Many rural communities in Tanzania share similar challenges from mining companies and investors. I have seen first-hand how men and women gender and land champions can help.
Ce dossier Quoi lire examine l'élevage dans les systèmes pastoraux et présente des recherches récentes qui examinent la relation entre les moyens de subsistance pastoraux et le changement climatique mondial.
Mark Duffield et Nicholas Stockton écrivent comment le pastoralisme de subsistance écologiquement durable et géré par la communauté en Somalie a été déplacé par l'élevage extractif militarisé. Contestant les récits dominants de la "sécheresse", Duffield et Stockton soutiennent que la crise actuelle est le résultat de décennies de mauvaises interventions de développement et d'aide qui ont favorisé l'appauvrissement et la faim.
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.
About 350 land actors from government, academia, civil society and business came together from more than 15 states and outside India to discuss and debate various land issues. In more than 30 sessions, about 150 speakers and panelists deliberated over 3 days around interdisciplinary land-conversations to generate important information and evidence for policy, practice and academics.
Ten important land messages that emerge from these land conversations are:
The Rangelands Initiative of the International Land Coalition (ILC) is drawing attention to rangelands and drylands at the highest levels, in order to find solutions to the challenges faced by local populations that live and work there, and to encourage appropriate investment including in securing land rights and good governance, building resilience to drought and other shocks or stresses, and increasing rangeland productivity.
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.
Date: 31 janvier 2017
Source: Mali Actu
Par C. L.
Colonisation, traditions, religion. Trois législations se disputent le marché de la terre en Afrique et font régner la loi du plus fort. Que disent les campagnes ?