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Climatewash: The World Bank’s Fresh Offensive on Land Rights reveals how the Bank is appropriating climate commitments made at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to justify its multibillion-dollar initiative to “formalize” land tenure across the Global South.
Carbon projects often impact lands managed by communities with insecure or informal tenure rights, especially in Africa and Asia, where carbon markets are expanding rapidly. Nearly 80% of land managed by Indigenous Peoples and local communities in these regions lacks formal recognition.
The study on collective tenure rights and climate action in sub-Saharan Africa aims to consolidate and analyse the state of the evidence on how tenure arrangements – in particular collective ownership and management of forests operating in complex systems of contingent factors – impact forest con
Corruption is blocking progress towards a sustainable world
Au Burkina Faso, depuis ces trente dernières années, le foncier fait l’objet d’une attention particulière, tant au niveau des pouvoirs publics que des communautés villageoises, en raison de son importance stratégique pour le développement socioéconomique et la préservation de la paix sociale et d
Le Projet Global sur la « Promotion d’une Politique Foncière Responsable » (ProPFR) avec sa composante à Madagascar vise une amélioration de l’accès à la terre des populations rurales des régions Boeny et DIANA au travers l’adhésion volontaire à la procédure légale de sécurisation des droits indi
In August 2020, the UN-Habitat Sudan Country Programme and the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) published the “Darfur Land Administration Assessment: Analysis and Recommendations” report, developed in close cooperation with the United Nations Country Team of Sudan, the United Nations - African Uni
En Afrique de l’Ouest, les débats politiques autour du foncier mettent souvent en opposition deux modes d’accès à la terre et de rapports à la possession du sol : la coutume d’une part, organisant l’usage de la terre par une communauté en vertu de références sacrées, et la loi d’origine coloniale
Developing countries are increasingly focusing more on land policy as part of their development plans. Ghana created its National Land Policy in 1999 but hasn't updated it in over 25 years, despite significant changes in land governance.