Elinor Ostrom Award on Collective Governance of the Commons - 2021
04 February 2021
Nominations Open Now!
Deadline for Nomination - 28th February 2021
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Vacancy Announcement: ILC Global Rangelands Coordinator
05 August 2020
CALL FOR INDIVIDUALS AND/OR ORGANISATIONS INTERESTED IN COORDINATING ILC’S GLOBAL WORK ON RANGELANDS AND MOBILITY
DEADLINE 15 AUGUST 2020
TERMS OF REFERENCE
We are launching this call to mainstream ILC’s commitment in support of pastoralists, mobility and security of rangelands for land conflict prevention and ecosystem restoration
Colombian Police Shoot Indigenous People During Land Ceremony
11 May 2017
Colombia’s Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, ACIN, announced in a press release on Tuesday that recent police aggression involving a firearm resulted in one death and two injuries.
ACIN claims three police trucks approached a “Liberation of Mother Earth” action in Corinto, dedicated to promoting environmentalism and Indigenous people’s rights to their ancestral lands, and opened fire.
Blogs
Leaving no one behind — Why land rights must be the linchpin of sustainable development
By Andy White, Coordinator of the Rights and Resources Initiative
Community Land Protection and the SDGs
By Rachael Knight, Senior Advisor, Community Land Protection, Namati
Community owned forests in Mexico threatened by gangs, loggers, and the death of a collective spirit
Community owned forests in Mexico threatened by gangs, loggers, and the death of a collective spirit
By Julia Christian, Forest Governance Campaigner for FERN
Michoacán’s indigenous communities’ greatest resource is their forests. And they defend them with their lives.
Discussions
What can we do to achieve sustainable pro-poor land reform in South Africa?
Closed
18 November 2018 to 06 December 2018
Rick de Satge
Phuhlisani NPC
Land Portal Foundation
The Liberia Land Rights Act
Closed
19 July 2018 to 19 August 2018
Emmanuel Urey
Ali Kaba
Landesa - Rural Development Institute
Sustainable Development Institute
Rights Rice Foundation
Land Rights Now
Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI)
Oxfam International
Customary Land Recognition: Zambian Approach to Documentation and Administration
Closed
14 January 2018 to 05 February 2018
Andrew Chilombo
Matt Sommerville
United States Agency for International Development
Land Portal Foundation
Events
Women and Community Land Rights: Investing in Local Champions
16 June 2021
Online
Mokoro
International Land Coalition
Land Portal Foundation
People Centered Conservation
HakiMadini
Rolling back social and environmental safeguards in the name of COVID-19
18 February 2021
Online
United States
The webinar Rolling back social and environmental safeguards in the name of COVID-19., organized by Forest Peoples Programme, the Tenure Facility, Middlesex University, the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and the Land Portal, took place on Thursday, February 18, 2021 .
Forest Peoples Programme
Land Portal Foundation
The Tenure Facility
Land Forum 2020: Strengthening Governance and Land Tenure Rights as a Response to Climate Change
17 March 2020
University of Bern
Hallerstrasse 6
Bern
Switzerland
Indigenous people, local communities and family farmers play a critical role in stewarding and safeguarding the world’s lands and forests. Lands and forests managed by indigenous people and local communities have lower deforesta- tion rates, a higher carbon storage potential and a higher biodiversity than other lands, including protected areas.
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From Risk and Conflict to Peace and Prosperity
Reports & Research
January, 2017
Kenya
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Senegal
Brazil
Colombia
Peru
China
Indonesia
India
Amid the realities of major political turbulence, there was growing recognition in 2016 that the land rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities are key to ensuring peace and prosperity, economic development, sound investment, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Despite equivocation by governments, a critical mass of influential investors and companies now recognize the market rationale for respecting community land rights.
There are 211 content items of different types and languages related to commons on the Land Portal.
The term commons is most frequently used to refer to those natural resources that are held in common by a community.
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