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Campesinos colombianos vencen el miedo para regresar a tierras arrebatadas por paramilitares
Foreign investors often blamed for Africa land grabs conducted by local ruling elites
Quand l’égalité des droits favorise la sécurité alimentaire
Combler les inégalités entre les sexes dans l’agriculture est pour beaucoup indispensable dans la lutte contre la pauvreté et le renforcement de la sécurité alimentaire. Le changement climatique aggraverait aussi les conséquences de ces inégalités.
Why land rights may hold key to curbing drug smuggling in Central America
Governments in Central America rely on speedboats, surveillance planes, and militarized police forces to fight drug trafficking that has ravaged the isthmus in recent years. But a low-tech solution might offer another way to prevent smugglers: bolstering indigenous land rights.
Accaparement des terres au Cambodge : l’Union Européenne face à ses responsabilités
How effective have agricultural land tenure reforms been in Africa?
Land rights are widely agreed to be essential in motivating farmers to make short and long-term fixed investments in their farms – investments that will increase agricultural productivity, raise rural household incomes, and move the needle on the goal of alleviating global poverty.
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.
Equality for women (and girls!) is progress for all: Lydia’s story
Each year on March 8, the International Land Coalition (ILC) celebrates International Women's Day. The theme for 2014 is ‘Equality for women is progress for all’. The story of one young woman I met in Rwanda recently during a Learning Route organised by ILC and Procasur illustrates this theme perfectly.