By Grace Goodrich
In the second part of an exclusive with Africa Oil & Power, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s Director for Africa, Paul Akiwumi, discusses trade facilitation reforms, debt relief programs and Official Development Assistance as instruments of aid for Angola during COVID-19.
What role will trade facilitation and policy reforms play in helping reduce Angola’s dependence on fuel exports?
The Rangelands Initiative of the International Land Coalition (ILC) is drawing attention to rangelands and drylands at the highest levels, in order to find solutions to the challenges faced by local populations that live and work there, and to encourage appropriate investment including in securing land rights and good governance, building resilience to drought and other shocks or stresses, and increasing rangeland productivity.
Cosmas Milton Ochieng, an expert in natural resource governance and economic development in Africa, is the Director of the African Natural Resource Centre at the African Development Bank.
In collaboration with the African Union Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the African Development Bank will host the 3rd Edition of the Conference on Land Policy in Africa in Abidjan from 25 to 29 November 2019.
In this interview, Ochieng shares key insights into why the conference matters for Africa.
The Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the Amazon Biome map was produced by Imazon in order to contribute towards monitoring in the region. The methodology applied simultaneously generates mapping of deforestation and forest degradation [caused by logging activity and forest burning] using Landsat satellite images. Existing methods individually detect and map those processes, which can lead to overlaps in the results and increasing uncertainty in estimates of annual deforestation rates.
Trees have become an iconic image of environmentalism, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we should plant millions of them.
By Chris Hufstader
After an audacious land grab by a foreign company, indigenous women in a remote Cambodian village struggle to regain their farms and sacred sites.
Sol Preng remembers vividly the day in 2012 when bulldozers unexpectedly arrived on her family farm.
“The company came and cleared away our cashew trees right before the harvest,” she says. “I lost four hectares of land and all my cashew trees.”
The Santa Clara de Uchunya community has lived in a remote section of the Peruvian Amazon for generations. Like many indigenous groups, this community of the Shipibo-Konibo people have traditionally managed and relied on forests for hunting, fishing and natural resources.
But in 2014, someone started cutting down large sections of the community’s ancestral forests.
Autor: Washington Araújo, Brasil 24
Fonte: http://www.brasil247.com/redirecting/extra/number/303203
Não é mistério nem segredo algum saber da trágica realidade em que se acham aprisionados os povos indígenas no Brasil. O que causa indignação e espanto é o descaso com que têm sido tratados esses povos.
Autor: Maria Fernanda Ribeiro
Fonte: https://sustentabilidade.estadao.com.br/blogs/eu-na-floresta/lixo-nas-aldeias/
O acúmulo de lixo pelas aldeias indígenas e comunidades tradicionais da Amazônia é um problema que precisa ser encarado e discutido, pois é uma ameaça real à saúde dessas populações e ao meio ambiente.
