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3 Maio 2021
Advancing women’s land rights is a priority for the international development agenda. Yet, there is no consensus on which rights should be monitored and reported. Three indicators of women’s property rights are widely used in the literature. Each captures a different aspect of women’s land rights,…
Conflito em Moçambique e o maior projeto de investimento privado na África – Blog Terra em Transe ()
19 Abril 2021
Governo vem adotando posicionamento favorável à promoção dos interesses privados em detrimento do exercício do seu papel de proteger efetivamente os direitos das populações no país.
Por Isabella Lamas*
A violência armada de contestação do estado moçambicano, que teve início há três anos nas…
15 Abril 2021
Guest post by Wytske Chamberlain and Wegayehu Fitawek of Land Matrix Africa, hosted by the University of Pretoria
Remember the global riots over food set off by sharp spikes in commodity prices in 2008? The biofuel hype as THE solution to dirty oil? And the financial crisis that drove investors to…
30 Março 2021
Nzira Deus denuncia a usurpação de terras e a violência em Moçambique e compartilha estratégias feministas para a organização e transformação.
Por Nzira Deus
Em Moçambique, não é possível falar sobre as condições de vida em que se encontram as mulheres sem falar sobre a…
What role do local governance frameworks play in strengthening women’s voices in land governance? ()
8 Março 2021
Across East and West Africa, IIED and partners have been developing and testing approaches to strengthen women’s voices in local land governance. Philippine Sutz reflects on the role and impact of local governance frameworks as these approaches are implemented in different contexts.
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23 Fevereiro 2021
De Neusa Silva e João Peseiro Monteiro
O empoderamento das mulheres e o envolvimento dos jovens é fundamental para um continente africano que tem de aprender a viver consigo mesmo. A entrevista exclusiva, na íntegra, com a comissária da União Africana, a angolana Josefa Sacko.
Esta…
26 Janeiro 2021
Opening up land-related administrative data, combining it with data from other sources and processing and making this data available as easily accessible information for women and men equally could be a means to counteracting land corruption in land management, land administration and land…
21 Janeiro 2021
On January 24, 2020, a quiet revolution happened in South Africa. In a landmark ruling in the Durban High Court, 72-year old Agnes Sithole scored a legal victory that not only provided her a share of her husband’s estate but may also help to protect an estimated 400,000 black elderly women in South…
9 Dezembro 2020
Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain, and corrupt practices in the context of land administration and land management have come to be known as ‘land corruption.’ Unfortunately, land corruption is all too common, with one in every five people across the globe paying bribes to…
4 Dezembro 2020
For centuries, people around the world in the continents of Asia, Africa, Oceania and Latin America have been living off the forests and other natural resources to sustain their livelihoods, their cultural practices and sometimes even religious rituals. This “normality” continued even after the…
27 Novembro 2020
The parallels between Africa and China’s urbanisation trajectories could offer policymakers potential policy design lessons to learn from. For example, some of China’s recent successes in managing urbanisation, if adequately adapted to the unique and diverse African context, could potentially help…
17 Novembro 2020
Over 60 percent of Africans are under the age of 35 – a well-documented “youth bulge” representing both an enormous challenge and a tantalizing opportunity for the continent.
While 10-12 million young Africans enter the labor market each year, only 3.1 million formal wage jobs are generated, a…