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FAO Survey: 'Stocktaking Landscape Initiatives Work by FAO and Partners'
Ethiopia: "Political will and skills development essential for good land governance"
By: Hasabe
Date: April 21st 2016
Source: New Business Ethiopia
The 2030 Agenda (Sustainable Development Goals) cannot be achieved without the introduction of modern land management systems accompanied by good land governance, Ethiopian President said.
Rwanda's regulatory environment in support of green urban development
By: Minnie Karanja
Date: May 5th 2016
Source: The New Times
According to the United Nations, the proportion of the world’s population living in urban areas is expected to reach 66 per cent by 2050. Best Practices have shown that the global “urbanization”, when properly managed, may drive the economic growth of a country. It is in this regard that the Government of Rwanda has decided to include measures related to urbanization as part of its policies and strategies.
Millions at risk of food insecurity in Central African Republic
WWF partners with logging company destroying "Pygmy” land
Date: May 25th 2016
Source: Survival
A French logging company and official partner of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is deforesting a huge area of rainforest in southeast Cameroon without the consent of local Baka “Pygmies” who have lived there and managed the land for generations, Survival International has learned.
Land rights, not land grabs, can help Africa feed itself
Nothing better sums up Africa's extraordinary mixture of challenges and opportunities than agriculture. On the one hand, Africa is home to one in four of the world's hungry and is the only continent which fails to grow enough food to meet its own needs.
Habitat III stakeholders offer vision of broad partnership for sustainable urbanization
By: Greg Scruggs
Date: June 10th 2016
Source: Citiscope
This week, national governments heard directly from civil society and others on what they’re hoping to see in the New Urban Agenda and beyond.
Land rights: ‘Our blood and sweat makes land fertile’ - Pakistan
Can we feed the world without cutting forests? Yes, says U.N.
By: Magdalena Mis
Date: 19 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Agriculture is the biggest driver of deforestation globally fuelled by a growing demand for food, yet it is possible to feed the world without cutting forests, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Monday.
Relatives of executed Philippine land rights activists hope campaign for justice will gain ally in President Duterte
Source: South China Morning Post
Author: Raissa Robles
Activists claim current laws governing mining and the rights of indigenous people contain gaping loopholes that firms exploit.
When 18-year-old Michelle Campos last saw her father, Dionel, they had little time to chat. He was busy with an uncle’s wake and Michelle was caught up celebrating her school foundation day.