Photo: CIAT/GeorginaSmith (Creative Commons)
Women play important roles in all smallholder farming systems. Advocates for women farmers often claim that “women produce 60-80% of the world’s food.” Occasionally, we are told that this statistic refers to food produced in developing countries, or…
Source: Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security
Written by Regina Laub and Susan Kaaria, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
It’s another typical day for Josephine Keremi. She’s up at sunrise, spends her morning scurrying around the house preparing meals, washing…
Source: WRI
Written by: Kathleen Buckingham
Last month, 40 nations agreed to restore 5 million hectares (12.4 million acres) of degraded lands and areas of low-quality bamboo production into productive, healthy bamboo forests at the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan’s (INBAR)…
Source: iied
Witten by:Thierry Berger
How can remote communities with little formal education hold investors to account and seek redress when their rights to land and resources are threatened? An IIED webinar examined the role of grievance mechanisms.
More than one billion people…
Source: Agro-Know
Between 14-15 of January 2015 we had two interesting people visiting Agro-Know: Laura Meggiolaro from Land Portal and Peter Mason from the Institute of Development Studies. The aim of their visit was to get to know the Agro-Know team better (this goes especially to Laura,…
Source: CIGIAR, dialogues
Blog post by Kiran Asher
As the time to unveil the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (2015) is drawing closer, scientists are adding their voices to the various state, public, and private entities focused on how to achieve these goals. As I am called upon to…
A lot of us who may come from the West assume that land rights certification, registration or titling are important attributes of any kind of land tenure or property rights system. We think of formal recording of land rights as essential to assuring farmers that they have land tenure…
A lot of us who may come from the West assume that land rights certification, registration or titling are important attributes of any kind of land tenure or property rights system. We think of formal recording of land rights as essential to assuring farmers that they have land tenure…
Muchos de los que venimos de Occidente asumimos que la certificación de derechos sobre la tierra, el registro y la titulación son atributos importantes de cualquier sistema de tenencia o derecho a la propiedad. Consideramos que el registro formal de los derechos sobre la tierra representa un…
Muchos de los que venimos de Occidente asumimos que la certificación de derechos sobre la tierra, el registro y la titulación son atributos importantes de cualquier sistema de tenencia o derecho a la propiedad. Consideramos que el registro formal de los derechos sobre la tierra representa un…
BY BARUANI MSHALE
It is well known that property rights, which govern how individuals can control, benefit from and transfer property, influence the condition of natural resources and environments around the world.
Yet there remains much to learn about the nature of that relationship…
Explicit inclusion of secure land rights for local communities and indigenous peoples is key to "leaving no one behind" in global Sustainable Development Goals.
This week in New York, representatives of United Nations member states will meet to discuss an ambitious new set of Sustainable…