En septembre 2022, la Sierra Leone a promulgué de nouvelles lois sans précédent relatives au foncier, au climat et au développement durable - la loi sur les droits fonciers coutumiers 2022 et la loi sur la Commission foncière nationale 2022. Le webinaire s'est concentré sur le Customary Land Rights Act 2022(Loi sur les droits fonciers coutumiers 2022), et son pouvoir de transformation pour aider les communautés à protéger leurs droits fonciers et à poursuivre le développement durable. 

Du 6 au 18 novembre, le monde se réunit à Sharm el-Sheikh, en Égypte, pour la 2022e Conférence des Nations Unies sur le changement climatique (COP27), afin de discuter de l'agenda mondial sur le changement climatique.

Conversations sur le foncier et le climat

La semaine dernière, j'ai eu l'honneur d'animer une table ronde sur le thème "Suivi, preuves et données" pour Land Portal lors de l'événement du 10ème anniversaire des VGGT. 

The second webinar of the Whose Land? -  Inclusive Pathways to Land Governance series focused on the opportunities and constraints of civil society in advocating for more open land data and in harnessing its power for improved land governance. 

The Maasai community of Musul have lived on the same land in Laikipia county for generations. It is their source of food and water, the heart of their culture and beliefs, and their ancestral home. But until recently, their legal rights to govern it were tenuous.

There is an underlying tension in the land rights movement that is rarely addressed head on, which is the perception that securing women’s land rights threatens community land rights. Community land rights are typically held by indigenous people, small-scale and subsistence farmers, pastoralists, herders and many other groups who are directly dependent on land for their livelihoods but whose land tenure is often the most precarious.

By David Matsinhe for the Daily Maverick. 

Originally posted at: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-04-25-recipe-for-conflict-n...

In Jharkhand, eastern India, women are not entitled to own land and accusations of witchcraft are wielded against them to silence their claims to land

When Talabitti’s husband died in 2016, her claim to the family land seemed to die with him. Though her husband had worked the family land by himself, upon his death his male cousins laid their claim. If Talabitti attempted to make a competing claim, they threatened to drive her away – with violence, if necessary. Sadly, this threat materialized.

When Namati's Community Land Protection project in Sierra Leone's Paki Massabong Chiefdom came to a close, a 'handing over' ceremony was held. Along with village chiefs and local officials, a number of female community members stood to speak. Here are excerpts from what a few of these women shared.  

Written by Jagat Deuja and Rachel Knight for IIED and CSRC. Originally posted at: https://www.iied.org/helping-indigenous-communities-secure-land-rights-nepal

Main photo: Young 'social mobilisers' interviewed more than 2,700 landless or untenanted families and gathered the data that was needed for the government to register their tenure (Photo: copyright Kumar Thapa, CSRC)