilitating a Coordinated Response
By Grace Goodrich
In the second part of an exclusive with Africa Oil & Power, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s Director for Africa, Paul Akiwumi, discusses trade facilitation reforms, debt relief programs and Official Development Assistance as instruments of aid for Angola during COVID-19.
What role will trade facilitation and policy reforms play in helping reduce Angola’s dependence on fuel exports?
ILDC-2020: A brief overview of proceedings
India-Land and Development Conference (ILDC) – 2020 held in New Delhi from March 2 to 4 saw a lively debate on a wide range of issues relating to India’s land sector. More than 100 academicians, young researchers, activists and policy makers made their presentations in the conference spread across 34 thematic and two plenary sessions. More than 350 delegates participated in the event.
One Company’s Journey to Better Respect Land: Illovo Sugar Africa
Our sugar is made from sugarcane. And sugarcane is not planted in trees or in the air, it’s planted in the ground, in the soil, on land. It’s the bedrock of our investment.
—Illovo Land Champion
Women leaders protecting their land for the next generation
By Chris Hufstader
After an audacious land grab by a foreign company, indigenous women in a remote Cambodian village struggle to regain their farms and sacred sites.
Sol Preng remembers vividly the day in 2012 when bulldozers unexpectedly arrived on her family farm.
“The company came and cleared away our cashew trees right before the harvest,” she says. “I lost four hectares of land and all my cashew trees.”
We want peasants
This week in Geneva, the Human Rights Council is expected to take a position on the follow-up to a draft Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other Persons Working in Rural Areas. Five years after the start of the negotiations, we are at a turning point.
The Information Ecosystem: The Beginning of a Partnership for Action
After years of efforts, land rights are finally getting global attention. With several land-related indicators included in the Sustainable Development Goals, the land sector now has the unique opportunity to create an unprecedented momentum around land tenure issues and bring it to a higher level on the development agenda. Our goal is, of course, to contribute to the success of the SDGs, but also to be part of sustainable development in its real and practical sense!
Los campesinos que más nos alimentan, los que menos apoyo reciben
La política agrícola sigue sin garantizar los derechos de campesinas y campesinos. Sin acceso a tierra, muchos se ven obligados a migrar y a trabajar como jornaleras y jornaleros bajo condiciones laborales precarias y de semiesclavitud, problema ya denunciado en México pero que no ha sido atendido.
Eight land-related topics that need to be prioritized and urgently addressed in India
By Tim Hanstad, Co-Founder & Senior Advisor, Landesa
This is the second blog in a series of two that are based on a keynote address made at the 2018 India Land Development Conference.
Food Violence Shows Need for Both Development and Climate Resilience
In March, the Trump Administration released a new budget proposal that would cut funding to the Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development by 28 percent. The proposal also reduces funding to the United Nations for ongoing climate change efforts.
La famine comme politique contre les peuples
Date: 22 juin 2017
Source: NPA
Par: Paul Martial
La famine que connait l’Afrique met bien à mal « l’afro-optimisme » qui s’étale à longueur de pages des revues économiques libérales. Comment expliquer une telle tragédie ?
Une agro-industrie africaine aux mains du privé, un avenir radieux pour l'humanité ?
Date: 14 juin 2017
Source: Farmlandgrab.org
Par: Cécile Brajeul
L'agriculture africaine était au programme du mini G20 qui s'est tenu à Berlin les 12 et 13 juin. Mais la prépondérance donnée aux entreprises privées et au modèle productiviste alarme les ONG.