Con el apoyo de USAID, una comunidad Afrocolombiana que ha vivido en el Caribe por generaciones recibió un título de tierras colectivo.

Por Mónica Parrilla (Greenpeace)

Ayer me fui a la cama con la mente a más 5500 km y unas 6 horas de diferencia respecto a la nuestra, en Montreal (Canadá). Allí seguía negociándose el futuro de la biodiversidad y por lo tanto nuestra propia salud, bienestar y seguridad: un Acuerdo que proteja la Biodiversidad de los próximos 10 años.

The failure to secure the property rights of rural communities shows a clear policy gap between citizens and rights to land as per the Constitution and the attitude and practices of the state, traditional leaders, white farmers and mining companies in relation to such rights. 

Absent from the discourse spurred by the motion passed in the National Assembly on 27 February is what could be achieved in the interim for land reform programme using existing legislation while the country awaits a verdict on the constitutional amendment to determine whether is possible to expropriate land w

For hundreds of years, pastoralists in Ethiopia’s lowlands have relied on strong customary land tenure systems to survive. Historically, legislation has failed to clearly define communal rights to rangelands, and the specific roles and responsibilities for both communities and local government to administer and manage these resources. This legislative deficiency prevented pastoral communities from fully exercising their constitutional rights to land (Ethiopia’s Constitution broadly recognizes pastoral communities’ right to access land and prevents their involuntary displacement).