By Peter Sangeyon, Gender and Land Champion, WOLTS Project Tanzania
From 1995 to 2005 I was the village chairman, and I was a ward councillor for ten years after that. I was very pleased when the community selected me to be a WOLTS gender and land champion.
Por Sindooi Limijo, Campeã de Gênero e Terra, Projeto WOLTS Tanzânia
Por Rosa Olokweni, Campeã de Gênero e Terra, Projeto WOLTS Tanzânia
Antes de a HakiMadini e a WOLTS chegarem a Mundarara, era como se as mulheres de nossa aldeia estivessem dormindo. Nenhuma de nós tinha conhecimento de nossos direitos à terra, muitas de nós eram maltratadas por nossos maridos e nunca falávamos em reuniões.
Many rural communities in Tanzania share similar challenges from mining companies and investors. I have seen first-hand how men and women gender and land champions can help.
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À medida que a humanidade se esforça para entender as causas e as consequências da crescente crise climática, pode haver uma tendência de simplificar as questões em uma tentativa de identificar soluções. Essas simplificações excessivas são resultado de uma análise abrangente que identifica toda a produção pecuária e os produtos de origem animal como os principais fatores de mudança climática.
There is an underlying tension in the land rights movement that is rarely addressed head on, which is the perception that securing women’s land rights threatens community land rights. Community land rights are typically held by indigenous people, small-scale and subsistence farmers, pastoralists, herders and many other groups who are directly dependent on land for their livelihoods but whose land tenure is often the most precarious.
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.
