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World's tropical forests and people imperiled by legal rollbacks under COVID-19
Threats against indigenous people and rainforests have risen during the coronavirus pandemic as governments have rolled back social and environmental safeguards to boost economic growth, land rights activists said on Thursday.
Governments in five countries with tropical forests have weakened legal safeguards to aid economic recovery, while expanding projects near native land, said a study by Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) and two universities.
Job Opportunity: Communications and Event Management Specialist
MRLG is hiring a Communications and Event Management for Specialist for the Mekong Region Land Forum 2021.
In Afghanistan’s Pashtun Heartland, Tribal Rule Supersedes State Law
(Main photo: A tribal jirga in the southeastern Afghan province of Khost)
Mohammad Ayaz lost two family members last summer in a clash with a rival family over an irrigation channel in southeastern Afghanistan.
Corporation to Develop Investment Projects on Public Landholdings
To Float bid to secure concept design for the projects
The newly established Land Bank and Development Corporation announced its plans to issue expression of interest to secure a concept design for a project that will be developed to investment projects on landholdings of federal government offices.
The competition will be launched for the redevelopment of federal landholdings in Addis Ababa located along the “Bole–Entoto” and “Lagar–city hall” strip.
FAO Vacancy announcement: Evaluation Specialist
Lesotho: Covid-19 Worsens Women Land Rights Violations in Lesotho
LOCKDOWN restrictions aimed at fighting the Covid-19 pandemic in Lesotho have had an unintended adverse negative impact of undermining women's customary land rights, a regional human rights body has found.
The organisation, Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA), said its research on the impact of Covid-19 on women's customary land rights and livelihoods in southern Africa found that lockdown restrictions had worsened violations of women's customary land rights in the region.
1,60,566 individuals, organisations grabbed 2.57 lakh acres of forest land
A total of 1,60,566 individuals and organisations have grabbed 2.57 lakh acres of forest land across the country.
Of the total forest land, 1.38 lakh acres are reserved forest area -- grabbed by 88,215 persons and organisations.
Forest Department submitted the statistics containing names of grabbers of forest land all over the country today at a meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on the ministry of environment, forest and climate change.
Webinar Recording: Contributing to SDGs Through Pro-poor Approaches for Strengthening Land Tenure During the COVID Pandemic
Representatives from Lantmäteriet, the Rwanda Land Management and Use Authority, and Cadasta Foundation shared experiences from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency-funded Advanced International Training Programme for Applied Land Governance. The discussion focused on how the training is being applied to improve efficiency and equity in land and resource rights of women and marginalized communities, in Rwanda and in the region.
Invitation to submit to a special issue publication on "Land Perspectives: People, Tenure, Planning, Tools, Space, and Health”
Good land administration helps to secure property tenures. It also protects the land rights of people (including individuals, communities, and the state) through good governance principles and practices. Therefore, probing land administration practices—whether in developed or developing countries—is essential to developing tools or methods for securing natural resource rights for people, especially for the youth and women. A broad knowledge gap exists on the land/water/forest–people–health–wellbeing nexus of natural resource administration research and practice.