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Romy leads the development of Land Portal's Country and Thematic portfolios, as well as the curation and ingestion of land-related publications and statistical datasets.
She is a communications specialist and policy advisor/project manager with 19 years of experience. She has worked previously with Embrapa (Brazil), CIFOR, FAO, GIZ, amongst other organizations on topics such as community forest management, payments for environmental services and agriculture & food security policy.
For the last 8 years her work has focused on land governance while as a project manager. In 2015 she supported the Global Donor Working Group on Land to advocate and secure SDG indicator 1.4.2 on land tenure security.
Romy holds a BA in Journalism from the Federal University of Pará, Brazil, and an MSc in Environmental Governance from the University of Freiburg, Germany.
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List of bibliographic references: Double dispossession? A history of land and mining in South Africa's former homelands
This list of bibliographic references is an accompanying piece to the data story written by Rick de Satgé and published by the Land Portal on 28 April 2022.
Double dispossession? A history of land and mining in South Africa's former homelands
This is the PDF version of an online data story published by Land Portal on 28 April 2022.
Colonial and apartheid land dispossession in South Africa was the most extensive of any country in sub-saharan Africa. Despite a land reform programme initiated after the transition to democracy in 1994, equitable access to land remains an unresolved question in both urban and rural areas.
List of Bibliographic References: A Story about Maize
This list of bibliographic references is an accompanying piece to the data story written by Daniel Hayward and published by the Land Portal on 12 May 2022.
A Story about Maize: Tracing a value chain from land-use to supermarket shelf
This is the PDF version of an online data story published by Land Portal on 12 May 2022.
Maize is a key global cash crop, produced in every continent except Antarctica. As a flex crop, it has multiple uses including for direct human consumption, as an ingredient for animal feed, as a key component in processed foods, or in ethanol production. According to figures from FAOSTAT, global production increased from 0.2 to 1.2 billion tons between 1961 and 2020.
Job Opportunity: Country Research Consultants for French and Spanish Speaking Countries
Supplemental Resource: Sample Business Enterprise Policies
This resource accompanies Phase 1, Task 1, Step 1 of the Model Guidebook for Business Enterprises. It provides examples of business enterprise policies that tend to promote socially responsible investing and work toward ensuring the equitable sharing of investment benefits by women and men in affected communities. At every level of the supply chain, and at every step of the investment process, responsible policies will reflect best practices and international standards discussed in the guidebook.
Environments
Corruption in Urban Planning: A Guide for Professional and Trainee Planners
Urban planners are entrusted with the power to make critically important, long-term decisions that determine the future development of cities and towns around the world. The decisions they take shape the urban environment and directly affect the lives and livelihoods of entire communities.
Are pastoralists and their livestock to blame for climate change?
This blog post is part of the series What to Read.
As humanity grapples with understanding the causes and consequences of the mounting climate crisis, there can be a tendency to oversimplify issues in a bid to identify solutions. Such oversimplifications have stemmed from a broad-brush analysis which identifies all livestock production and animal products as key drivers of climate change.
Data Story: What makes and breaks achieving women's tenure security
Over the past decade, the gender gap in land rights and therewith the importance of women’s tenure security has gained increasing awareness and momentum in many parts of the world. Despite numerous measures to support gender equality in land rights, rural and urban women continue to face numerous obstacles in accessing land whether through inheritance, transfers, or leases.
But what are the other factors - in their daily lives and particularly under customary law - affecting women's tenure security?