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Affordable housing: SA role players urged to develop mechanisms to extend formal market and improve affordability at lower end
Although capital growth in South Africa's residential property market has slowed down in recent years, demand for residential property has remained strong at the lower end of the market. This has been driven by a shortage of housing and growing disposable income in less affluent households.
Read more at http://www.urbanlandmark.org.za/downloads/hsa_managing_urban_land_201302.pdf
Inclusive and Sustainable Territorial Governance for Food Security
The ILC Global Land Forum 2013 is taking place in Guatemala, a country that experienced radical transformation of its agricultural sector and rural landscape in recent past. After a 36-year civil war, Guatemala remains one of the poorest countries in Latin America, with over half of rural people and nearly two-thirds of indigenous peoples living in poverty. The focus of the Forum is on territoriality, which brings together power, society and space.
Boletín Tierra y Derechos, Año 3, Número 6
Tierra y Derechos es una iniciativa del Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES) que reúne y reflexiona sobre temas de actualidad en el Perú. En este número ofrece una reflexión sobre el problema de la extranjerización de la tierra en el Perú, y la confiscación de tierras para la ejecución de megaproyectos de riego. Incluye un listado de normas legales recientes sobre la temática rural.
Special Rapporteur urges phase-out of EU biofuel incentives
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
On 16 April the Special Rapporteur wrote to the European Commission, the Irish Presidency of the European Union, the permanent representations of EU member states in Geneva, and MEPs, on the subject of EU biofuels policy.
Precedent setting Rights of Nature case in Ecuador
The Condor Highland in South-eastern Ecuadorian Amazon, which is abundant in biodiversity and life, is threatened by copper mining. The open pit mine - Mirador - is the first of a potential 6 mines which has been granted a license even though socio-environmental studies show irreversible impacts on biodiversity and water.
If the mine goes ahead the present and future generations will inherit toxic rivers, extinct wildlife, degraded Sacred Natural Sites, and a destroyed culture and spirituality of indigenous peoples who have been living in the territory for thousands of years.
Land tenure is the central feature of REDD+ readiness
USAID identifies land tenure as the foundation for REDD+ success. As explained in a recent paper, global climate change cannot be addressed effectively without addressing land tenure and property rights systems. Read the entire article Here.
International Land Coalition Facility Supports Innovative and High Impact Interventions
The International Land Coalition announces a new initiative called the Facility in Support of Innovative and High Impact Targeted Interventions on the ground (FTI). This facility builds on the experience gained through a previous programme, ILCs Community Empowerment Facility (CEF), ‘which supported 52 small projects led by civil society organizations to apply innovative approaches that help the rural poor gain access to and control over land and other natural resources (for a total amount of USD3.5 million during the 1999-2009 period.
Open Access to Weather Data for International Development
Farming communities in Africa and South Asia are becoming increasingly vulnerable to shock as the effects of climate change become a reality. This increased vulnerability, however, comes at a time when improved technology makes critical information more accessible than ever before.
Primeras acciones de la REDIAGRO: Taller macroregional en Guadalupe La Libertad (Perú)
El pasado 7 de marzo tuvo lugar el taller macroregional "La información agraria como instrumento de apoyo a las políticas públicas sectoriales" desarrollado en Guadalupe La Libertad (Perú). El objectivo del taller fue dar a conocer las estrategias y acciones que están implementando a nivel central, regional y local sobre el acceso, difusión y uso de la información agraria especializada para atender las necesidades de información con énfasis en los pequeños y medianos productores agrarios.