The III Continental Summit of Indigenous Communication of Abya Yala will be officially presented at this year’s session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
MRLG, GIZ and IPSARD are pleased to announce that they will organize the first Mekong Region Land Forum in Hanoi, on 21st to 23rd of June
Indigenous and rural communities that use customary land tenure systems are among the least likely populations to have legal recognition of their rights to their lands and natural resources.
Según indicaciones de la FAO, más de 795 millones de personas en el mundo sufren de hambre, sobre todo en los países en vías de desarrollo. Esta situación no mejora a pesar de que la producción agrícola esté aumentando. El hambre es un problema de la distribución y del acceso a una alimentación adecuada.
Next Training: June 19-29, 2018
Location: Columbia University
Every two-three years, ILC organises the Global Land Forum (GLF).
Indigenous Peoples and rural communities occupy more than half of the world’s land, but they legally own just 10 percent of land globally.
In 2017, the fifth anniversary of the landmark Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGTs) highlighted successful integration of VGGT principles into national law and decision-making processes across several countries.
The Land & Accountability Research Centre (LARC) at the University of Cape Town commissioned the vivid documentary film This Land as a way for rural people to bring the untold story of their struggle for rights and accountability on communal land into urban forums of legislative, political and corporate decision-making.
