Terra Firma and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) are pleased to announce the launch of a new LAND-at-scale project: Scaling Community Land Rights Certification in Municipal Areas of Mozambique. The project started implementation this month (February 2024) in the rural hinterlands of four municipalities in Manica, Sofala and Zambezia provinces.

During the Conference for Land Policy in Africa (CLPA) which took place in Addis Ababa in November 2023, LAND-at-scale organised the side-event ''Climate-Resilient Land Use Planning as a Tool for Addressing Land Degradation''. The LAND-at-scale (LAS) project partners and their government constituencies from Mozambique, Rwanda and Uganda participated in person. The set-up of the session was dynamic with each country first ‘pitching’ how land use planning processes were important in their LAS interventions, and then the government representatives adding to that a perspective from government. In each of the countries, the LAS partners consisting of NGOs and UN organizations, work closely with national or district land use planning officers of the government in carrying out project activities.

As part of a scoping study titled Land Governance for Climate Resilience: A review and case studies from LAND-at-scale projects headed by Richard Sliuzas, Emeritus Professor, University of Twente, IOM explored how climate plays a role in the UN-led Saameynta Joint Programme in Somalia. In this context, climate change is increasingly recognized as a multiplier of insecurity and fragility, where climate-related sudden and slow-onset disasters are driving people to leave their land and migrate. While migrating allows people to find alternative livelihoods and enhance their climate resilience, it can also be associated with instances of maladaptation to climate change. As such, this case highlights durable solutions in climate-driven urban sprawl in Baidoa.  

As part of a scoping study titled Land Governance for Climate Resilience: A review and case studies from LAND-at-scale projects headed by Richard Sliuzas, Emeritus Professor, University of Twente, GLTN dove into the links between climate and land governance in the ‘’Scaling up community-based land registration and land use planning on customary land in Uganda’’ project. This case study highlights experiences from the community-based wetland management planning approach in Butaleja, Uganda, focusing on how the approach is addressing land governance issues and contributing to community climate resilience.

As part of a scoping study titled Land Governance for Climate Resilience: A review and case studies from LAND-at-scale projects headed by Richard Sliuzas, Emeritus Professor, University of Twente, CTV explored the links between climate and land governance in the LAND-at-scale project “Scaling Community Legal Literacy, Land Rights Certification and Climate Resilience in Mozambique”. This case study focusses on experiences from the Búzi District, where Cyclone Idai (March 2019) showed the need for proactive interventions in the land sector aimed at preparing districts and local communities to face and plan for severe climatic phenomena and their impacts, but also the challenges at making this link explicit. 

Desde una comunidad en el corazón de la crisis climática, la lideresa guaraní Mariela Melgar Ibáñez cree que las mujeres indígenas tienen la clave para resolver la crisis climática. “El mundo debe conocer nuestras formas de vida y el rol que tenemos dentro de el cuidado del medio ambiente; Las mujeres somos fundamentales, luchamos por el territorio.”

By TMG Research gGmbH

A Contribution by Jes Weigelt, Moritz Hauer & Frederike Klümper (TMG Research)

Land Rights and Gender Responsive Climate Action Seminar

Foto: Doug Greenberg/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0​)

As mudança climáticas são realmente a causa de conflitos e deslocamentos no Sahel? Essa história de dados explora o histórico de conflitos na região, a sobreposição com eventos climáticos e uma ampla gama de fatores institucionais para investigar este assunto. Os casos de Mali, Burkina Faso e Somália são usados como exemplos.

No dia de abertura da #COP28, organizamos um webinário, "Building Climate Resilience through Inclusive Land Governance" (Criando resiliência climática por meio da governança inclusiva da terra), que se aprofundou no papel crucial que a governança inclusiva desempenha na criação da resiliência climática.

Sob a direção da série Diálogos da Terra, o terceiro webinário deste ano, "Financiamento climático e COP28: Transformando promessas em ação" foi realizado em 28 de novembro de 2023. O webinário atraiu um pouco menos de 200 participantes e contou com palestrantes, desde líderes indígenas até doadores(as). A série é organizada por um consórcio de organizações, incluindo a Fundação Land Portal, a Fundação Thomson Reuters, a Fundação Ford e a Tenure Facility.

Dois anos depois que os(as) doadores(as) internacionais prometeram US$ 1,7 bilhão aos Povos Indígenas na COP26, ha um reconhecimento de seu papel crucial na proteção da biodiversidade e na captura de carbono. Houve um bom progresso na preparação dos sistemas necessários para que o dinheiro seja desembolsado.