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Land Portal Foundation administrative account
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Africa should deal with rapid urban population growth
Women's Major Group 'Disappointed and Outraged' At the Rio+20 Outcomes
[Worldwatch Institute/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX] Last week's Rio+20 Conference brought together 50,000 NGOs, policymakers, and activists from around the world to discuss sustainability. Unfortunately, many groups, including organizations that support reproductive health and women's rights, went home disappointed with the final outcome document, The Future We Want. In a statement released Sunday, the Women's Major Group (WMG) at Rio+20, which represented over 200 civil society women's organizations, expressed anger and frustration at the results of the final outcome document.
FAO-ILC Project Facilitates Access to Land Governance Resources
Rome, Italy - Information on land governance is critical factor for enabling developing and emerging economies to establish effective land tenure systems and ultimately ensure secure and equitable access to and control over land. To this end, the International Land Coalition, together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), today announce the integration of information on land from FAO databases accessible through the Land Portal, the global reference point for land related information on the internet.
RIO+20: Slum-dweller power
Associação Rural de Ajuda Mútua
Missão
Defender os direitos e interesses dos camponeses, contribuindo para o desenvolvimento associativo e comunitário, com vista a assegurar a posse e o uso sustentáveis da terra e dos recursos naturais às comunidades rurais.
Terra Institute
Mission: The mission of Terra Institute is to support community activities forsecuring equitable access to land and its sustainable use and for resolving related resource issues.
Goal: Terra supports knowledge and capacity building initiatives, action research and innovative methodologies for addressing asset based community development. Terra strengthens community linkages with governments, donors, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, trade and professional entities and for-profit organizations.
The UN Secretary General’s Zero Hunger Challenge
Meeting next week of the National Land Reform Council in India : at last?
After several years of inability to hold a meeting of the National Land Reform Council in India, things seem to be moving lately, under the pressure of different people's movements.Take a look at different articles published recently about this matter in different indian newspapers, follow the links :