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By Jolyne Sanjak
When land tenure experts like me write about the connection between land tenure and food security, we often focus on how secure rights to land tend to increase smallholder farmers’ productivity-enhancing investments. As studies in China, Thailand, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Ghana…
By Chris Jochnick, Landesa
Technology and social networks are the oft-cited parents of the sharing economy.
The two are largely credited with enabling us to trust strangers with our stuff, our homes and our lives – unlocking vast economic value in what was heretofore dead or underused…
Land is an incredibly valuable asset that represents many different things. Land is, first and foremost, a place to call home. For many, it also serves as a critical means of production that they depend on for their livelihoods. Finally, land is inextricably linked to a community's history and…
By Kaitlin Y. Cordes and Sam Szoke-Burke
How should governments address the concerns of their citizens tied to land investments? And do their legal obligations constrain their options for doing so?
These are increasingly complicated, and pressing, questions. The “land rush” since the turn of…
Forests are the lifeline and cultural heritage of at least 100 million indigenous peoples in Asia
The world’s remaining forests, the planet’s biodiversity, and rivers are found in indigenous peoples’ territories. However, rampant large-scale development projects without regard to the…
Par Aladji
Date: 28 mars 2016
Source: Radio Kankan
Aujourd’hui, à cause de la déforestation abusive de la forêt, l’humanité coure un grand danger. Chaque année, les méfaits de l’homme entraîne un recule de 7 millions d’hectares forestières et 50 millions d’hectares de terres forestières…
Source: Témoignages
Date: 23 mars 2016
Les forces agissant sur l’ensemble du monde de façon permanente ne sont pas prises en compte.
Tout d’abord le changement climatique. La conférence de Paris a pris des engagements pour la réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre et pour l’…
By Diana Suhardiman and Emily Koo
Laos has conceded a significant amount of land to foreign investors, with estimates placing 15% of the country’s land under foreign control. Such land concessions, or the granting of rights to land, are positioned by the government as critical to economic growth…
By Nicholas Tagliarino, Research Analyst at the World Resources Institute
Strong legal rights to land are crucial for Indigenous Peoples and local communities. When communities have weak or insecure land rights, such areas are particularly vulnerable to expropriation, land grabbing and…
By Linsday Ferris, Research Fellow at the Cadasta Foundation
Early this year, Cadasta Foundation and Open Knowledge announced a joint-initiative to explore open land data. Through sponsoring a fellowship, Cadasta and Open Knowledge aim to build consensus on the definition of open data in land…
By Sarah Weber & Kathleen Buckingham, World Resources Institute
Droughts and desertification fueled by deforestation, agricultural expansion and climate change have left African countries from the Sahel to the Congo Basin with sizable economic losses and little chance of food security. Roughly…
By Myrna Kay Cunningham Kain
In 2015, more than 500 million hectares of forests were held by indigenous peoples. Despite the increase in forest area designated for and owned by indigenous peoples in recent decades, governments still administer 60 percent of these forest areas while firms and…